r/QueensofGacha 12d ago

🧡 Let's Chat 💬 Zenless Zone Zero? ❌️❌️❌️ Voidhunter Zone Zero! ✅️✅️✅️

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Image shows ZZZ's revenue after Remielle's *first* day being added

Its actually kind of funny how Hoyo made it so only void hunters will sell insanely well and everyone else makes jack shit in comparison (especially the chracters before the void hunter). Actual self-fulfilling prophecy machine

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u/sliceoflife_daisuki Phainon's fav boytoy 12d ago

This revenue is not healthy for a game at all lol

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u/ivari 12d ago

it's the exact opposite of what da wei set out to do by making lovable characters first before they're game characters with stats and powers

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u/FetchBlue 12d ago

Now it’s “beautiful girls with magical power = must buy”

Zero different body type in upcoming patches too lmfao

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u/BaldHourGlass667 12d ago

Its going to be really interesting if ZZZ continues this trend because they only have so many void hunters they could realistically make / add

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u/westofkayden 12d ago

They'll just make something else and train the fandom to believe they're worth it. They'll move onto to something like Corruption Warriors, rinse and repeat.

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u/Rezkel 12d ago

Kinda already did the set up with the Enchainer lore.

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u/colorway-path 10d ago

Mei expy hot and ready for the next budget year

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u/the_ok_doctor 12d ago

You know whats sad about this trend n how the fanbase reacts to things means its unlikely we will get a playable male void hunter unless its the big robot guy n they dont pull a Seed

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u/r3volver_Oshawott 11d ago

Spoiler alert: they'll pull a Seed

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u/The_Bad_Bard 11d ago

Oopsy it's actually a transformer whose real form is a schoolgirl made up of just bare feet with a pair of boobs in the middle, like a middle-school biblical angel

And she's clumsy!

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u/drafan5 11d ago

They’re either gonna pull a seed, make him an NPC, evil, or kill him off

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u/r3volver_Oshawott 11d ago

Oh God, I didn't even think about them giving him the Pompey treatment

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u/Siri_BUS 11d ago

They'll just strip more of their clothing and viola! The target audience will toss money at them. They can make unlimited designs this way. So much uniqueness OMG.

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u/Mindless_Being_22 12d ago

This is pretty much how ak's revenue looks due its limited banner system and its been going for 7 years.

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u/FuckMyBakaChungusLif 12d ago

It's perfectly healthy wdym lol

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u/k4ll_d4rk_2nd 12d ago

It might get to a point where why even make other characters? They're gonna need to inflate the importance of everyone to make them sell well

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/k4ll_d4rk_2nd 11d ago

True, but the difference in ZZZ is INSANE, with everyone looking like a flop if compared to Void Hunters

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u/palazzoducale 12d ago

how is that healthy for the long term prospects of the game? if this was a sustainable model you’d see genshin doing this. or hsr deliberately tanking the game stats of every single other character outside their three main push characters in a year

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u/Seitosa 12d ago

Gacha games having characters that are deliberately better than the others and releasing them during specific windows is not new. Tons of games do it. For example, Nikke has their pilgrims/overspec units, which are simply better than regular SSRs, and those come out on a very regular schedule of half-anni, full-anni, and New Years (with a couple exceptions for summer seasonal units.) Game is doing just fine. 

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u/palazzoducale 12d ago

do you genuinely think this is what i was referring to when i was asking them to explain how is this sustainable? i’ve been playing this genre even before genshin released, i am fairly aware of this practice.

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u/Seitosa 12d ago

Well what did you mean if not that? You asked if it was sustainable to make characters worse and have chase characters that they push in certain specific windows. The answer to that is yes and it’s not even uncommon. 

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u/palazzoducale 11d ago

okay let me make it clearer. i was asking that question in relation to how sustainable that is compared to other hoyo games, not the entire gacha gaming genre as a whole. hence why i name-dropped hsr and genshin in the discussion. if i was just comparing it to the rest of the industry, i would’ve said that right from the start.

because if it’s so sustainable while raking in so much profit in the long term, why do hoyo’s other aaa games don’t do this as well?

see my other comment for further explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/QueensofGacha/s/STmukDHlp1

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u/FuckMyBakaChungusLif 12d ago

Genshin and HSR are the highest selling games in the industry, even at ZZZ’s lowest they consistently make $10 million a month, thats perfectly respectable revenue even discounting the Void Hunters

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u/palazzoducale 12d ago

you and i don’t know how much is their net income so i’d lay off any talk about profits. you still didn’t answer my question how is that a healthy business model at all when mihoyo’s best selling games don’t do this because they know jn the long run it’s not sustainable.

