The State of Fate Grand Order
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- I felt the need to push this one out given the general doom and gloom I've seen surrounding FGO's latest announcement on JP. In this video I talk about where FGO stands and how it got in this situation. As well why its ok to be upset but still be optimistic for the future of the game.
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One other thing mentioned by chat right after I stopped recording was also the potential FGO still has. They mentioned the recent jump from rank 145 (which we never should have been at) to rank 1 on the JP iOS store with Nito's release. Regardless I really wanted to get this video out to give you guys some food for thought in light of the recent doomposting. Thanks for watching as always! Don't forget to like the video and consider subscribing if you'd like more!
I mean, my perspective is as follows: They had a year to have LB7 done, and it's pretty clear that they barely scraped a pt1 together by Dec 25th: no banners, unfinished enemy animations, KP costume confirmed - but for pt2, etc. They said the banner issue was to avoid spoilers, fine, I can accept that excuse despite Dec winding up pretty light on new units as a result (a term which here means, no new units in Dec.) Giving more goodwill, enemy servant animations could also be obfuscating for the playable versions.
New years happens. Kirei's pretty cool, his first sprite's missing his crucifix necklace, but nbd. Nothing happens the rest of January in terms of new or rerun content to play. A little concerning, but it doesn't become actively problematic until the announcement for LB7-2 release when it becomes pretty clear that there's nothing but daily content to engage with all of Jan.
Nito Alter releases out of nowhere in the middle of the month, a unit who's clearly a story unit form 7-2 who hasn't yet appeared. I like Nito, but there's no way I'm rolling on a regular pool single SSR banner presumably like 6 days before a main story chapter with an accompanying banner comes out, so despite Nito being pretty neat, she may as well not be in the game for anyone looking to be thrifty with their quartz. Also, they clearly backtracked upon their unit spoiler statement, but nbd, the Lostbelt's gonna drop in a week because there's no other date left in the month that fits when they regularly release new content.
They make an announcement that 7-2 is going to drop at 8PM on Jan 31st JP time. What this tells me is that they're pretty close to having it ready, but they, as of right now, are not done, they are in crunch time and really don't expect it to be ready any earlier than the 30th. Nito's release was just so that they can have something ready mid-jan so the entire month wasn't just devoid of anything, so they released a single, relatively non-spoily unit who's an alter form of a unit we've had forever they they were honestly intending on releasing for the LB banners.
Essentially it seems they've had all hands on deck working on the Lostbelt all month so they literally don't have the staff to spare on setting up any time-filler campaign, even something as relatively simple as hunting quests just so that they can save face and meet their January deadline without having to appoligize to the community. This is inexcusable because realistically, both parts should have been done in December, they could timegate the LB and have the New Years campaign to essentially buy themselves a month of devtime to work on future content.
Instead it's clear that they're starting the year incredibly behind and will need to play catch-up going into February, which means less content for us the players and more crunchtime for the dev team themselves. The whole situation reeks of serious mismanagement and bad PR. Like, if they made a statement on the 10th saying they ran into development issues and would have 7-2 ready early February, threw us some apoligems and ran like hunting quests for a week, deadweek, then a bare-bones grail front v kadoc with rewards being blue prisms/teapots, the community may have been a little peeved but this whole thing would have gone over a lot better. Heck, if they knew they were in crunch, they could have just said that they were releasing 7-2 on the 31st from the onset.
They are more than one group of devs working on the same thing, so when one group finishes new characters for banners, and the other's couldn't work on LB bc pandemics you will have something like what is happening in JP right now.
@@Syokool i disagree with you, with the amount of money and popularity this game have using lack of people and pandemics as an excuse on how the game is terribly being handled is very naive to say the least, could use words beside naive but then i would be insulting you for real
You should be able to unlock everything with coin at bond 15 regardless of np level or rarity
if you go all the way to bond 15 on an ssr can you 120 an np 1 if you dont do and appends? each grail takes 30 coins i think
@@Wilderidoku nope, bond 15 gets you 180 coins, pulling 1 copy gives 90, which means you’ll be 30 coins short and stuck at lvl 118
@@thecrazyremy lol fml of course. Thanks for the maths
Can anyone explain why people are obsessed with the coin system? I get append, specifically on the 20% guage/Atk up as that can make or break certain farming strats (rarely tho tbh). But for the levels, is there really that big of a diff between 118 (F2P attainable) and 120? If you have been playing the game for a few years then you most likely already have all your class slots/niches filled considerably well (even for F2P). I get the satisfaction of making your servants stronger, but for the most part its unnecessary as you can beat all the games content with lvl 100 servants.. Its like.. yall do realize they are selling you something you dont really need right? And ik most of these gameplay complaints are coming from end game veterans with fully built rosters, while beginners can literally clear story easily by using any whale servant of their choice, until they get to end game.
