>Horses
>Idols
>Anime girls
How did Japan succeed despite their terrible recent track record?

idc

Totally organic popularity

>>715058418 (OP)
>terrible recent track record
Didn't Nightrein just come out and was a massive success as well? Or do non-gacha games simply not exist for nu /v/?

>>715058564
They know nothing but coomer shit like Blacked Archive, Mihomo games, Azur Lane, etc.
Basically, they worship China and Korea because their girls have an incredible amount of cuck porn.

>>715058418 (OP)
Is this different to other gacha slop? And how?

Some shill or player explain

>>715058564
nu /v/ is mainly SEAmonkeys that can't run any new games on their core2duo 4 gb ram PC. So they only play skinnerbox games with anime girls on their phone.

>people surprised flavor of the month is flavor of the month
yaaawn

>>715058418 (OP)
Ephemeral eemender

>>715058418 (OP)
Can you romance the girls?

>>715058835
Why are brown and yellow SEAjeets like this???

>>715058418 (OP)
>roguelike about a mansion
literally what?

>>715058870
It's a brainless auto battler shilled by paid streamers.
Also if you fap to the porn of the girls, the yakuza go to your house and break your fingers.

>>715059052
they’re horses anon.

>>715058564
Japan hate campaign.

>>715059085
>It's a brainless auto battler shilled by paid streamers.
garbage as expected. forgotten in a few weeks
>Also if you fap to the porn of the girls, the yakuza go to your house and break your fingers.
that would be based

>>715058418 (OP)
This gacha came out in 2021, you moron.
Shit normies are gobbling up the memes and KAWAII.

>>715059052
They just want to fuck your brain out to ensure the next generation of horse girls.

>>715059063
Maybe it's Blue Prince. Journos love that shit for some reason.

>>715058418 (OP)
>taking over
>6k viewers on twitch right now
>30k players on steam right now
>taking over

>>715059448
It ironically gains traffic during burger hours instead of SEA.

>>715059448
Anon please.. that article is minutes old. At the time of it being posted there was 2 billion views on twitch and even more players on steam (steam data is bugged, so its not shown)

>>715059448
Shill fund ran out.

>>715059729
now it's just one japanese dude with over half of the total viewers and a bunch of vtubers

>>715058418 (OP)
And now that its popular all the yurifags and lgbt cultists will flood into it claiming every single character is gay.

>playing any game with japs
stop it
get some help

>>715059168
2025 has become the worst year for Japanese game haters

Kitasan nigger will kill the game

>flavor of the month is popular
whoa...

>>715060105
Well I'm sure half of them are a bunch of Koreans so irrelevant

>>715058418 (OP)
>game taking over Twitch and Steam
Translation: Heavily astroturfed

>>715059308
i have never seen that game mentioned a single time anywhere ever, but then again i don't listen to paid reviewers

horse girls are so cool

I've yet to see any proof of streamers being paid to shill the game.

>>715061078
Yeah sure because paid shills will reveal they are paid shills lol.

>>715058418 (OP)
>50k players
>taking over steam
those are team fortress 2 numbers

>taking over Steam
This is free to access.

>>715058549
It is. When the competition is Iron Heart and Last of Us Wokefied.

If you don't like anime shit, fight the woketards.

>>715061238
So it has taken over steam then?
I can't think of a more successful TF2 game except CS and Dota 2

>>715061404
GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!

>>715061307
Even Persona 5 X and Blue Archive have more players. This is pitiful.

>>715061404
Except it isn't popular. There's nothing to fight. PC gamers just aren't biting. People may be happy to watch their streamers play the thing, but they aren't playing it.

>>715061078
Asmongod is my dad, one night he was drunk and told me he was payed to shill it

>>715061497
Heres the thing, it doesn't need to be played to make money. Uma musume is literally a content giant.

Toys, Music, Merch, it's on mobile too. I played it for maybe 20 hours.
Yet I own 3 Goldship figurines.

>>715061760
are you the anon that made a post in an uma thread saying something like "i love everything about this game except actually playing it"? that really stuck with me.

>>715061237
Streamers put #ad in their titles to explicitly say they are being paid to promote something. Where are the proofs for uma?

>>715061760
...so it isn't taking over steam and twitch
what's the point of this thread?

>>715061491
Lying really is a chink virtue.

>>715061491
huh?

>>715058418 (OP)
It was fun at first but after winning your first few finals and building a roster, the gameplay loop kind of becomes a slog.

something like Palworld has over double the players of Umamusume right now, is it taking over steam twice as much?

