Guild Wars 2

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Blade and soul actually hit top twitch viewer # as mmorpg, as attached photo shows.

This means pretty much american people actually like japanese anime looking style, becuz only reason to play such game is to see their female char and if you watch twitch streamer who are american and non-asian, they actually do play female characters a lotttt regardless of the streamer is male or female.

But when compare this trend to tera, tera has absolutely no viewers, they also has like japanese anime-looking character, called Elins. But still tera isn’t popular game in NA, probly due to elins look childish.

This means,
American people like Asian art style only when only Those two factors, Japanese anime style looking is combined with the another factor, mature (like, huge chest size and hip size). That is why tera isn’t popular i guess.

What do you think? Do you like combined art style of japanese anime-looking and mature factors when it comes to play such foreign mmo?

for me, the reason why I play this GW2 over BnS is because of Combat System and Build Diversity. it is much better than any other game I played and I think that’s why I play the game, to have fun.

But in terms of character design, I like BnS more. The reason could be just becuz I am Korean guy who mostly played games in those Asian art design. Thus I just wondered the general preference when non-asian people meets such asian art styled game. Did you like it? or dislike it. if disliked, you just naturally doesn’t like it for which reason?

also if you liked BnS’s character design, why you didn’t like Tera’s elin?

Tera is one of the most popular FTP mmos though, and NA is where it gets most of its revenue from. Also since those MMOs come from Asia, its natural that they have an asian art style. I myself dont really care for it unless theres male fanservice then im all for it.

Could Blade and Soul’s current popularity on Twitch have anything to do with its recent release here? Will it still be watched as much a year from now, 3 years from now? If it isn’t, does that mean Americans are fickle? Could they (and others) just flock to the newest ‘shiny’?

Blade and Soul’s release is still new here, while Tera has been around—oh no, not you again!

sounds like twitch viewer number of blade and souls isn’t related to its art style but just reason why people play it is becuz it’s simply new game?

I like a variety of art styles from the gritty realistic to the utmost stylized bordering on impressionistic. They rarely work well together without negatively impacting the overall vision so I generally prefer to keep them separate.

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ok.

Blade and soul actually hit top twitch viewer # as mmorpg, as attached photo shows.

This means pretty much american people actually like japanese anime looking style, becuz only reason to play such game is to see their female char and if you watch twitch streamer who are american and non-asian, they actually do play female characters a lotttt regardless of the streamer is male or female.

but Blade and Soul is Korean and so is Tera. :P
Are there enough Twitch streamers to be a valid sample size?

But when compare this trend to tera, tera has absolutely no viewers, they also has like japanese anime-looking character, called Elins. But still tera isn’t popular game in NA, probly due to elins look childish.

I’ve also seen people mentioning how great PvP is in B&S though PvE is apparently run of the mill. Haven’t every heard much about Tera. PvP is probably more fun to watch. PvE type things that people watch tend to be stuff like speedruns.

This means,
American people like Asian art style only when only Those two factors, Japanese anime style looking is combined with the another factor, mature (like, huge chest size and hip size). That is why tera isn’t popular i guess.

What do you think? Do you like combined art style of japanese anime-looking and mature factors when it comes to play such foreign mmo?

I think you are not looking at this hard enough.

Khisanth.2948:

online.1278:

ok.

Blade and soul actually hit top twitch viewer # as mmorpg, as attached photo shows.

This means pretty much american people actually like japanese anime looking style, becuz only reason to play such game is to see their female char and if you watch twitch streamer who are american and non-asian, they actually do play female characters a lotttt regardless of the streamer is male or female.

but Blade and Soul is Korean and so is Tera. :P
Are there enough Twitch streamers to be a valid sample size?

But when compare this trend to tera, tera has absolutely no viewers, they also has like japanese anime-looking character, called Elins. But still tera isn’t popular game in NA, probly due to elins look childish.

I’ve also seen people mentioning how great PvP is in B&S though PvE is apparently run of the mill. Haven’t every heard much about Tera. PvP is probably more fun to watch. PvE type things that people watch tend to be stuff like speedruns.

This means,
American people like Asian art style only when only Those two factors, Japanese anime style looking is combined with the another factor, mature (like, huge chest size and hip size). That is why tera isn’t popular i guess.