@@jyon7168 stat wise I’d say it’s negligible. 120 is more about clout or a challenge. Currently I’m getting my ushi to 120 on jp and Parvati on na. I really like both characters and want to max them out purely for the satisfaction of saying I did it.
Daily reminder Lasengle's executive chief, Yoshinori Ono, had been previously kicked out of Capcom's fighting game division because he was doing a terrible job administering it
He ruined sf5
Would be nice if we finally had an backup system or accounts so we could actually pity roll with the assurance of some safety if we get a pity drop. Lose your device and your screwed, plus being able to play on multiple screen sizes would be a nice change of pace.
Backing up your one-time code is not REALLY a good safety net, with an account at least you could reissue or reset your code and password.
You can't do anything else with all those servants once their initial summon banner drops, no new interactions. Most servants aren't used as often as Farm enablers, since well this game tries to be grindy intentionally.
Honestly yeah, I felt really bad when I lost my first account cuz my phone broke. Yeah, it is my fault for not writing down my code instead of having it on my notepad but other gacha games like dokkan for example has super nice account security.
When I got a new phone i didnt realise that it would not transfer with everything else. However, i did not have a code. I was actually able to get my account back, as i had a basic list of all the servants on my account by talking to support.
Im still baffled they have a 1 time transfer code system. it makes ZERO sense why its still in place, bind email, apple, twitter, facebook, a simple username and password system. but they have the worst system the could possibly have and I've heard a million stories of people losing their accounts cause their phone broke or something like that. the lack of huge and simple quality of life in this game is so annoying. it feels like they are just 10 years behind the competition in certain aspects.
@@GoobieWoobie69 But they are and the game shows. Fgo is like, 7 years old and the lack of quality of life things than other gachas have is very noticeable. Together with the promises never fulfilled and failed systems (like the fou paws), i belive Lasengle don't know where to go with this game sometimes
Don't know, it sounds to me like they backed themselves into a corner, they could have solved their timing issues quickly by giving us re-runs and I wonder why they haven't.
the only thing I can think of is that since the re-runs make less money, the investors or someone decided they should take them down and concentrate on new events instead, and obviously with the new wave of COVID's tearing up their schedule, devs are now facing a number of problems instead.
Greed which pushes us to get the same damn servant back to back (looking at you Britomart)
Yeah it's 100% because of the money
They never should've scrapped reruns. I mean sure they make less money than the first go around, but it's still better than a dead months where they make barely anything and it can keep the player base somewhat busy and content.
There were lots of games and stuff delayed due to the covid, they had to choose between 1, 2 or more months of death gameplay and try to get back to the schedule, or start releasing things out of order.
There were several cases of people catching the covid in anime industry because they were forced to work while on pandemics, so you can't hardly blame them for not thinking ahead of the current situation.
Now, re releasing old banners imply the re run of older events, and people would still complain about it. Most JP players are looking forwarding new content, not balanced our proper gameplay. Japanese FGO streams are mostly about gacha pulls, not gameplay.
If dw could manage it with a budget then lasangle sure as hell could also. I also don't think that they have increased their earnings a lot since then. I'd argue that lb4 to lb5.5 were consistently peak times of fgo overall. Lb6 did create that hype as well for the time being but ever since it's been a downward spiral. They even scratched animation updates. Which was one of the most looked forward activities in the game. And was also a great way for old rerun banners to sell well. Release jalter update today and see the community going crazy. I don't know why they thought this was a bad strategy. If work management was the Reason then it's just stupid. Not to mention a lot of new SSR also have lower quality sprites and nps compared to before. Excluding only Anni units.
There has been quite a few anime production as well as voice actors getting hit by Covid so i wouldnt be surprised if it was an ongoing issue for the studio.
Hopefully they can get get back into the swing of things and get things sorted out, its not ideal but its not too bad to just take it slow and play some other games in the meantime.
Well you cant give excuses then proceed to say, you are not trying to give them excuses. To be honest it is what it is, nasu has implied a lack of staff for ages now, l remember reading his interview back when lansengle first joined, for a company with an IP this profitable, they shouldn't struggle with finding employees. If they are struggling, it simply means that they are giving awful terms/$ that chase away labour. Thats the only sensible explanation as to why they are still looking for labour. months in
That part where they are now hiring students also likely gives a hint, people at the start of there careers will put up with a lot of shit, skilled/exp labour wont. FGO needs professional devs tbh, not fucking interns!
