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NEWS: Koei Tecmo, Gust Announce New Atelier Resleriana Game for iOS, Android, PC

No words, only swearing at this point.

Really — just imagine after a series was quite on the rise for years after the Ryza games profits, KT decided to make a reveal for the next mainline game... that is nothing but gacha with smartphones in mind — despite they had no actual success when they tried to do it already first with Atelier Online (which is already dead), nor do Gust have any major success from gacha at all — like with Blue Reflection Sun — and if anything, it's majorly pissing off the core auditory of the series, who are playing the game mostly on consoles for years, with this reveal.

Plus if Atelier Online was the indicator of how screwed the p2w of this game can be and they decide to go the same way — well, it will be BAD.

I think that "gacha mechanics" are, intrinsically, awful on their own and definitely worse than overpricing or flat recurrent payments.
Like it's not just about how much money they might (or might not) extract from your pockets, it's about the impact it has on the actual game experience and what alterations it might cause on the actual lives and health of its playerbase.

I don't really think this is the end of the world. I have no interest in mobage and am not interested but we just got Ryza 3 so it's not like we're in some kind of drought. This isn't like the Breath of Fire mobage announcement for me.

I remember playing an Atelier game on the Switch that felt like a mobile game already. The gameplay for exploring was essentially an auto-walker. I forget which one it was because I really didn't like it much and only played it for like an hour.