What do you think? Do you like combined art style of japanese anime-looking and mature factors when it comes to play such foreign mmo?

I think you are not looking at this hard enough.

nah i am talking about general preference of american on Asian art style. is it your favor or not. if it not, what is acceptable (mediate) point of anime style from your perspective or you just naturally dislike them on which reason?

stuffs like that, you know what i mean.

Twitch viewership means nothing as far as how popular a game is (with some exceptions). Developers just offer sponsorship to the big streamers during a launch of a game. Viewership will be back down to the low hundreds after the big streamers go back to their main games, most of them are WoW/Hearthstone streamers.

Art style has nothing to do with game popularity, everyone has personal preference.

All Twitch’s ratings say are how many Twitch users like a game. Also Blade and Soul is a Korean game. I wouldn’t really call it a Japanese style game. It’s really just a bizarre-shaped-body fighter game style art. >.<

BnS is top Twitch because it released this week in NA/EU and NCSOFT paid a lot of popular Twitch streamers to stream the game X hours a week for the next two weeks starting with the head start. This included head start and a couple founder packs for them to give away to their followers.

Also the art style is more Chinese/Korean rather than Japanese. The story is Wuxai based which means it’s all about revenge and honor. If you’ve ever watched any Chinese period piece movies, perhaps best known in the western hemisphere is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but there are so, so many more.

Nothing to see here but an endorsement deal for the new F2P kid on the block trying to draw as many eyeballs as possible so the F2P queues take an hour to log in while the “it’s not a subscription” premium service gets on immediately in hopes that frustrated F2P players will drop kitten for the week long premium trial.

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BnS is top Twitch because it released this week in NA/EU and NCSOFT paid a lot of popular Twitch streamers to stream the game X hours a week for the next two weeks starting with the head start. This included head start and a couple founder packs for them to give away to their followers.

Also the art style is more Chinese/Korean rather than Japanese. The story is Wuxai based which means it’s all about revenge and honor. If you’ve ever watched any Chinese period piece movies, perhaps best known in the western hemisphere is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but there are so, so many more.

Nothing to see here but an endorsement deal for the new F2P kid on the block trying to draw as many eyeballs as possible so the F2P queues take an hour to log in while the “it’s not a subscription” premium service gets on immediately in hopes that frustrated F2P players will drop kitten for the week long premium trial.

thx for many tips and info. I didn’t know that the ncsoft actually paid them tk stream their games.

I am pretty sure modern manga/anime style that korean people drawing (i don’t know china’s case but), actually originates from japanese manga/anime style. Many korean manga/design artist actually goes to japan to study about it a lot, i guess. Thus normally i call those style as simply japanese anime style even tho korean manga/art style is sliently different to theirs. Wow but you know exactly.

Google manhwa which is Korean comics. The current style is very similar as some Japanese manga has quite the following in Korea. The character designer for BnS is a well known manhwa artist in Korea.

To prepare the Japanese market for the game’s release there in 2014, NCSOFT had Studio Gonzo do a 13 episode anime that started to air a month or so before launch.

I have played Black Desert Online (Russian version), it seems to be a very anticipated game in the west, I must say that it has really good graphics – at the expense of a ‘’new computer’’ in the sense that the game is very hardware demanding, for comparison more than GTA V pc, I would say even 8gb ram might be to low to play it smoothly on high settings. Outside of great graphics the game does not seems to offer much to nothing, kinda Tera hardcore version with less content.

Considering Sodapopin is streaming the game with 9k viewers on his channel.

The game is new so a lot of “famous” twitch streamers are trying it out. It will die down when something new comes out just like it happened to manny other games.

Also with me being in Premium que for an hour and 15 minutes made me delete the game instantly. I can’t imagine how is standard que.

People are trying it out, but good golly Miss Molly. A brand new game and they couldn’t look around to see how other games eliminated long log in queues? Maybe they’re figuring the game doesn’t need that because most people aren’t going to play it long and they’re just going to have a small, stable population.

BnS is new so people are curious. It has an interesting combat system and good PvP. NCSoft paid quite a few streamers to stream it on Twitch between its early access and launch. I don’t really think it means people in NA prefer a certain style.

As for the queues, if you want to try it without queues, you can get a month of premium which includes skipping queues for about the price of an infinite harvesting tool in GW2. :p

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BnS is new so people are curious. It has an interesting combat system and good PvP. NCSoft paid quite a few streamers to stream it on Twitch between its early access and launch. I don’t really think it means people in NA prefer a certain style.