A lot of this folds back into the one issue you brought up in your "list of things they need to improve": communication. Silence often looks guilty by nature gives plenty of room for the imagination to run wild. Even my current concerns regarding issues I gave with the game could be greatly mitigated if they actually opened their mouths and gave us some idea of what their actual plan is moving forward. One could speculate as to the reasons they haven't been more forthcoming, but therein lies the problem: silence invites speculation, and speculation rarely invites charity, especially when times are looking rough.
Anyone saying the game is going to die anytime soon is clearly wrong, but lets be real, FGO has serious problems that have been persistent for years at this point, and have yet to be addressed. The content drought has been absurd since lostbelt 5, where they start splitting the lostbelts into .1s and .2s or time gate it over three god damn months like lostbelt 6! We went from multiple singularities, all of the psudo-singularities, and the first 3 lostbelts being released per year, down to being lucky if it's one bit of main story per year, it's inexcusable. Also, no, the .5s don't cut it. There is nothing that gets said or revealed in them that couldn't have been done in an actual main story lostbelt. They are basically nothing more than main interlude events that span a good 3-4 weeks despite having at most 2 weeks worth of content.
Animation and unit model updates are practically non-existent anymore, with some of the older units in desperate need of them (looking at you Jeanne Alter). Even them, most of the once that have been done in "recent" times have been majorly phoned in, with minimal actual animation being done to the models in favor of weird jump cuts from one stance or attack to the next, which is very jarring and noticeable if you actually bother to put the game on normal speed even once to take a look; how Tesla turned out ok is frankly a miracle given the track record over the past couple years. Alongside the lack of animations is a lack of main interlude releases that new and old players alike could legitimately benefit from, either in the form of mats and prisms (for old players) to the old welfare servants and CEs for new players (Rider Kintoki and Golden Sumo are never getting re-released, let's be real at this point).
Events are dragged out to their absolute maximum duration, lasting a solid 2-3 when they have at most 2 weeks of content, and that's being generous. Despite that, we still end up with actual empty, dead weeks, where there is legit nothing to do. Farming free quests, are people serious?! That's just not relevant content AT ALL; the drop rates on mats have always been shit and the nodes so mind-numbingly dull anyone unironically considering this as relevant content needs serious help! Even the best of the dailies are barely worth running, and at a cost of 40 AP you have maybe 5 minutes of something to do, less if you farm as a slave to the meta and min turn everything. That isn't content, that's a chore.
The game's UI is horrendous, and is constantly requiring the player to flip between menu after menu for the most minor of things. Friend list refresh being on a timed delay for seemingly no reason at all. Friends on your list not showing up consistently if they haven't logged on in the last 5 minutes. Not being able to automatically use that same friend support when you select to repeat a quest node you're farming, only for them to disappear from your listed options when the game sends you back to that screen. Hell, we're not even allowed to NOT take a friend/story support in 99% of cases, for some reason? Why we're building up all these servants then, I have no idea, but sure, lets force people to not use their own characters, because that's a great design decision!/s So many baffling UI and system design decisions that have been around since the game's launch are still prevalent, and are unlikely to ever be fixed seeing as they haven't been fixed in 7 years.
Servant upgrade systems that are just annoying to deal with. To the game's credit, command codes have been improved, so there's that. The coin system still sucks though, especially for the limited and story locked 3* and 4* servants, and hell 4* servants in general, given there is no 4* pity system. But the fou paws... why is that even a system as it stands?! For how little of an increment each paw does, their rate of acquisition is incredibly asinine. How that system has remained untouched for years is astounding, because it is in serious need of an overhaul.
Missing features that are standard in most (if not all) other gacha games. No alternative game modes like a monthly challenge tower. A permanent Setsubun-event style tower, or hell, even a grail front game mode, imperfect as it is, could deal with this issue, but to this day shit has yet to be added. No access to old events outside of specific re-runs (which is what the Main Interlude system should have fixed by now). The game doesn't even have story replay 7 years into it's life! This is a story based game; everyone does everything in this game for the sake of the main and side stories, and the game lacks story replay, of all things! Considering that, forget ever having some kind of new game+ mode for the older stories either. And to all the people who say it wouldn't make sense because "lore", they have access to a simulator that creates all kinds of whacky shit in-narrative, so that is NOT a valid excuse!
Hell, who even knows if they're still trying to seriously get a multiplayer mode going for this game, which, if they are, is a whole other can of worms...
No, the game won't die anytime soon; the FATE IP is strong enough to carry the actual game itself, and new characters will continue to make them fistfuls of money so it's not going to be unprofitable for a long, long time. But if people are being honest, no one would play this game if it wasn't for the FATE IP being plastered over it (hence why DW's other title flopped, let's be real here). It IS that bad. It IS that barebones. It has been that way for years, and it will continue to be this way for years to come, if not the rest of it's life.
