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Fire Emblem Heroes made $115 million in 6 months, 11.7M downloads, now at $500K/day
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Boy Wander
Member
Animal Crossing is going to be a money machine when it comes out.
ThisIsMyDogKyle
Banned
f2p Animal Crossing with themed furniture pack in-app purchases is going to make bank.
SinCityAssassin
Member
That'll fund a few more teams.
Dark Ninja
Member
Pay your house loans with real money and not bells.
Nah. You'll have worse teams than old players for a while but it's not hard to catch up.
Game is generous with orbs and rates aren't bad so you'll get good units easily.
They also have lots of DLC.
I'm surprised: I didn't think it'd be earning this much and shocked that this is relatively little for a gacha. I've dropped close to £100 into the game, making that Europe slice of the pie a little bigger.
I contest the idea that the game is particularly F2P friendly though. FEH is very generous with premium currency, but gives very little guarantee that you'll get anything of value when you spend. The spending mechanics also encourage blowing lots all at once rather than little and often, requiring players to spend little and often or opening their wallets and buying premium currency with real world money.
I contest the idea that the game is particularly F2P friendly though. FEH is very generous with premium currency, but gives very little guarantee that you'll get anything of value when you spend. The spending mechanics also encourage blowing lots all at once rather than little and often, requiring players to spend little and often or opening their wallets and buying premium currency with real world money.
Good for them. I don't really like the gacha model that much because it does prey on people's obsessiveness a little, but I'll give them credit for not making an obnoxious version of it. I like how it doesn't constantly bug you and pressure you about getting orbs or throwing in pop-up deals and stuff. The only thing it really does is throw you into the summon screen when you login.
Haven't spent a dime on it and have really enjoyed playing the game. There are enough "good" units and varied strategies that basically everyone will eventually get dealt a pretty good set they can build around (mine was a bladetome team). The RNG is still kind of annoying, but there are enough random pieces to stitch something together.
Haven't spent a dime on it and have really enjoyed playing the game. There are enough "good" units and varied strategies that basically everyone will eventually get dealt a pretty good set they can build around (mine was a bladetome team). The RNG is still kind of annoying, but there are enough random pieces to stitch something together.
CrackPebbles
Member
I'm part of the problem.
Mechanized
Member
It's nice they keep making mainline games on the side. It would be very easy to just say fuck it with these numbers.
BassForever
Member
And this is why waifu emblem is here to stay
Not making new mainline games would make it harder to sell new waifus.
Eg. The Fire Emblem Echoes characters that have appeared now on Fire Emblem Heroes would be irrelevant for people to want to get if the 3DS game never released.
BassForever
Member
Those were timed wrong
Had they launched with a 1-2 punch of animal crossing 3ds and wiiu they would have done gang busters. Launching them with amiibo festival was a mistake
This game is amazing. It's all I play these days, and it's glorious fun!!!
I think I put around 100 dollars into it. lol I had to pull Bride Lyn and I had no orbs at the time she released.
Not too late, the free content is really generous and even timed events have been coming back from time to time. Obviously putting money in would speed up the catching up dramatically. But with a handful of heroes obtained for free you can clear a lot of the content.
The reddit community for this game is hilarious.
I think I put around 100 dollars into it. lol I had to pull Bride Lyn and I had no orbs at the time she released.
Not too late, the free content is really generous and even timed events have been coming back from time to time. Obviously putting money in would speed up the catching up dramatically. But with a handful of heroes obtained for free you can clear a lot of the content.
The reddit community for this game is hilarious.
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
And this is why investors wanted Nintendo to join the Mobile market. I could easily see this making another 50 to 75 million without breaking a sweat with 100 million in reach if it doesn't lose popularity. Imagine what they'll make with a second go with Mario and then add Zelda, Donkey Kong, Kirby, etc.
I mean, they'll still make mainline entries. Awakening sold at least 2 million copies and Fates sold at least 1.85 million copies. Considering it was seen as a long shot for Awakening to sell 250K, I'd say you got your wish without much of a downside.
I mean, they'll still make mainline entries. Awakening sold at least 2 million copies and Fates sold at least 1.85 million copies. Considering it was seen as a long shot for Awakening to sell 250K, I'd say you got your wish without much of a downside.
It also killed off advance wars and paper mario so i hope you're happy
not that big
Paper Mario slow death since super has really no link to this. It mostly lies with Nintendo choosing to take this series in the experimental route since they thought Mario & Luigi already did the job for conventional RPG.
Beside, with the last Advance Wars never released in Japan (not counting the 3ds ambassador gift) despite having been developed there, i always felt like the company was not sure what to do with the series anymore near the end.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Stuff like this made me laugh whenever I see people arguing that waifus AREN'T the reason why Fire Emblem Awakening was such a success.
Aztechnology
Member
Whatever, as long as normal fire Emblem titles keep getting made then more power to them.
