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239: how does one become popular on dreamwidth rp?

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every time this topic comes up i'm dying to know what constitutes a non-fad canon by wg standards. seems like any canon anons don't like gets called a fad even after it's been out and played from for years and years

come on anons, what enduring classics are you playing from?charles dickens? casablanca (1942)? og star trek?

Fire Emblem Fates

if it's popular and has more than 2 journals floating around it's a fad canon according to anons

so then the real problem is that the "my obscure characters get no tags" anons and the "I don't want to tag fad canons" anons are here complaining instead of tagging each other

this is all of dwrp

it cant be that they are boring or off-putting. its gotta be that dwrp is full of flaky idiots who are obsessed with the New Shinies or that they hate female characters. it has to be somebody else's fault

really funny to read this on flatview and see the anons charging in to prove your point right after this comment

it's weird because i would think gacha canons would be more likely to last for a while popularity-wise since they get a constant stream of new content whereas something like a movie or a one-season tv show is one and done, and even if they get a sequel there's usually a gap of a couple of years before the new installment comes out. gacha games get new stuff every month or two so it's easier to maintain interest.

Gacha encourages the feeling of chasing new shinies, since you'll get a new character who is prettier/better/hotter/etc than the last one for a limited period of time. Usually characters aren't also that deep, so a lot of it is simply just how thirsty you are for that character. That's how I feel at least.

i guess it depends on the gacha because the ones i play have fairly extensive lore and character relationships. i actually don't rp from them because i don't want to have to try to keep all of the lore straight when it's constantly being added to.

yeah i think joseimuke properties such as ensemble stars and twisted wonderland have thousands and thousands of text surrounding their characters and the world they live in, which explains how they both bring in billions of yen every month.

As a casual enstars fan I would never RP from it because there is way too much to read for any given character.

I think it depends on whether the game bases its gacha on new characters (like Genshin) or new cards of existing characters (enstars, twisted wonderland). Games like Genshin are always expanding their cast, so you naturally get less content for older characters once their newness has worn off, though they may come back for events here and there. Enstars/TW on the other hand are building up the lore of their existing characters with every new event or card story because they rarely if ever add new characters.

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yeah twisted wonderland was one of the ones i was thinking of, actually. there's so much story there for all of the characters that i would be worried about about forgetting things because even if it wasn't something that was directly relevant to my character, it still probably affects them in some way.

not for nothin anon but i don't think this is exclusive to joseimuke, it's more just any gacha game that is able to keep itself sustained for a long time either needs good characters to keep people engaged (and i'd say non-joseimuke mobage manage this, like fate and granblue) or a gameplay loop that is addictive enough to sustain it without (puzzle and dragon).

tbh one of the biggest joseimuke gacha games is famously lacking in story and good character writing, touken ranbu. that's not saying it's bad, there's a lot of media outside the core game to dive into if you want, but it's really not as simple as you make it sound.

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it's the constant stream of new content that makes them so flaky. remember when hypmic was popular and dropped off?

it's not just genshin, its also granblue, identity v, etc. people might play the latest new shiny genshin character for a month but they always tend to flake. they always "voicetest" but never actually rp them and they tend to drop threads.

Tbf I think hypmic fell off because iirc it doesn’t have an official EN translation for the app? And so the anime held about as much attention as any one season anime does.

hypmic is legitimately difficult to rp from because of how much lore and info sometimes just goes without being said/translated.

if the anime gets a second season/manga gets a legitimate translation i can see it coming back in the RP space, but beyond that, probably going to stay dormant.

very weird assertion to make when genshin has been out for a year and a half now and most of the characters people tend to play are the ones that have been in the game since it released

sorry a genshin apped to your game and got the tags you felt you deserved but there's an easy solution to that problem. it's called tagging out.

directly from Epic of Gilgamesh.

ppl would still call u a fate neckbeard

to be fair

fate's enkidu is kinda hot

not ayrt but can unironically confirm

look at bakerstreet though. that star wars musedumper has been at for years. and there's a good chunk of mcus or other video game muns who have played the same character for a while.

has anyone ever tagged that star wars musedumper? how does this person keep going when absolutely nobody plays with them

They never tag back it's weird

I had them on plurk for awhile and tagged them but they will literally tag back months later (if at all) and then whine about how no one wants to play with them

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