Man, a permanent monthly tower game mode would be amazing. It's the perfect solution for the many dead weeks we get for both JP and NA. It would also solve the problem of "I have 100+ servants but I only ever need to use 10-20 of them".
make the monthly part of the tower and grail front only for the reward so you can replay them how many times you like
Just putting in my two cents, I think a lot of people would totally go for themed welfare events, much like they did with the various Liz welfares from the Halloween Trilogy.
Some themes wouldn't even require much of an excuse plot, such as Guda Guda, Summer, and Christmas. Given how well it sounds like Halloween 2021 was received, they might even be able to get away with making those into month-long events, too.
Just off the cuff, maybe Lasengle could also put together some sort of Heian-themed event where players could get Kintoki (Rider), Shuten (Caster), and Kiichi Hogen, though I feel like that's getting into highly speculative territory.
Am gonna be honest, I didnt even know people were mad at them xddd I am just waiting and saving for part 2 to come out. Been playing NA since day 1 and JP since LB3, and I dont see myself dropping the game because of something like this.
Yeah, you would enjoy it the same bc the profile and the novel's story are very different. Ppl have way too much free time.
I feel like anyone who plays NA or any server other than JP has a right to complain. That's my hot take. JP has been the love child also I feel like as a new player having a decent amount of dead time gives them time to enjoy the main story other than going from event to event. Also have a friendly way to bring back welfare servants it's kinda crazy that fgo still has this outdated fomo approach.
The fact people can be optimistic for anything Lasagna does going forward is interesting, to say the least.
Better than the pre lasengne days tbh
@AkiraDKCN disagree, even as DW they never gave me a reason to be optimistic or believe on their ability to update and improve the game.
Servent coins were the nail on the coffin on that for me.
Umm basically I don't remember dw waiting a whole month for a new event for us masters to gather much needed mats for our servants but also Lasengle is about a year (edit, minus 2 months) due for AUs aside from NA's early batch
If anything, we might hear from lasengle regarding the new year month, but this is something they can learn from. But both have had a good share of updates to the game. I'd say give it another year with them to get the bigger picture of it but so far I can't really give an opinion on it
Indeed a bit concerning. I love this game, I love the Nasuverse, Fate is my favorite franchise. I've probably spent around 10k on this game, I love the characters so much. But I've always felt like they didn't really put effort into anything besides story. The QoL, Graphics, Pity, and a lot more is VERY behind modern gachas. It does feel like they started turning that around a bit with Lasengle, but it seems they have run into some issues now. I'll continue to support and play FGO, and I sincerely hope that they will do better in the future.
Like you said it isn't the first time they stretch time. 2020 were full of this. Just think back at the 3 week Summer 4 Rerun. On the other hand it could be a sign that with Lb7 Part 2 we could get so much contant that everyone will forgett this Dead month.
I also don't think it's good that we don't get reruns. Not only because of the RPs. It's just relaxing to have an Event where you now what you must so and do it in your own pace.
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I am more worried about where FGO is going to go after part 2 is done, because it took me a lot of effort and time to build up my account (NA) and i hope it won´t end in 2 or so years, because my biggest fgo regret is that I rushed through part 1 and large parts of Part 2 (Basically until after SIN) with a shit line up and couldn´t really enjoy the game.
Still waiting for a single new full animation update since Tesla
As a new player of barely 2 months on NA, this will mean I'll come to a halt soon. I punched through Act 1 within 1,5 month. Luckily I still have a lot of story left, but seeing the rate I'm going(maybe a bit slower since the coming nodes might be harder), there's not going to be much left after this summer for me except events...
I wish there were more ways to get gold fou cards.
I know the last Append skill is supposed to be lore related, and I can see that, but I would have loved it if wasn't limited to class.
For example, Orion, Proto Cu, and other hunters could have gotten a wild beast damage mod, Gilgamesh could have gotten a servant damage mod, King Hassan should have gotten more damage to Hassans/Assassins or something.
The first and second append skills are good, but I think they could've done something a little more with the 3rd one?
The 3rd append skill enables your character as a pseudo class after their own class.
Having them the ability to bypass all other classes sounds pretty stupid and something that could eventually be make the gameplay less fun to play.
There's a reason why they have a specific class oriented for their 3rd append.
Adding another two wordy cents, if Lasengle actually stops doing reruns and main interludes, I wonder how that might affect the NA schedule two years down the line so as to fit things around the relatively early anniversary.
Up through the 5th anniversary, it seems NA has simply delayed the last event before the anniversary (which has always been a rerun) to ensure the anniversary would run the first week of July (which also helps with pacing out events somewhat evenly). This works out because reruns don't introduce any new limited SSRs, who need to be added to the game before they can appear on the anniversary's GSSR.
