It's like wholesome keanu chungus 100 moe idol culture stuff with a bit of shounen competitiveness. No perv content or outfits so far. The only time the story gets any kind of friction is when rivalries spark up, but otherwise it's way too sweet.Finarfin wrote: ↑ June 28th, 2025, 14:18Horsegirl gacha, gonna check it out. Is it perverted or anything?
You can tell as soon as you boot up the game Jesus, calm down dude. Though yes, the first race while downloading the game seemed very nice.Valter wrote: ↑ June 28th, 2025, 14:28It's like wholesome keanu chungus 100 moe idol culture stuff with a bit of shounen competitiveness. No perv content or outfits so far. The only time the story gets any kind of friction is when rivalries spark up, but otherwise it's way too sweet.Finarfin wrote: ↑ June 28th, 2025, 14:18Horsegirl gacha, gonna check it out. Is it perverted or anything?
Has it? I see the new Shadowverse has way more players right now. But I'm still sorry for your loss. I don't hear much about Granblue aside from the Relink gameVal the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 05:53Makes me sad that Umamusume supplanted Granblue as Cygames' flagship franchise.
My understanding from popping in on /gbfg/ from time to time for news is that Umamusume was a mega hit and is one of the very top Japanese gachas, if not the top one. Apparently it is responsible for 70% of Cygames' revenue now. I think it raked it 2 billion USD in a year in 2022 or 2023. Umamusume gets 5 animes while GBF just got two mediocre ones. And now the main Umamusume gets an English release that is being promoted on Steam, while most people don't know that they can go to http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/#top and click the "set language" to English and play (they also have to jump through the hoop that is creating a mobage account). GBF's main story has been on hold for a few years now, with it becoming a joke that Cygames promised that we would get new main story chapters for several years and now show, and then they finally did it a few months ago and it's just a few chapters compared to how much was being released in the 2010s. And GBF's spinoff Relink got a lowcolization and mediocre English dub (the main game's localization doesn't suffer from this, though it is Japanese only voices). It seems like Cygames just doesn't care as much about GBF as they do for this moe game.Valter wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 13:40Has it? I see the new Shadowverse has way more players right now. But I'm still sorry for your loss. I don't hear much about Granblue aside from the Relink gameVal the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 05:53Makes me sad that Umamusume supplanted Granblue as Cygames' flagship franchise.
I pay so little attention to him anymore that I'd completely forgotten about all of that!Kalarion wrote: ↑ June 30th, 2025, 04:33Thanks for your recs Acrux
Not clicking that ***-loving troonsucking ****'s video though.
Good tbh. Seeing this was already enough to be disgusted at the mobile gacha.Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 18:40My understanding from popping in on /gbfg/ from time to time for news is that Umamusume was a mega hit and is one of the very top Japanese gachas, if not the top one. Apparently it is responsible for 70% of Cygames' revenue now. I think it raked it 2 billion USD in a year in 2022 or 2023. Umamusume gets 5 animes while GBF just got two mediocre ones. And now the main Umamusume gets an English release that is being promoted on Steam, while most people don't know that they can go to http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/#top and click the "set language" to English and play (they also have to jump through the hoop that is creating a mobage account). GBF's main story has been on hold for a few years now, with it becoming a joke that Cygames promised that we would get new main story chapters for several years and now show, and then they finally did it a few months ago and it's just a few chapters compared to how much was being released in the 2010s. And GBF's spinoff Relink got a lowcolization and mediocre English dub (the main game's localization doesn't suffer from this, though it is Japanese only voices). It seems like Cygames just doesn't care as much about GBF as they do for this moe game.Valter wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 13:40Has it? I see the new Shadowverse has way more players right now. But I'm still sorry for your loss. I don't hear much about Granblue aside from the Relink gameVal the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ June 29th, 2025, 05:53Makes me sad that Umamusume supplanted Granblue as Cygames' flagship franchise.
Blue Archive has gotten a Steam release.
It's been ten thousand years...
The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth 
And some Keyboard shortcuts QoL. I've seen way worse ports
Of note - Western developers are incapable of this.
Neither are Eastern
The money they're raking with **** products whose sole selling point are cute girls is proof to the contrary.
"girls"gerey wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 09:51The money they're raking with **** products whose sole selling point are cute girls is proof to the contrary.
Valter wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 04:06The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth
God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.
Finarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 11:19God, I hate Germany sometimes. Blue Archive is not available here.Valter wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 04:06The client actually runs so well I'm impressed, silky smooth
Can you VPN it? You're not pirating or anything. Or are VPNs illegal terrorism over there?
You need to make a new account with the VPN, accounts are region-locked.Finarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 11:38Well, activated Mullvad and then launched Steam, nothing in the store, tried it with SteamDB, gives me an error.
Seems like there are updates to this situation. The Adult Tags were removed and we have access to the Steam Community Hub, only thing that needs to be changed is the 18+ Rating the devs put on it since the mobile version is rated 16. That would make the game available in Germany.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 14:07You need to make a new account with the VPN, accounts are region-locked.Finarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 11:38Well, activated Mullvad and then launched Steam, nothing in the store, tried it with SteamDB, gives me an error.
Try an emulator? I used to play it on Bluestacks 5 (Pie 64-bit version) just fine almost no issues. Just obviously a small bit slower than an optimized PC version.Finarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 14:05******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?
Thank you for the help, fren but I hate Phone Emulation. Every other Emulation is fine but I hate phone emulation.Valter wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 14:23Try an emulator? I used to play it on Bluestacks 5 (Pie 64-bit version) just fine almost no issues. Just obviously a small bit slower than an optimized PC version.Finarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 14:05******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?
https://www.bluestacks.com/download.html
Just make sure to turn off ads in the settings and allocate high-extreme PC resources. And use the Google Play Store to install the game, not the client's own storefront.
Edit: Goes without saying you'll need a VPN as region restrictions still apply. But it should work I remember travelling to another ******** EU country that blocked some mobile games and remember getting around it with a VPN
Don't "play" itFinarfin wrote: ↑ July 4th, 2025, 14:05******* ****** off that I can't get Blue Archive on Steam. I don't want to play it on my phone. Don't they offer a non-steam PC version?