DecoReturns
Member
It's not the only reason. It had a lot of other things going for it.
You have to decide on a Whale Threshold first. Is it anyone who ever spends money? Everyone who spends on a regular basis or anybody with a total spend above a certain amount?
DarkLordMalik
Member
This is going to be the most profitable Fire Emblem for Nintendo.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Always fun when fans claim their gacha game is not really p2w, when clearly, you can pay to get more rolls and thus an advantage. Whether one has to pay 100, 1000 or 10000$ to see a sizable advantage is a different, albeit not unimportant matter. Likewise, luck does play a role of course but on average it...well, averages out.
Unless they've changed to a completely cosmetic model in the meantime, which I doubt. Note that it can still be fairly f2p friendly all in all, but people who want to claim it's downright not p2w, when defined as gaining a competitive advantage by paying, are wrong.
As for the news itself, not too surprising with a well-known franchise that's perfectly well suited for the gacha model, especially with plenty already established waifu/husbando characters. Nintendo could've made a billion statements about sticking to other business models, we all know that will change.
Unless they've changed to a completely cosmetic model in the meantime, which I doubt. Note that it can still be fairly f2p friendly all in all, but people who want to claim it's downright not p2w, when defined as gaining a competitive advantage by paying, are wrong.
As for the news itself, not too surprising with a well-known franchise that's perfectly well suited for the gacha model, especially with plenty already established waifu/husbando characters. Nintendo could've made a billion statements about sticking to other business models, we all know that will change.
They were a reason, but anyone arguing that the increased accessibility/no permadeath/casual modes had zero effect on increasing the appeal of a niche strategy game on Nintendo systems is hardly being sensible either.
The good thing is it also makes more money by releasing new FE games. We've had several Echoes banners in FEH, we had a Tempest Trial now, looks like we will have another one, huge push for Echoes. I feel Heroes will help mainline FE games in the future and the other way around as well.
We have more discerning tastes with our baguettes, schnitzel and fish and chips m8
RoboGeorgeForeman
Banned
Star Fox could be cool in a FTL-like game. I'd imagine almost all event nodes would have to be combat or shop related, and it'd have to be more centered around upgrading your ship/pre-defined characters instead of building a mostly procedurally generated crew, but it could still work. They could even sell other motherships/crews, weapons, and even scrap (for during runs)
Also congrats I guess on Heroes. I played it for about two weeks before I got bored, but hopefully it means more console FE games in the future. Kinda wish we got more Himukai art out of the game though.
Android18a
Member
I log in daily to collect my free orbs and stuff, sometimes see what characters I can summon. I don't really play it though, and I've never spent money on it.
When I've considered buying orbs (and I've looked, sometimes) it just seems really bad economy. At the cheapest-but-worst-orbs-for-£ level, it's £3 for 3 orbs. Whereas, most days, you get 2 orbs for nothing just for signing in. The orbs are extremely overpriced for how easy it is to get hold of them for free with a bit of patience.
If it was 10 orbs for £0.99 or something, I'd possibly buy 20 now and then to do a full summon. But at the current pricing, it's way beyond anything I'd ever want to pay for. I'll stick to grabbing the daily log ins and just save up that way. These orbs just don't have any real value, nor do the 'goods' you get in exchange. It's just sprites and pixels....
When I've considered buying orbs (and I've looked, sometimes) it just seems really bad economy. At the cheapest-but-worst-orbs-for-£ level, it's £3 for 3 orbs. Whereas, most days, you get 2 orbs for nothing just for signing in. The orbs are extremely overpriced for how easy it is to get hold of them for free with a bit of patience.
If it was 10 orbs for £0.99 or something, I'd possibly buy 20 now and then to do a full summon. But at the current pricing, it's way beyond anything I'd ever want to pay for. I'll stick to grabbing the daily log ins and just save up that way. These orbs just don't have any real value, nor do the 'goods' you get in exchange. It's just sprites and pixels....
Such a shame that the game is shit. I wish they would have applied this model to a real Fire Emblem game. Then I might have been interested at least. Though that said, I think it's time that Fire Emblem drops the horrible character relationships and waifu crap. Currently playing Fire Emblem Blazing Sword on the GBA and man, that game is so good and streamlined compared to the bloated crap in the latest Fire Emblem games.
Im sure the vast majority of people playing it are those not spending anything. Skill transfer is what opened up the arena for me, it's rare I see the same builds all the time whereas in the beginning it was all about which characters were strongest with their default skills. Now, as a free player, you can tailor teams to take on stronger content you just wouldn't be able to handle with the default characters, and even then there's videos available of players defeating the tougher maps with units available to everyone. Skill transfer also gave a purpose and a possible use for the majority of the weaker character pulls you get, rather than immediately sending home anyone that isn't a powerful unit.
The_White_Rose
Member
I'm part of the problem or solution. Depending on how you look at it.
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