Next year, NA can probably delay the Ooku Main Interlude until after 7th Anniversary without major issues, but if JP doesn't have any reruns or main interludes between now and the 8th anniversary, NA might have to make some painful choices come 2025. They _will_ have to make some marginally painful choices _this_ year, since the last event before the anniversary (LB6 part 2) introduces limited SSR Melusine, so it probably can't be delayed unless they alter the GSSR.
Totally agree on the COVID theory regarding the delay of the next chapter. Multiple anime have been put on hold indefinitely for the same reason. Apparently in Japan certain materials and development tools can only be accessed on office workstations due to strict rules, so certain steps cannot be done with remote work.
It also hit China hard and a lot of stuff outsourced there.
Rare mana prisims has always been a frustrated thing to deal with as a non whale. Well I did whale before but I'm not a hardcore whale. But thats not the point here. I always thought that the devs should give us more accessibility for Rare prisims during events as mission rewards (Like the mission progression during little big tengu in NA). Hell even giving us Rare prisims through 5 star bond rewards would be a better improvement instead of burnning our 5 stars to get them. Which no one would unless they are np 5.
I also think that Heian-Kyo, Tunguska and Traüm count as main story chapters, they are not like imaginary scramble or Ooku where you could just skip and it wouldn't be a problem, you can't just have the battle with Douman in Olympus and just have him disappear for no reason by skipping Heian-Kyo, the same for Koyanskaya and Tunguska, as well as Holmes and Traüm. They are fully fledged main story chapters so I think the pacing of main story chapters being every 6 months isn't really a problem for me personally, the problem with Mictlan is more that the servants feel unfinished and the people responsible for it seem to be lying ( the whole no new servants because spoiler thing, meanwhile they drop a totally spoiling servant when their ranking gets low despite having a good bulk of already shown potential servants )
To be honest, it wasn't that "spoilers" when you read the story and was obvious what would happen....
And seeing how toxic some fans are, gladly is the minority but they are loud (the western fans of course), if FGO launchs Nito Alter between the new servants banner people would be complaing about too many servants to roll in the same week....
@@hikari9807 yeah, I get that and it could be that way since they're clustering themselves with those void weeks.
Game is clearly fine doing whatever at as slow a pace as possible because they know the IP is far too massive for its loyal fans to care enough to vote with their wallets.
Yup. People stay attached to ips no matter what happend.
@@uyeah1234 also as time goes on people invest more resources and get even more attached Lasengle knows this all too well
Nah I love fate more than life but I'm switching to granblue till the non mobile games come out.
5.1-5.2 isn't really the same as lb 6 and 7 being partitioned out 5.1 is for the most part a self contained chapter LB 6 and LB 7 by comparison are like 1/3rd of a chapter getting implemented then you being told to wait. I don't mind delays but personally I'd rather just not even get a 7.1 till it's ready. Just give me a rerun or something especially when they held nito for no spoilers but then dropped her 2 weeks later. I'm not resentful though.
I'm fine with delays as long as the content is quality when it does come out. I have a bunch of other games I'd love to have time to play and stuff I'd like to spend money on instead of gacha.
I don't think the lb 7 situation is comparable to lb5.1 and lb5.2, it's more like if they took Atlantis OR Olympus and split it in half.
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Look, Lasengle is in the hands on Ono now and as a fighting game player I am concerned
Let's not forget that every welfare Servant released prior to Case Files' rerun is screwed with coins, even if you take them to bond 15. (With bond 15 you have enough coins to either unlock just one append or take the unit to level 112)
So is it really so hard to make these events available again through the MP shop by making it cost 1000 MP or even making it cost 5 RP at the RP shop?
Yeah, maybe a lot of people in lasagne were on leave this new year and extended, but idk.
I'm in a totally different field from game development, I couldn't probably help them out effectively even if I wanted to.
They probably could have giving JP some interludes, strengthenings or those mats on daily rotation thingies, now it gives them the look from the outside of them being a bit lazy, probably from the inside that isn't the case.
Kinda strange there isn't any banner for those new LB7 servants out yet, are they really that delayed or under pressure?
Hopefully they'll give us an in-depth update on this one day.
The problem ISN'T that LB7.2 got delayed. The problem is that they didn't fill the entire month with anything to do in the in-between. Log-in campaigns & summon banners are NOT content.
But.... You know a lot of players have other gacha games to play too right? Other games to do, have a job, travel, etc.... FGO knows that and that is why January is a good month to have a "dead month", that could be easily translated to "relax", "farm qp if you want", etc etc
@hikari9807 So essentially, just do something else? Oh yes, the good old "I don't actually have a response to the criticism" response.
