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What retired seasonal theme do you want to see return the most?
Picnic? Plegian? Hot Springs? Pirates? Phantom Thieves?

This one me thinks

>>532186465 (OP)
damn! that laguz can drive???

Not using an Edeltqrd thread

>>532186619
Picnic had SOUL. But I just know they'd fill it with Engage shit so maybe it's best it's dead

Flop status?

Did Engage really sell only 3000 copies in Japan during 2024?

>>532187259
I'd just like to clarify that the 3k figure is just physical copies in Japan in 2024.
Yes that figure is true though, in the entirety of 2024 Engage only sold 302l physical copies in Japan in the entire year of 2024, but that wasn't its total sales for 2024.
It is also true that this is less physical JP copies than Three Houses sold in 2024, 3781 copies.
It is also true that this is less physical JP copies than Shadows of Valentia sold in its second year in 2018, it sold 4050 copies.
https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/media-create-sales-cy-2024-2024-jan-01-2024-dec-29-new-used.3796/page-2#post-336469

Now you're probably expecting me to reveal its sale figures were actually really high in 2024... but the physical:digital split of Engage was about 50:50.
We know this because Nintendo reporting 430k copies sold in Japan by the end of March 2023, because the game did poorly there.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2023/230509_3e.pdf

The game had notoriously stopped selling at all by early March 2023, the last physical update was in late February where it was 203k.
https://www.gematsu.com/2023/03/famitsu-sales-2-27-23-3-5-23

So in reality, Engage likely sold 6000 copies total in Japan in 2024. But this would not be the full figure because you have to take global sales into account.
Engage sold 1.6 million globally, with 400k of that being Japanese sales. So Japanese were 1/4 of the game's sales. That means that in 2024 it sold around 24,000 copies globally.

Obviously, that is atrocious, but the claim of 3k is not entirely true.
Things that are true:
>Sold less than 3H in 2024.
>Worst long-term sales legs of any modern FE game - sold less in its second year than Shadows of Valentia did, in fact, of the modern Fire Emblem games Engage had the worst second year by far and its not even close (Three Houses sold 70k physical JP copies in its second year, Awakening 16k, Fates 15k, Valentia 4k.)

>>532187092
An Engage Picnic banner would probably just be them in their Somniel clothes, yeah.
And then a harmonic backpack of someone like Sakura.

>>532187328
Massive megami mammaries.

>>532187328
based rotom

the damage engage has done to this general is irreversible

>>532186465 (OP)
>Sorry for being sexy Summer Seia

>>532187381
>Does this mean Engage had a negative reception?
Overwhelming, yes. I would say "I would argue that it did" but the numbers when you look at them are actually really shocking and beyond arguing.
This is mainly because it had a bigger launch year than Valentia, Awakening and Fates but the worst second year by far. That only happens if a game gets a really awful reputation. The fact even a 5 year old 3H was outperforming it proves this isn't just a "Switch is dying" thing either.
~24k copies globally in its second year is genuinely abysmal for a Fire Emblem game, I don't have the numbers for the pre-Awakening entries but it is likely worse than most of those game's second year too. The drop-off is insanely. Oh right and that means the claim of seeing a >95% decline in sales in its second year is true too. It's actually more like >98%. And no this isn't normal at all. Three Houses for example sold 2.58 million in 2019 despite coming out mid year, and then was at around 3.5 million by the end of 2020, meaning its sales decline was like 60%.

So overall >>532173693 wasn't being entirely truthful, but the biggest liar is Raul by far. Engage's long term sales have been so bad it's hard to describe just how bad they've been. It's a clear indicator the game was nosediving post-March 2023 and had a poisonous word of mouth among people who did play it. Obviously the game still has fans but it's really had to understate how negative its reputation is more broadly. Is its negative reputation a bit unfair and overblown? I'd say so, because while being a flawed game I don't think it deserves a >98% decline in sales. But I'm just stating objectively what the numbers are and how most people received it.

tl;dr I wasted an hour typing this shit out and most people probably won't read it but I just thought it would be better if people had ACTUAL sales figures with evidence behind them rather than just saying shit. It exposes liars easily.

TRUTH NUKE: No one cared about Seidr until it was revealed she was Gullveig. Suddenly everyone claimed they always liked her.

>>532186465 (OP)
erm that steering wheel is on the wrong side

Citrinne is smoking hot. I'll give Engage that.

>>532187619
I cared, but only because I assumed she was Gullveig from the start. And if I was wrong, I wouldn't have cared about her. But that's because her being Gullveig gives her depth, while most OCs are as shallow as a drop of water.

>>532187619
THIS

Book 9 is a wet fart but at least it isn't as bad as Book 8

>>532188000
They did Rat-chan dirty

>>532188000
It's at least maybe kinda going somewhere now, since Baldr is changing sides.
By this point in Book 8, we were still at the base of the tree.

uhhh the other thread is picking pace! keep posting!

We must win!

*fires a kete flare*

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>>532188501
idiot motherfucker

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I don't have a pass so I can't spam the thread much

>>532189035
same

Try again during euro hours you can basically put anything in the OP and it'll stick

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>>532189303

fox love

mint chocolate chip alear

Loser post above me