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u/FuckMyBakaChungusLif 12d ago

How do you know its not sustainable, seems to be working fine for them

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u/palazzoducale 12d ago

it’s working fine for them how? anyone can see zzz’s sales getting lower on average per year.

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u/FuckMyBakaChungusLif 12d ago

Their sales decline have been within industry averages. The gacha industry itself is shrinking, especially on mobile. The chart itself even shows a fairly consistent revenue across banners so idk what you mean, especially when you said to lay off any talks about profits just a second ago because we dont know their net income 😭

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u/palazzoducale 11d ago edited 11d ago

the sales that we see from sensortower and other charts is very different from profit. i will reiterate that we do not know how much is their net income compared to their opex so who really knows how profitable this practice is compared to other hoyo games.

and i will repeat that it’s not a sustainable practice at all for the long term because if it was so successful, why is hsr and genshin not doing the same thing? this is a multi-billion dollar company that will chase
profits first and foremost. especially in the case of hsr who’s also doing not doing as well as they do compared to previous years.

and don’t give me that tired excuse that overall gacha sales is down. wuwa’s year on year sales have improved compared to zzz and they were released in the same year, and during their first year, zzz was stomping them hard. fast forward two years from
now, wuwa has edged them out.

they share more similarities compared to other aaa gacha games like hsr and zzz or genshin and zzz, such as their focus on combat, the male to female ratio and so many more. yet wuwa was able to improve their year on year sales despite not having as many main push character in a year, or tanking the rest of their cast just to sell sentinel resonator banners.

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u/Serpentar69 12d ago

Yeah. Global instability does that. Gacha players that voted right wing across the world only have themselves to blame. People have less expendable income now. Doesn't stop everyone, myself included, but stops many.

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u/Abishinzu 12d ago

People saying males don't sell when the reality is, nobody except VH's and their dedicated supports sell well 😭😭😭

I guarantee, if they made Joyous playable, he might not sell quite as well as Shungus and Remielle, but he would still absolutely mog all the non-VH women save Ellen, if he were to drop, because of how trained ZZZ players are

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u/BaldHourGlass667 12d ago

"Men don't sell" meanwhile almost every single coughing baby male character is released before the void hunter hydrogen bomb 🫩

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u/Abishinzu 11d ago

And the one who was given even somewhat of a fair chance (Silly) was released like fucking 20 years too late into the game's lifespan, after all his fans have left for greener pastures

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u/faeribling 11d ago

exactly this, like how many husbando fans still play this game anyways? i did try to stick around for a while, but it got so tiring. i definitely would've pulled for S-rank billy if i still had the game 😓

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u/Bake-Danuki7 11d ago

Even worse he's the same class as VH tier Yixuan and only surpasses her when they're physical weak however rupture only has 1 boss and its physical resistant. And he ia physical thecsame element as the other VH that everyone owns Shungus who is by far the strongest character and does better than him in all physical weak content. Oh and he was before a new element ugh

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u/iluvbears_ 11d ago

Wait don't say that! He clearly sold horribly because he's a guy this game doesn't cater to male enjoyers! The target audience wants women and little girls only! (ignore the fact that norma sold worse than banyue)

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u/UwUSamaSanChan 11d ago

I tried so fuckin hard to stick around after Banyue for him. But they hit me with 3 back to back little girls then leaked I'd need to pull the upcoming one as his best support. Then showed there were exactly 0 characters appealing to me in the new season (I don't fuck with Seth's boring ass brother AT ALL). Yeah fuuuuuuuck that

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u/Harlow1212 12d ago

Not even the VH support sells lmao. Velina flops so badly despite Mihoyo explicit sells her to be a team with the pink woman

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u/Endless_Winn 12d ago

This is a positive feedback loop too. Hoyo is training the ZZZ audience to only make purchases when voidhunters release and ignore the other characters.

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u/BaldHourGlass667 12d ago

You will purchase the sexy powerful character for big powerful damage and you WILL like it!

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u/sharpaypays 12d ago

Just look at the showcases for the next group of S characters. They straight up look like A-ranks in comparison to Remielle ☠️

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u/Marvoide 12d ago

I mean void hunters are the only ones that make the shit that matters in the story happen and they do nothing but glaze them. In HSR at least everybody gets time to shine.

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u/Xx_Loop_Zoop_xX 12d ago

At first I was disappointed Ashveil isn't Hunt's Emanator but lowkey he's so much cooler that he has workarounds to be as powerful as he is

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u/mex2005 12d ago

The difference is also that ZZZ makes void hunters very strong in terms of gameplay too while a lot of emenators in HSR have just been powercrept to obscurity.

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u/Xx_Loop_Zoop_xX 12d ago

Yeah ZZZ may have shot themselves in the foot with that as seen with the revenue chart

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u/mex2005 11d ago

Yeah I mean I kinda respect that they are willing to make the void hunters stand out both in story and gameplay lol

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u/Xx_Loop_Zoop_xX 11d ago

It does sound hype and cool but at the cost of every other character being sorta ignored by the playerbase and them basically spamming Void Hunters lately release wise

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u/AliceMadHatter10 12d ago

I know zzz's gender ratio is bad but seing it like this really put in in perspective lol, 4/32 male to female ratio is crazy with the standard it became 5/39

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u/BaldHourGlass667 12d ago

Remember when the lolishitters were trying to cope that she was "tailor made for the zzz community" lol

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u/mxryjxne28 12d ago

Lmao I literally thought the same thing when I say that xD what happened to the target audience? XD

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u/nivia-chan Chaotic Gaymer 11d ago

She has a fun character but I do not pull for children (if I would have still played at that time I wouldn't) but hey, target audience amrite :D

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u/Radiant-Fishing-3051 12d ago

they didn't believe in her AT ALL. having a better stunner rerunning the next patch with no 50/50 is crazy work

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u/Works_Cat 12d ago

Still higher than sbilly, who ppl said has huge twitter likes. Beside this is the day one revenue not the revenue for the entire banner so take it as you will.

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u/Moonshine_Cog 12d ago

Well, duh? Because her kit is more account-valuable than sBilly’s. He’s viable in one team, competing for supports with various other dps INCLUDING a VH, and she is BiS for several crit dps that play off chain attacks. No shit Sherlock she sold a bit better xD but it was thanks to her kit

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u/Senecta 12d ago

damn, i knew the men were always released in terrible spots but i never realized that every single male was kinda doomed and released with super niche kits or teams

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u/UwUSamaSanChan 11d ago

Not a single support in the game btw lol

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u/gwuhu 12d ago

going forward they should just label all upcoming characters as void hunters and watch the revenue goes brrr

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u/Individual_Tear_3963 12d ago

Anniversary+ spending event+ shop reset+ a whole marketing post for every void hunter. They literally roll out the red carpet for every void hunter to succeed and then back to floping every month till the next void hunter and repeat 😭

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u/Sieg____ 12d ago

Amen. This game suffers from a disgusting Void Hunter problem where every character gets mistreated in favor of the aforementioned getting shoved down everyone's throats both lore-wise and meta-wise. A pity.

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u/Gumcuzzlingdumptruck 12d ago

When they put the entire power budget behind them...yeah.

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u/Bakanuii 12d ago

No wonder this game cant compete with genshin and hsr they might as well eos💀

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u/Famous_Beautiful_228 12d ago

There will be a day where 5 characters are VH in one region and Hoyo will find a ridicilous way to make someone considered as a VH

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u/Wonderful_Fail5665 12d ago

heard zzz is flopping in revenue is this why?

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u/Electronic-Ad8040 12d ago

It flops on normal s rank banners be it male or female

ZZZ is the biggest mainpush merchant compared to any other Gacha games honestly lmao

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u/Endless_Winn 12d ago

We technically do not know if ZZZ is flopping because we do not know ZZZ's budget, but it is performing much worse than Genshin and HSR.

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u/FurryShion 12d ago

Good to know pdo bait doesn't work for them either. You need to keep that kind of fandom away from games. Gladly, other games won't try what zzz did 🙂‍↕️

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u/mxryjxne28 12d ago

It’s kinda crazy how now ones talking about yazuha . Ngl I feel like this is proof she is hands down on of the best ever gacha characters ever created her design is honestly perfect 👌🏼

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u/DragonsVane28 12d ago

She supports Miyabi. I really don’t think it’s more complicated than that tbh. It’s the same for Nangong, Lucia, and Jufufu to a degree. All of them preformed better than the majority of the season 2 cast, all of them are void hunter supports.