@@Noisemaze1 imagine using that as excuse while I literally said why they do that, but since you don't think about marketing and the players "lifestyle", I think you will never get it right? lol
That is why I focus on the JP side of the fanbase *sigh*
But probably you skipped the story of LB7 Part 1 and don't farm to upgrade servants, then complain about lack of materials, sadly some people from the western fanbase don't know the difference between valid criticism and toxicity
@hikari9807 And now we move to personal attacks LOL! OK, buddy.
I waited a week to play LB7.1 in order to be able to read the whole story at my own pace due to the holidays & I've leveled every single one of my servants, including Kirei & Nitocris Alter. You're not adding anything to the conversation other than "Do something else." so I'm done.
Also, if I were you, I'd stop acting like you know strangers online because of a UA-cam comment you didn't agree with.
@@Noisemaze1 personal attacks? I literally explained why they are doing it, for what I am seeing, that is a western toxic fanbase problem that complain everytime.
Like I said, FGO knows their fanbase, knows that people play other things and have other things to do, the best time to have a "dead month" is now.
But congrats, having all servant leveled up is amazing.
There are so many servants but the rates are so bad even for 4stars so we mostly get CEs as guaranteed from multipulls. I'm a week 1 player and I only have Emiya archer and Lancelot berserker as my only NP5. I don't much care about some changes or main story release, but even the rates for 4star servants could help.
They did make the solo rate up sr rate higher recently so it's a lot more likely you'll get an np5 of a 4 star if you're rolling for an np1 or 2 ssr.
@black1 blade I believe their point was was the rate of 4 stars should be increased, increasing the rate up of a specific one doesn't help if you can't even roll a 4 star to begin with.
I think what I'm expecting for the future might be a tie in to the fgo universe's Tsukihime tale ( or should I say something that involves dead apostles, true ancestors and archetype earth ) as Tunguska's end was rather interesting.
i get having set back.
but having no event not even a rerun or mini rerun for a month plus is just bad.
new servants aren't really game content.
and fgo doesn't even have boss rush or any other type of game you can do.
just daily chore quest.
I'll be honest, I'm nervous. i love fgo and i exclusively play na, so what concerns me is that in the event that fgo jp is heading towards shutdown, that it will affect na. hearing you keep a level head about all this is very reassuring tho
A bit late but don't be too scared about Jp shutting down. The people that says that they are quitting aren't the majority of players, and even with all these troubles, fgo is doing well.
If they were going to gonthe entire month of January with no content, I don't know why they didn't just rerun something
I respect the main interlude prospect and wish they give a way to obtain old welfare servants as well but the thing with main interlude is that they are events that directly tie in to the main story with :
_Seraph being a type of pseudo singularity withing part 1.5
_Ooku being lb3.5
_Imaginary Scramble being lb4.5
_Altera santa's event being a tie in to Babylonia
Yeah, but people think that's not good enough. We understand that it's been "story relevant" Events so far... but that still means that there are things like Onigashima being missed out, despite the Oni-era Servants being very common, and tied into main stories (LB5.5, primarily). Maybe don't call them Main Interludes - they've added Bunyan and Prison Tower without having to call them "Main".
People don't care what they're called, they just want to get access to that old, old content. Like other games do.
So Arcueid really was a desperate haymaker
They really shouldn’t have scrapped re-runs
They're still doing them, but certainly not as much and I think its really poignant right now with how January went on JP.
FGO subreddit: "THE STATE OF ~NA~ JP"
I don't like some people using the whole "fgo can jump to #1 on appstore whenever it wants to so its fine" argument against any criticism of the game,
cause if you use that logic games like madden and fifa that are constantly in the top 10 games sold per month(not to mention the microtransactions) should be some of the best highest quality games on the market.
I do think there is still some reason to feel good. But it does feel like they’ve got some real issues to work through.
They are taking some heat and probably should be. The issues with the welfares, the servant coins, the stalling, etc.
I don’t think it’s all disasters. But it’s in a shaky spot. Hopefully they get it sorted out. Because once you start annoying people too much it can be a concern. There is a limit in how much they’ll take.
Make it fun to play with friends. That'll help a lot. Make a guild system or something.
They scraped reruns to try and money grub but they must of cost nothing while making something and filling in time.
To much of the game is whale focused.
Coins suck particularly for limited 3 stars that you already have. No way am I rolling again for arsisepilse and caster Cu but not having coins for them sucks.