>>715059238
That is extremely dangerous for the human male.

>>715061898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxcAXamuyR4

>>715058418 (OP)
>taking over Steam
>50k
Fucking Kek

>>715058418 (OP)
This shit is not even the FOTM game this month lol, its not taking over shit outside of being a meme game streamers will play because of their viewers and forget about after a week.

>>715058418 (OP)
Slow news day huh

>>715058418 (OP)
>free game
>currently number 57 on steam
What popularity are they talking about? I've never seen a more gaslit launch in my life.

>>715059085
>brainless auto battler
huh? At least call it autism menu simulator. Game doesn't have auto anywhere.

>>715064595
What about Automatic Training

>>715064739
There is no such thing? What?

>>715064828
There is on jp but it took them 4 years to get it

>>715058418 (OP)
Will be funny seeing this win mobile game of the year

>>715064916
ZZZ will probably win

>>715064916
It's like half a decade old

>>715064916
it came out on mobile years ago

>>715064893
>It has auto in 4 years
Ok
>>715064969
ZZZ lost to Balatro and it was when people were vaguely positive about it

>>715065032
This game came out like 2 weeks ago if I'm remembering correctly

People watched horse racing since forever

>>715058418 (OP)
>taking over
>can't even hit 100k players
yeah no

>>715058418 (OP)
>Five year old game suddenly got popular
Sick of seeing the anime equivalent of MLP now.

>>715058418 (OP)
I’m just waiting for Azur Promilia. That will be the next gacha game I play.

>>715059052
With the onsen ticket

>>715058418 (OP)
Astroturded FOTM lol

>>715064984
>>715065032
Reminder a DLC won GOTY previously. A rerelease can win easily.

>>715065505
The global server did, the game has been out in Japan for at least 4 years

>>715065784
The average normalfag won't bother with making a JP region apple ID or something so it went under their radars

>30k players
>taking over steam
huh..?

>>715058418 (OP)
Question: why this game took so long to get a global version?

>>715058418 (OP)
Not even FOTM material, the most inorganic shit Ive seen in awhile

>>715058418 (OP)
This shit will be completely forgotten about in 2 weeks.

>>715058418 (OP)
Nobody actually likes Chinese games. They tolerate them but ultimately want a real nipge.

>>715058870

>>715058418 (OP)
>>715058549
Whatever streamers they keep spamming.

>>715068626
>Blue archive having any learning curve

No matter if it's chinese, korean or japanese, gacha are not video games and should be quarantined to >>>/vmg/

>>715058870
it's basically monster rancher, but instead of cock fighting it's horse races.

>>715068075
It's 45k right now and will probably have a new all-time CCU in a couple hours. The playerbase craters when America sleeps because it's geoblocked in most of the world.

>>715068159
Cygames is retarded.

>>715068159
Basically no raising sims ever make it to the west which is why this game's success is so remarkable. Hopefully the success makes Namco localize Idolmaster.

>>715069834
woah... it's really... taking over steam now...

>>715069971
>Hopefully the success makes Namco localize Idolmaster.
no thanks nigger. play the jp version or stay away.

>>715070070
I imported a 360 to play it when you were in diapers you secondary gacha-nigger.

TRANNIES
JANNY TRANNIES

>>715070146
nah you sound like a globalcuck who can't read anything. only reason why you'd want localizations for im@s. tertiary nigger begging. go play them in japanese right now, they're readily available games.

>>715070017
The part of steam that actually matters (Americans), yes.

>>715058418 (OP)
This Japanese mlp not taking over shit

>>715070347
sorry type, i mean India and China

>>715058418 (OP)
this game is over 10 years old
it just came out in the west now

this shitty gacha isn't taking over anything, are you retards just that delusional?

>>715069971
>2016 + 9
>Wanting fucking IM@S to be localized

>>715069971
i fucking wish

>>715070934
>not wanting your waifu to say poggers and rizz
yikes

Pick one

>>715058549
fueled by yakuza bux to discordjeets. Total normalfag twitch game with the most generic characters ever.

>>715058418 (OP)
wow this a paid advert

>>715071009
Wait. It's LITERALLY Monster Rancher? Or was this particular format already well established?

>>715058418 (OP)
I travel to japan quite a bit and this was always popular with older men there. Why are americans finally talking about it? It's annoying when you faggots take over anything.

