“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
Just some sprites having a lil snack.
omg im having rlly bad cuteness aggression rn….
new quint banner on April 30th! 🤍
Nikki for president
I love the new Nikki games but Whim and Styling Power are such lame explanations in comparison to Blood Curse.......... I miss u Blood Curse.......
always on the most random ass side quest
If you are a non spending player (f2p) in Infinity Nikki, here is why you should care that the 5 star is 11 pieces and leading to a boycott:
Because if a gacha game alienates their whales, it proceeds extremely quickly to "f2p can barely do anything at all" as the game slides faster and faster to pay to win to make up for losing their whales. Then f2p players leave. Then the game hits End of Service because no one is playing and paying for it anyway. No more Infinity Nikki for anyone. Infinity Nikki is not "too big to fail," it's big enough to withstand losing a lot of people, but the lower the revenue falls, the faster shit hits the fan for f2p.
You know why the game has been so generous with free outfits and pieces every month so far? Because that was the honeymoon period. They were trying to hook us in, and more importantly, they want happy whales who feel like they're getting their money's worth so they will keep spending.
We are now in the "fuck around and find out" phase of a gacha's lifetime, much earlier than I'd hoped. This is the part of the gacha timeframe where the devs increase monetization and things like the spending meter that I call Gacha Bullshit. This is when they test the waters and see how far they can get away with things.
11 pieces is an increase of pity by 20 pulls. No sane gacha game would do this unless they were testing the players' reaction. If you play any other gachas with a set pity, think very hard about how increasing those pities by 20 pulls would feel.
Mira Crown is a decent chunk of free pulls and diamonds for all players every month. Changing from every 14 days to once a month was the test. Conceding and changing it to twice a month is "we hear you, but we don't really want to listen, so shut up already."
If whales don't push back NOW against the increasing Gacha Bullshit, the devs start to add more, and, slowly, choke out the parts of the game that are f2p. This has happened before. This is why there's a "stupid" boycott! It's not "just" discourse.
You want your game to stay playable and fun for f2p? Then stop sneering at the very people who pay so you can play it f2p in the first place.
(This is not a defense of spending practices in predatory games, but it's the reality we live in that whales exist who want to spend money on things that make them happy.)
LOVE AND DEEPSPACE: BLOSSOM ESCAPE
devastating
This is just a little clip of the dev team talking about the upcoming housing feature in Infinity Nikki! The main points:
Devs intend housing to be unique from anything currently on the market.
Nikki's house will be on it's own island map and all furniture and placements will be fully customizable.
Nikki will be able to design and decorate with a construction ability outfit!
Many of the furniture items currently in the world will be available for Nikki to decorate with.
The entire presentation was posted pre-official release on November 29, 2024: Infinity Nikki Official Release Special Program: Set Out to Infinity!
i think riwon is my favorite so far
and everyone else swooning is v relatable: