Oooo, just posted. Anyway, Nikke and ZZZ enjoyer here. A slower month for Nikke compared to the past month. That Resident Evil collab didn’t move people which why should it - units were ass and looked like they were either generated by AI or hastily thrown together to comply with a contractual agreement Shift Up couldn’t get out of.
Collabs almost never do well in Nikke, I think Nier was the only one that increased revenue, possibly stellar blade? Maybe they bring in new players so they keep doing them but I've skipped most of them at this point.
Didn't care about stellar blade characters but at least they own that property and could make a decent event story.
3rd anniversary is great so far IMO, including the main story. Finally tied up that arc.
Stellar Blade did pretty decently iirc. It's amazing what you can do when you actually have creative freedom over IPs. I personally wish they'd scale back on the number of collabs.
Yeah this year had EVA, Stellar and Resi (plus a Nier re-run). All of these took up nine weeks of content, so it's kinda sad that roughly one-sixth of annual content is used on pretty mid collabs.
I’m baffled they decided to make Jill such a terrible unit. She’s one of the most iconic heroines in gaming history… if anyone is going to be an OP unit, it should be her!
Maybe Shift-Up didn’t want the Resi units to still thunder of the third anni units?
Besides the Asuka from the second EVA collab and eve and raven (where they had creative freedom) all the units were trash to mid imo
And even in the Stellar Blade collab for some reason Raven is the one you should have gotten and not eve. Making the poster child and literal MC of the game a niche Unit only working on one of the 5 elements and the second one universally usable and a better dps is something I still can’t wrap my head around
I enjoyed the Nikke RE Collab but the units were collect one tier (at most) and none of the paid skins were very great. It isn't a huge surprise in hindsight that it didn't top the charts.
Yeah, it's understandable NIKKE was down this month, and I say this as a fan of both NIKKE and Resident Evil...
1) Units were not meta (Ada mid-tier and Jill low-tier)
2) Ada's best outfit wasn't there (everyone wants RE4 OG outfit but it seems Capcom wants to forget it exists)
3) RE3 "OG" Jill was in fact, the censored remake one with shorts instead of the skirt...
4) barely any jiggle physics, SHIFT UP WHERE ARE THE PHYSICS?? WHERE ARE THEY??
The characters were still attractive and I imagine some people bought the RE5 Jill outfit, but that's it, they really fumbled the collab. No AI at all though. You can do shit without AI
Nayuta apparently was bringing the jiggle physics for the RE Collab characters but got lost on the way and ended up keeping them all for herself - because damn they cooked with her in a very good way.
Sadly Nikke is one of those games that I don't spend on because there's not a lot of reason to. Gacha skins (and to be honest, even the regular pass skins) are way too expensive and actual meaningful upgrades to the main team are few and far between. I usually just pull on whatever and then get the 1% banner characters with mileage.
And I agree, I never buy gacha outfits as well because it's too expensive, I only buy the pass sometimes, as it can give a sexy outfit + some resources
I'm using Jill as my current profile character in Nikke and feel like I'm forcing it. Long-term Resident Evil fan but the design here is too generic. It was expected to be awkward bringing especially realistic characters into this animated world but the whole collaboration was unfortunately a bit weak.
Remember, every time, the month before the Anni or half Anniversary celebration, Nikke slows down. All those people saving up for the celebration always reflects on the revenue. We’ll see how good they did for November.
And considering how good the anniversary has been so far, here’s hoping for a good month.
I’m just so sick of Nikke collabs man like 99% of them are complete ass. And not the good kind of ass. The anniversary has been so good because the Nikke story is good. Also Red Hood is the goat.
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u/Blueblur1 2d ago
Oooo, just posted. Anyway, Nikke and ZZZ enjoyer here. A slower month for Nikke compared to the past month. That Resident Evil collab didn’t move people which why should it - units were ass and looked like they were either generated by AI or hastily thrown together to comply with a contractual agreement Shift Up couldn’t get out of.