>>715072325
Its not quite the same, but if you like monster farm you should try the series that inspired it. The princess maker games are a lot of fun but difficult to get into at first. Skip the first if you decide to try.

>>715071019
Fuck off you balding tranny faggot.

>>715059168
It's by koreans. They love copying Japan but hate them so they have to put them down while copying them like a plagiarist.

>>715058835
>Azur Lane not with a funny insult
I see you Azurfag

>>715068626
Unironically very accurate.

>>715058418 (OP)
Inorganic

>>715072752
this but china unironically.

>>715058493
Umamusume is safer than most gacha games, especially games like Blue Archive or Nikke, because it was made to please Japanese keiba boomers who match American zoomers in their aversion to fanservice.

>>715073060
Inorganic

Yakuza funded "meme" marketing campaign trying to force a trend. The streamniggers and ecelebs and journalist articles got promotional money to try and force this meme, all traced back to Yakuza.

>>715069070
Careful, mods have banned me before for calling for this

>>715058418 (OP)
Uma musume looks gay. The girls aren't even hot.

>>715069971
That doesn't answer my question, I remember the game being an immediate success when it came out in Japan 4 years ago yet it wasn't immediately released in the west.

>>715058418 (OP)
Lol no

>>715074454
It was originally slated for a 2018 release with a tie-in anime alongside it. The game got delayed to 2021, but the anime went on as scheduled. The first season was your typical lighthearted cute girls show with a horse racing theme, but from the second season onward it switched focus to being a more serious sports anime that wore its real world inspiration on its sleeve. Season 2 was immensely well received and became the highest selling anime blu-ray of all time. The game came out after that and got a huge boost thanks to the shift in tone.

>>715075572
tl;dr they never expected the anime to make the game such a big hit so they likely had zero work done on the global release, is that it?

>>715075727
>they never expected the anime to make the game such a big hit
and they were clearly right

>>715075572
>Season 2 was immensely well received and became the highest selling anime blu-ray of all time.
I wonder how much of the sale was due to Cygames baiting Granblue players with whale rewards per 1 Bluray code.

>>715076058
You're probably right. If there's one thing that drives anime sales, it's purchase bonuses separate from the actual product being sold.

>>715058418 (OP)
It's all about the LORE. All the devs are keibafags.

When did this weird BA vs everything astroturfing start? I feel like one day I just saw everyone blaming BA for everything like some weird concentrated effort to turn people on the game.

>>715077434
A bunch of gacha launched on Steam at roughly the same time, and Blue Archive was one of them after getting delayed for a bit.

Sit down. Be humble.

>>715077434
BA players are just obnoxious so people like dunking on them
plus they shit on other games and get whiny about how their game is actually the most popular because they get the most porn

>>715058418 (OP)
>despite their terrible recent track record?
retard

>>715077434
blue archive has been shilled relentlessly for years and people are sick of it

>>715077556
this took over steam...

>>715077556
>Sit down. Be humble.
No, i even do a Barvh

>>715077434
Both games announced a steam port are more or less the same time. BA got delayed though

>>715073242
idc

>>715058418 (OP)
literally and unirocally what's the appeal?
this looks like it has less gameplay than Blue Archive or GFL2

>>715078479
Uma > BA > GF2 in terms of how much gameplay you actually participate in. Uma eventually gets full auto though.

>>715077556
The game no one talks about 6 months later, while we're raving over a 5 year old gacha? That one?

>>715064984
>>715065032
amogus won in 2020 even though it was release way before pandemic
jeff doesnt have conviction and will gladly change the rule just to let this win

>>715077556
Horsebros.............

>>715075572
Game came out on Feb 24, the anime was airing since Jan 5. The game boasted the anime not the other way round.

>>715058418 (OP)
>>715077556
Gacha niggas are pathetic kek, shit can't even reach numbers of shit games

>>715076058
The BD came with no whale rewards, just cosmetics and fancy skill animations.

>>715078479
>this looks like it has less gameplay
Each Uma is a blank slate. You run story mode to build a strong Uma.
During story mode, you pick which cards to equip. These cards have different abilities, skills, and effects.
You get a set number of turns before a mandatory race.
During these turns, you choose which stat to level. However, bonus events or debuffs may appear that you need to deal with. Each action takes one turn.
Once you complete story mode, you get a copy of that Uma with the results of your choices and the skills you gained during your run. This Uma can be used for PvP or to complete other events.
If you had a bad run, you can run story mode again and choose better paths depending on the events you get.
That's basically the gameplay loop. It goes much deeper than that, obviously, but that's the core of it.