No main Interlude anymore, no animation update, cut up main story, full on dead months. The writing is on the wall. They are running this game In the ground
Yes they are, that is why there are a lot of people Hyped for LB7 part 2, but then you use as an example of the western fanbase that sadly is toxic and complain about anything lol, game literally doing better than other years but the toxic "fans" try to say otherwise www
@@hikari9807 how is the game doing better than "other years" in terms of the amount of content released or the quality of it
@@theunchosenone4610 amount of content isn't the same as better, literally FGO knows that most of the playerbase play other gacha and other games, they know January is a packed month and that is a good way to players have a chill time while waiting for LB7 Part 2, that is why in the livestreams they promoted other Type Moon games that are on sale and a lot of people bought.
And the quality of it? Literally having really good and interesting events, new servants and good story/music.
@hikari9807 my brother in Christ, Fgo has been in this state before Januar, do you remember when the last animation update was, March 2022 Nikola Tesla
@@theunchosenone4610 sorry to say that to you but..... Do you think most of players care about animation update or a new servant? Just think a bit.....
They should never rush teh story of the game. I don't care what anyone says. Regardless, I think it's likely they want NA to catch up to JP and that's what's going on.
okay I gotta ask now: Why are you dismissing 5.5 and 6.5? They quite literally are main story chapters. What's your reason for not acknowledging them? In my opinion 5.5 did A LOT for the story of both Shimousa and previous lostbelts that had Limbo involved such as the 4th.
I did acknowledge them. I understand they help fill in gaps in the main story and tell tangential stories of their own. But they don't actually advance the plot of the main story, which is what everyone craves. I think they're great overall, but I don't hold them to the same level as one of the proper lostbelts.
I'll also go so far as to say they're somewhat of a stalling tactic themselves, as I don't think they were originally planned. Back in year 5 on JP, with anniversary Nasu started getting asked how the story was going to end as we had just finished LB5 out of 7. To which his response was that we weren't even halfway. Then we got the announcement of .5 chapters, and the reclassification of the Ooku event as one them after the fact. I can go into why I feel that to be the case, but frankly that could be an entire video itself. Suffice to say, I've always looked at them more as interludes to the main story proper. It doesn't mean I'm dismissing them, so much as pointing out the time gap between main chapters is only getting longer, which isn't a good thing imo.
is that Lucy Monostone?
apologies dont meant anything unless they actually change the structure so we dont constantly get so much dead time theyl obviouslty havent fixed that with their bullshit 3 week events with 1 week of content
Grindy systems suck so I don't do apends or coins anyway.
The game dev is already have more plan how to keep the game last in their 5th anni since for a live service game last for 5 year+ basicaly their plan more into keep it long than try to just keep the hype up. It is hard to find a decent live service game last for 5+ year especialy if it live service gacha game which many game community condem and hate it.
they next to fix the rp economy its trash on jp bc of no reruns and theyre rarely given out
Looking forward to more videos like this as it is interesting, i disagree with some points but I don't think videos like these are bad in any ways.
I just hope they decide to make fate go arcade global or at least in the US
Based. I hate all the doomerism in the community- you're the only FGO UA-camr I follow, because you're very positive, but still critical where it counts.
This video counts for being critical nowadays? You learn something new everyday I guess
I'm not too worried about it. I think jp can sometimes forget to take their doomsday goggles off
Honestly this may sound crazy. but I wish they just pull an Ubisoft and do what they did in R6 siege when they made a season and called it operation health and patched the game. In my dream world after LB7 I want no story. Gimme just a clear way of acquiring welfare content be it units or ce’s, more reruns and rereuns, buffs from down to up from 1 star units to 5 star units heck I’d push for passives to be looked at (Mata hari), some love for our precious units roll over some AU, spice things up add new spiritron dresses, and for the love of God some account protection, linking whatever they wanna call it. We need a health check up on this game and Im hope reruns and rereruns would make up the lack of banners.
I am glad they won't do that, that is an amazing way to kill a game like a lot of Ubisoft games are being killed.
@@hikari9807 tell me how would they fluidly add the AU, the buffs, the skins, the possibility of reworking passives and account security why would a period of time to fix all of this and add access to welfares would be bad.
@@xxmusashi"after LB7 I want no story. Gimme just a clear way of acquiring welfare content be it units or ce’s, more reruns and rereuns, buffs from down to up from 1 star units to 5 star units heck I’d push for passives to be looked at (Mata hari), some love for our precious units roll over some AU"
1-A game of RPG that you literally said you don't want story.
2- Making 1 star units to 5 star units, what??? That makes no sense at all, that is why there is rarity.
3- They are updating the spiriton dresses, looks like you don't play JP because we got one and gonna get other in part 2.
4- The rerun thing is nice, but then will appear the other players that will complain about reusing events to fill "gap".
