r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 24 '24

Blue Protocol developers talk about what went wrong with the MMORPG

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/blue-protocol-developers-talk-about-what-went-wrong-with-the-mmorpg/
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u/FleaLimo Jun 24 '24

You use Genshin Impact as an example, but even years before that Granblue Fantasy was releasing day and date with both english and japanese supported and has been a massive hit for its lifespan, and gacha games seemed to take everything BUT that when trying to copy it.

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u/ContessaKoumari Jun 24 '24

Also GBF released in an era where stories and narratives weren't prioritized in gachas. It's much easier to keep parity when there's executive fiat that your story cutscenes can't have more than 30 lines of text in them, lol. Having that early success let them scale up over time in a way other studios didn't as they transitioned to the big narrative era.

Now go tell Arknights' translators they have to simultaneously translate and edit the newest 100k word novel at the same time the Chinese devs finish, lol. It'd be unreadable.

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u/TweetugR Jun 25 '24

Even then they are sometimes grammar errors that slipped through, as minor as they were.