>>715078815
Are you retarded? Every time there is a re-release everyone talks about the game again for a while, just this year that happened with Oblivion, Xenoblade X and Stellar Blade, no one is gonna give a shit about it after 6 months too

>>715058418 (OP)
normies/non degen streamers got into it since it isnt sexualized at all.

>>715078479
cookie clicker has more gameplay than blue archive

>>715079842
>just stop playing games because other people will move on after 6 months
What if I just want to play games? does that make you mad or something?

>>715080216
Ok? But we’re talking about popularity here

>>715080356
Umas are extremely popular and have been for years, I don't get your point.

>>715080439
And still they’re not even close to taking over steam nor twitch like the OP pic claimed so I don’t get the point of this thread

>>715058418 (OP)
I DID NOT CARE FOR THE HORSE GIRL GAME

>draw erotic horse girl
>yakuza at the front door

>>715080701
It was like number 5 on twitch a few days ago and it's second most popular release on steam as per Steamdb for the past 2 weeks. The popularity will die down for sure but OP is not incorrect.

I stopped playing when I heard the pink girl was unviable

>>715081510
Surely you realise that Twitch popularity is just down to who is playing it, not what is being played?
It's a middling launch that isn't notable in any capacity especially considering it's free.

>>715058418 (OP)
You listed the three reasons.

>>715082053
>it's not taking over!
>yes it is taking over but not because of what you think!

>>715058418 (OP)
It's actually funny how hard gooks got BTFO again.

>>715077434
BAniggers are the snoys of the gacha scene.

how much did I miss out on if I start today?

>>715083941
the steam version starts the server from the very beginning so you would lose on literally nothing

>>715058564
SEAsians love their gacha
/v/ is mostly SEAsians

>>715084203
wasn't there a week one promo that's over?

>>715081510
Right now it’s losing to shit like Nightreign which came out over an month ago and isn’t free, is Nightreign taking over steam?

>two runs already collapsed due to 5% failures both resulting in practice poor
Ah, it's going to be this fucking kind of day.

>>715084282
halfway over, but yes

>>715081510
and now it's top 29 on twitch, impressive, completely took over the platform guys, everyone is playing it!

>>715085783
so mad

>>715085968
>no argument
So you agree it's not taking over shit, good

Already beat the game with Bakushin, why keep playing?

>>715077434
>Mock constantly other franchise being low at Comiket
>Mocked Uma release date being next to BA, saying it will be DOA
>Think they are the savior of the otaku culture because they screech the cunny meme 24/7
>Think all the other communities are filled with normies and they are the only based one
wow i wonder why

>>715086052
you lost, sorry.

>>715086441
then go ahead and show us the twitch numbers right now since it took over twitch, go on, I'm waiting

>>715086552
so mad

>>715086369
And that was today's episode of things that never happened.
The BA hate is all astroturfed cause of cunny/anti loli shit, nothing more.

>>715086593
you lost, sorry.

>>715086706
>The BA hate is all astroturfed
next time don't constantly shill your gooky slop through attacking and trying to replace JP media
a mere 5 years ago i would have stood right beside you defending korean shit and acting like brothers in anime, but due to this behavior i would only cheer if korea and it's cultural relevancy go down in flames

>El Condor Pasa does the Jeb pose when she wins
HOLY FUCKING KINO

>>715059052
Some of them like Mayano or Super Creek clearly want your dick
Most of then have a slight crush on you
Others are completely hands off, formal relationship, like Bakushin

>>715087356
>Took over comiket
>BA girls all over train stations
It already replaced JP media.
You have lost.

>>715088205
>>Took over comiket
Also astroturfed lol.

>>715088205
too bad astroturfing and literal ads don't translate to sales

>>715061078
Vinny literally said he got paid, otherwise he wouldn't be playing that "putrid anime shit"

>>715058418 (OP)
i still have no idea why it's called a horse derby meanwhile the ones racing are just human girls. that's called a track run, not derby. they're not even racing on all 4s, they're just running like normal people

>>715059129
>they’re horses anon.
giving an animal girl horse ears doesnt make it a horse.
just like irl we dont consider those born with genetic mutations (like hairy face) animals

>>715059129
>they’re horses anon.
giving an anime girl horse ears and tail doesnt make it a horse.
just like irl we dont consider those born with genetic mutations (like hairy face) animals

>>715088891
says the man whose favorite game is chrono trigger