FGO’s story is probably its top reason to be invested in the game other than “really liking fate stuff”. The game play will get repetitive sometimes, but the story (at least at the current NA point) is visual novel level. I seriously dont think a lot of people would’ve stuck around if not for the story as most of the characters we now know and love are essentially FGO originals. And people love them BECAUSE of the way theyre written. No story truly would be a game ending move, my god.
@@jyon7168 any game is like that, if the story isn't good people drops unless the gameplay is absurdly good. Altough the gameplay be repetitive (if you think about that, any game is repetitive, some are more other are less), the gameplay for me is the ideal, simple and pratical, good animation, graphics and ost, and isn't a "menu simulator" like others that you literally skip the gameplay or the game play it by itself.
I have feeling that they will announce end of the game after LB7 and Final though.
Definitely not, Nasu is already planning for a story post part 2.
I find that very unlikely, game still makes good money so no need to end service
Would heavily surprise me, despite the wait its a friggin money printing machine, they'd be stupid to stop
They already said the game will continue, I have no idea where people get the idea about the "end of the game"
@@hikari9807 5 dead weeks
I am amazed how people can be so toxic with this doomposting thing, but mostly of them of course skipped all the story in the LB7 (since they don't know japanese, talking about the western players), how people forget that January is a packed month in terms of games having a lot of events that, most of the FGO players partake since we like gacha games like Azur Lane/Genshin Impact Chinese New Years, Arknights Third Anniversary, Blue Archive Second Anniversary, GranblueFes.
Launch of big games like Fire Emblem Engage and a lot of sales (including type moon games).
FGO knows how busy some players are, how many of them play other gachas, how many of them work, that is why I say months like this are really good to refresh and avoid being burned out about the game, a lot of other gachas has events after events and, because of that, people stop playing.
Thanks to this "chill" month I could play the LB7 without rushing and translating at my pace, could finish 2 games, started some Type Moon games and, of course, relax.
And again some people get annoyed by something they never promised, I talked on twitter about how obvious is a 31st of January launch for part 2 while some people thought otherwise.
Talking about the grail and coin thing, should be good to have a better way to get it but.... I don't even use it because isn't that necessary lol.
If people only play for the Main Story then.... That don't make sense because every event, even the dumbest of them, has some importance into the story of FGO, but I see a lot of people who use the "want only the Main Story" as excuse but in the end don't even read it.
Japanese players are also complaining but I guess they also didn't read story eh ? I find it interesting how people say "it's good to have breaks" as if they're forced to play 24/7 when we have events.
Tbh what I find more toxic than the doomposters are the people who will bring up everything possible to defend this company, they'll downplay problems with the game and it makes them know they can do the bare minimum and get away with it every time. I'm expecting more dead months with no communication in the future, oh well, at least we have blue apples.
@@somerinsimp4327 if you search about it and follow JP players you know that mostly of them are literally playing other gachas, using their time to do other things, I only see the doomposting come from the western fanbase that is extremely toxic.
I am not just "defending the company" but showing how much people don't think, FGO literally knows the games we play, the way to do the marketing (one servant already paid more than other gachas) knowing that people would complain if nito launched between the LB7 banners.
Like I am seeing a lot of players playing Genshin Impact and Azur Lane Chinese New Years, Arknights Third Anniversary, Blue Archive Second Anniversary, Princcone with the livestream this week, GranblueFes, and having a life too.
@@somerinsimp4327 and yes, we had so many dead months lately right? Like...this one? lol, ,imagine spreading lies like that oof.
If you don't have Free Quests in FGO to do, farm QP, farm materials, have a real life and do other things, then I understand the complaining about it because when I read people looks like that they live for FGO every minute...
@@hikari9807 How many times a year does fgo get #1 ? Other gacha games live in your head rent free. You're calling me a liar and you just lied right here, you also just repeated what you already said. Bootlickers will be bootlickers, enjoy.
@@somerinsimp4327 most of times? Only behind Uma Musume by a bit competing as the most profitable gacha game in Japan, imagine lying again like you are doing.
"Other gacha games live in your head rent free" I literally play other gacha games lol
Yes, you are a liar and a good example of the western toxic fanbase (thanks god isn't everyone), literally explained why FGO is doing what is doing but then you call me a bootlicker.
FGO has problems but I am glad we have a month to chill, enjoy better the story of Lostbelt 7, play other games if we want and farm some QP/Materials.
Seriously, FGO devs are EXTREMELY disappointing.
One part of the gameplay that makes me absolutely annoyed is the inabiliy to see all servants current bond exp till next lvl.
Or just a SIMPLE QoL where we could swipe left/right to see the next servants right away without having to hold onto their protrait to look at each servants one at a time to see who's the closest to leveling up.
Just the little things to make farming SLIGHTLY more bearable for me