Can FGO Keep Up? Should We Compare it to Other Games?

投稿日：2024年6月14日

FGO has been around a long time, but every time we have a lull in content, criticism starts to pop up. How fair is it to compare FGO to other gacha games? Can it manage to keep up?

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@canaldecasta より:

2024年6月14日 3:08 AM

I may need to give it more time to form a coherent deep thought but just out of the top of my head I find it frustrating in a way that you can't really interact with other masters. That has always been odd.
Also since the only actual gameplay you can do is standard battle that costs AP that runs out after 3 potential engages, once that is done you get this weird feeling of "ok now what? Nothing for 8 hours". The Game is not meant to be played at lenght, yes, but that is mostly your only option besides reading updated profiles after bond 6.
Know what Im saying?

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@rafresendenrafresenden.1644 より:

2024年6月14日 3:18 AM

it makes money, that is the only thing that matters. The rest is irrelevant.

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@miguelangelramirez8813 より:

2024年6月14日 3:19 AM

I don't mind dead weeks gives me time to do other things that being said yes fgo can improve on a lot of stuff like qol changes, improve pity system, auto battle especially also i would still love to see a semi open world fgo game like hsr but thats just me

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@rafresendenrafresenden.1644 より:

2024年6月14日 3:19 AM

@@canaldecasta "ok now what? Nothing for 8 hours" that is the reason people get addiction to FGO

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@wolfdragonblood2015 より:

2024年6月14日 3:23 AM

I’m not here for the gameplay and i like that playing this game doesn’t eat my phones data and battery please stop asking for highend fgo i wanna play more of the game how it currently is

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- @miguelangelramirez8813 より:
  
  2024年6月14日 3:27 AM
  
  LOL
  
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@HelplessFangirl より:

2024年6月14日 3:25 AM

Just gonna yeet my whole thoughts into this and hope someone might care:

I saw the tweet that inspired this and the comparison made was poorly worded at best and unfair at worst. It mentioned if FGO had the "staying power" as Honkai Star Rail and Wuthering Waves. So first, let me dissect that. Honkai Star Rail's fanbase was largely built in from Genshin's success, being one of the most popular video games in general of all time. Wuthering Waves also seeks to capitalize off the popularity of Genshin and other open world gacha's, with most of it's appeal (from what I've observed) being from burnt Genshin players. While Fate's popularity and cultural impact is nothing to sneeze at, it isn't AS popular overseas, which is why you see most of its revenue coming from the JP side.

First, WHY does HSR and Wuthering Waves have staying power? I think we need to look at how they're fundamentally built first. Unlike FGO's three (six if you wanna count coins), they have larger branches of skills that all go to ten, but also a system that leaves room for constant improvement in relics, as well as an increased need to pull for a "match" for a unit in lightcones and weapons (this isn't as much of a necessity but it is worth mentioning). That is to say, these characters were meant to realistically not have a cap. Meanwhile by FGO standards, getting a character to full level and 10/10/10ing their skills with 1000/1000 fou stats. It's designed for you to put it down until you want to grind an event or do story.

Second, I think saying HSR and Wuthering Waves's "staying power" is contentious. I do think Honkai Star Rail is more likely to succeed, especially with the recent release of Penacony which was a huge success. It also helps that it's more generous than Genshin and has successfully diverted a lot of its players to HSR. But it's still not nearly as old as FGO. While yes, its around a year old at this point, FGO is in an entirely different age bracket. Wuthering Waves I think is worse, as it just came out and I've already seen quite a few complaints about it copying Genshin's homework too much on top of subpar voice acting and story. (I haven't played it but my main focus is reception, not my own thoughts). But FGO was built on a completely other standard for staying power and even if it decided to shut down after finishing Ordeal Call...it still played its part. It wouldn't be that FGO was wasted, it just served it's purpose, and there's no indications it's going to shut down before then.

I have suggestions but this comment is long enough, so I'll just say: FGO definitely needs improvements, and I'd like to see SOME inspiration taken into FGO 2 if there ever is one, but I think current expectations put on FGO is unfair.

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@erdgolem3273 より:

2024年6月14日 3:31 AM

you make some good Points. thx for the informativ and entertaining Vidio.

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@johnhakim7037 より:

2024年6月14日 3:35 AM

as a new player, my biggest problem with the game is that I can't get access to all the unique CEs or free event servants in years past anymore and those would have helped a lot as a F2P, I mean yes there is the rare prism shop but, the currency is so lacking, I have only 6 rares after 3 months and I have no idea which event/trail quests is best to unlock first.
that being said I'm enjoying the game so far I just finished LB6 and I'm doing Tunguska now and then LB 6.5

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- @Khadroth より:
  
  2024年6月14日 3:47 AM
  
  Evocation festival will help on the welfare servants next year. JP has also started to add back older event CEs into the mana prism shop but there's a lot missing still.
  
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@mtgmac1 より:

2024年6月14日 3:35 AM

Yes, it has to improve. It won't survive on its IP alone. The competition is stepping up its game, and FGO needs to do the same, as it does not exist in a vacuum.

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@slaine7874 より:

2024年6月14日 3:37 AM

I mean I don’t play the game as much as I used to simply because the content pipeline is much slower than it used to be. That’s just given me more time (and money) to put into other gachas. So yeah they’re losing money from me but clearly they’re not hurting because the game is doing top dollar on the charts every month. They won’t make any drastic changes until the revenue takes a hit.

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@arashikagehayabusa2910 より:

2024年6月14日 3:39 AM

Hi there, what is your exact definition of downtime? What is the community's definition of downtime?

To contrast with my definition potentially, I expected this year in NA to be relatively lax based on the community's reaction to it 2 years ago on the JP side.

However, I feel that I have been far busier this year so far, that's including the 3 week events rather than 2 week events. The main reason for that in the events being that I plan out the materials I need from each one, including statistical based drops from the free quests, on characters I'd like to shoot for in the rest of the year.

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@insertname5371 より:

2024年6月14日 3:41 AM

The biggest issue is it’s so hard and tedious to catch up. Honestly they should rewrite the first couple singularities to improve the on boarding experiences. Is it ok sure. But other stories are catching up and doing better. Let people replay fights and let people replay events even if it’s for a limited time each year. I also think some degree of multiplayer is required. Not true pvp with accounts but some kind of event where you can go player v player or work together with others. Perhaps with given units at fixed np levels. Or perhaps a game that links with your fgo account.

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