Originally Posted by
Karbuncle
I'd say this strategy must be workng but with the addition of the Ads in the game I think that despite the fact they're probably making money hand over fist in amounts we couldn't comprehend, shareholders aren't happy. With businesses and especially Mobile/Game Industry, they can be making a LOT of money and still be "failing" in the eye of shareholders because their earnings aren't going up up up. I think FFBE is making a lot of money but they're probably been flat-lining or decreasing in terms of revenue and thats been effecting their stocks so they've been given orders to make more money.
So they milk the "Whales will be Whales" players who ill buy basically non-stop until they get what they want regardless of cost, so making the banners even WORSE rng-wise is just more money for them. Its short-sighted and unsustainable but it is what it is. I think this is going to erode the player base and with things getting stingier and stingier begin to erode whales as well, its going to take a while I imagine but it will happen, the Ad Reel was the first step.
I doubt this is Gumi's fault, I doubt they want their game to die or fail, I'm sure these pricing and banner choices come from the top down from the people paying the bills to keep the studio open, so I think Gumi isn't hurting financial in a reasonable persons sense, but they're hurting in the sense their profits are constantly rising and rising, which is where all these scummy choices come from cause Whales gunna Whale milk em while you can.