@DrJamesFox I personally think gacha is a predatory monetization tactic, like microtransactions, battle passes and lootboxes
I do play some games that are gacha, but I'd rather see the model outlawed
Personally I never understood Himiko's popularity, I gave up on the series ages ago due to it having a lot of tropes and characters I disliked and Himiko was always the worst one imo, together with Tomura.
Hinako (brown hair) wants to marry a fairytale prince, so in Yuri she often gets paired with the boyish girls in Idolmaster, Asuka (orange hair) being one of them.
That said, this is the first time I see Asuka paired with Hinako.
Genshin is still in the "too big to fail in the forseeable future" stage but it's been out so long it's probably easier to find someone IRL who burned out on it than someone who still plays every day. It happened to me after 2.5 years.
That's just how it is with a lot of live-service games in general, no matter how big they get. They leave a big trail of people who don't play it anymore.
Back in my day, putting a " :P " with your comment showed you were joking. Maybe times have changed? There's no need to give my tongue-in-cheek comment a serious response.
^I've noticed sometimes people aren't picking up on you being cheeky, I think that's probably in part due to the lack of tone with text lol
Also yeah with all gacha it's a stressful grind to work for the character you want and everything. Gacha games tend to be massive time investments and they can be frustrating in various ways. I played Genshin twice, and now I'm just enjoying things from the outside.
^I installed it around launch, played it for a good while until burnt out and uninstalled it, then sometime later I reinstalled it and played it until burn out again. So now I just kick back and enjoy content from the outside without worry of keeping up, I don't think I'll return to play it for a third time despite some character banners being very tempting haha