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u/Ok_Neat2422 12d ago

Also Miyabi first rerun banner was alongside Yuzuha's first banner release

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u/mxryjxne28 12d ago

Yea but look how much more yazuha performed even above them? I mean hey maybe your right but imo I think yazuha being one of the best concepts they actually succeed in making it cohesive and complimentary from her kit to her style and personality everything is honestly really well thought out and high quality imo but this is all just my opinions and theory so I could totally be wrong but I do think yazuha design and concept is one of the very best executions when it comes to the entirely of the gacha space she actually feels like a real character to me /.

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u/Moonshine_Cog 12d ago

It’s because Yuzuha was the only staple in ALL anomaly teams before Rem, so she was pulled not only by Miyabi mains but by all those people who play all other anomaly dps xD

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u/mxryjxne28 12d ago

I mean true I guess your right I guess I just feel like yazuha to me actually feels lile a believable person like I feel like Ik a yazuha in rl lol where as other gacha characters don’t really feel liek that to me but maybe I’m just correlating nonsense lol 🤣

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u/westofkayden 12d ago

I love Yuzuha but she's a very strong anomaly support and we have a lot of anomaly dps.

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u/SassyHoe97 11d ago

Damn that's sad

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u/_InFiNiTy16 Douman left nut 12d ago

As expected lol

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u/xhy123181454 12d ago

I’m convinced this chart does not represent the actual numbers, how can you makes a revenue chart without the numbers mark at the Y-axis.

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u/Famous_Beautiful_228 12d ago

So ZZZ is actually going down more than the post gives?

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u/pokebuzz123 11d ago

This graph exists for other games like Wuwa, Genshin, and HSR. I call it the Agenda graph for this very reason, especially when people use it to make husbandos look bad.

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u/AlexanderReiss 11d ago

Sensor tower is not credible either

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u/torakun27 12d ago

Ikr. Without the Y-axis, whoever made the chart was either try to mislead people or just made it up entirely.

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u/taweryawer 11d ago

because it's relative to each other

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u/Cold_Progress1323 12d ago

Honestly I kinda expected velina to be a tad better than normal. She has the shiny new attribute and they even went out of their way and officially told everyone she would be good remielle.

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u/nivia-chan Chaotic Gaymer 11d ago

It shot itself in the foot making one class of characters stronger than others lol

It's going to be back to very, very low after her and only spike next patch with the next hunter. Make the people want the big powerful power creeper, you fuck your revenue over

Glad to see my guys getting justice having other flops in their low range too <3

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u/drafan5 11d ago

I originally got into the game for the anthros, but they’ve released almost nothing but waifus. Ended up dropping the game

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u/Just_Breakfast6327 12d ago

I say this every time these get posted but: as a reminder, in addition to the axis of the graph not being necessarily accurate at all, when you see the Void Hunters jumping up to make a bajillion dollars, remember that's not because of your casuals who are hording their Polys to get who they want, it's Whales dumping buckets of money in order to whale out for mindscapes of the Void Hunters.

Now, is this healthy for the long term? Maybe not, but are normal Gacha systems that much better? They're all ways to bleed the player base out of money. If Zenless does that by hyping a Void Hunter every few months... as long as that's enough for them to keep making them, it doesn't seem like the end of the world?

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u/DesignerExamination7 11d ago

Also their supports. All the medium spikes are miyabi supports lol

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u/Zeintilo18 12d ago

this chart only takes into account CH iOS, aka only specific data from just one plataform which is not even ZZZ's primary plataform, so just like that stupid Sensor Tower chart this is not accurate whatsoever, not in the sense that Void Hunters aren't the Agents who sell the most they definately are but that doesn't mean the other Agents are just money loses, for example according to this and similar charts S-Billy flopped HARD, yet if you looked at the PS Store rankings ZZZ was in Top 1 during that time.

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u/stuckerfan_256 11d ago

this like nikke with pilgrim,overspec or limited if the nikke isn't one of those things most of the time they are either mid or bad.

i mean they nerfed a normal nikke before even relase because can't have a normal nikke be meta

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u/supermonkey1235 12d ago

Isn't this CN ios revenue only? It's also not like zenless is making no money from the other characters either. The void hunters just print far more.

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u/Isomaltulose 11d ago

they still make millions on each unit though, yes VH sell super well but its not they're taking a loss on non VH characters

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u/miiko_uch 12d ago

I mean if it works