As for the queues, if you want to try it without queues, you can get a month of premium which includes skipping queues for about the price of an infinite harvesting tool in GW2. :p

My picture above and the post above mine both say that premium members have queues also. They are shorter queues, but they still have to wait in a queue to log in.

I have premium. It shows a short queue but it’s skipped almost instantly. And it’s nowhere near the 30 mins-1 hour free players have to wait.

But back to the point…I dont think its art style is the main reason for it’s current popularity. Id say that is because of hype that NCSoft themselves paid to have built up on Twitch, as well as being new and people being curious about it.

(edited my post a bit to not go off topic. >.> )

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ok.

Blade and soul actually hit top twitch viewer # as mmorpg, as attached photo shows.

This means pretty much american people actually like japanese anime looking style, becuz only reason to play such game is to see their female char and if you watch twitch streamer who are american and non-asian, they actually do play female characters a lotttt regardless of the streamer is male or female.

But when compare this trend to tera, tera has absolutely no viewers, they also has like japanese anime-looking character, called Elins. But still tera isn’t popular game in NA, probly due to elins look childish.

This means,
American people like Asian art style only when only Those two factors, Japanese anime style looking is combined with the another factor, mature (like, huge chest size and hip size). That is why tera isn’t popular i guess.

What do you think? Do you like combined art style of japanese anime-looking and mature factors when it comes to play such foreign mmo?

You have jumped to the wrong conclusions, just like ANET does.

It’s on top because it’s new and shiney, hasn’t been a new mmo out in a while. Plus the combat is fun. BnS probably won’t stay up there over time though.

Yep, obviously ncsoft paid streamers to stream it.. more like BnS is a esport game with proper 1v1 balance while gw2 is in deep …

plz focus on topic, rather than info like ncsoft paid to twitch streamer or whatever -.-
so did you like that art style in bns then, and what about tera?

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so did you like that art style in bns then, and what about tera?

To me the art style in bns and Tera seem similar to each other…especially the backgrounds and scenery and stuff. I did not care much for the character designs in Tera. But I do like them in BnS. But what I like about both games is the combat systems.

I really hate big breast female characters with pubis cleavage. Like really. So nope, B&S never attracted me for its female chara design. Same as Tera, or even FF14 with their cat toys. In fact, I mostly play small races when I can ( both male or female). Popori, Lyn, Lalafell and of course, #asuramasterrace. They have the best animation/emotes, are cute and funny. Oh and B&S Lyn’s outfits are amazing. I’d love to have similar stuff for my asura.

Its just a bunch of streamers playing what is popular and new at the moment.

The only reason for it’s popularity is a few ‘choice’ streamers at the moment playing it. These choice streamers have massive followings and those followings simply watch what the streamers are playing. For instance, a popular streamer I watch going by the name Lirik will often put the title of a game not actually on Twitch (Meaning the Twitch database has no listing for it) as Barbie Game Girl. Since he has annually 10k+ viewers watching him that puts Barbie Game Girl at the top of the twitch games viewed list. Does it mean that game is popular, good or even a game for that matter? No… It means a popular streamer is playing a game and his viewers are watching, nothing more.

And I have my own picture example.
http://imgur.com/CBOStDz

People like the Create a Waifu simulator and Korea always prioritizes selling sex a lot in all their games~ it’s nothing really new and just an upgraded reskin finally being released in NA. Many people I know DL’d the game just to create a character and then barely played it afterwards.
Although too much freedom in character creation can also be terrifying once you run into all the ugly troll characters. :P
http://i.imgur.com/VOPHMb0.png

Blade and Soul is so popular on Twitch because it is newly released.
The game is great though.

I view even GW2’s art as edging too far into the japamation style. By preference, I’d take the artwork shown in Skyrim or the Dragon Age franchise.

Realism, as far as is possible.

Hadn’t looked this up, just did.

It’s popular, because it’s borderline porn, and twitch’s audience, people that spend near all their time on entertainment streamed to them in their home without any more substantial pursuits, are pathetically needy. Truth hurts.

Hey everybody, we’re locking this thread since topics in this forum should be directly related to subjects specific to Guild Wars 2.