Fire Emblem Heroes Is Nintendo's First Mobile Game To Pass $1 Billion In Spending

Imagine spending crazy bank for JPEGs on a game that will one day be shut down and the only reminder will be the same JPEGs you spent money on, now stored for free on some site on the internet?

The fact that the most successful FE game is a mobile gacha game makes me sad. And I guess the same is true for many other franchises too

Eh. It's a good game

@Browny Imagine buying the same game for full price because it's a slightly kind of almost prettier version than the 10-20 year old original?! Now that's crazy.

@SteamEngenius
I can imagine such a purchase. At the end of the day, you spent money on a product that will still be playable provided you have the necessary hardware, and not at the mercy of the company shutting down the servers when the game stops being profitable.

@Browny And I can imagine spending on a mobile game if it gives you hours if enjoyment. It's the memories of playing that matter, not the piece of plastic you store away.

Then again the 1billion was probably from the top 50 Chinese whales anyway. Spending over the price of a normal game is a bit much to me as well.

@SteamEngenius
I'm of the mindset that if it can be had for free, why spend even a dime? Technically speaking, most of the content (if not all, not sure how it's changed for this particular game) is-- in theory-- free, just up to genuine chance.

At the end of the day I don't begrudge people for how they spend their money. It's theirs to do with as they please. I just find it hard to wrap my head around spending money on what amounts to a slot machine pull just to get a JPEG of Lyn in a skimpy bathing suit.

Moreover, I just shake my head at FEH in general for its contribution to the fandom of the series. But that's a personal gripe.

Best mobile game 😁

I tried it a while ago and I will say it is one of the few phone games I ever slightly liked at all. That said, all it did was just make me want to go play a real Fire Emblem. It's a watered-down Fire Emblem with microtransactions galore. Why anyone would play it over just playing an actual Fire Emblem is beyond me.

@SteamEngenius I’m not into this model of gaming but I agree with you. I’ve spent plenty of money over the years going to live music, movies, broadway shows, sporting events or going down to play craps with no expectation of winning. This is pure walletburn with no physical lasting value, but a great time while it’s happening.

Nothing lasts, take the good times where you can get them.

I hope Nintendo puts out a Dragalia Lost game on the Switch someday.

Zero interest in the game itself, but I've paid a silly amount to import the upcoming Heroes OST from Play-Asia (which only allowed for Express shipping... to the sum of over AU$80... and I was super reluctant too).

@roboshort
+1
I like the game and their characters, some are very interesting and adorable, XD
It's shame that for now, no plans for keeping the game more time....

What a gross practice, I will never support this type of greed, those profits are gained by exploitative methods 😤😤

@Browny This just happened with Final Fantasy Record Keeper. Last week, an in-game announcement informed players that the service is ending in September. Many players who put in tons of both time and money are grieving over it.

What I find unfortunate is that there doesn't seem to be incentive for companies to make a "farewell" offline release of their game after the service shuts down. From a game design standpoint, it'd be really cool that a game could be in development for x years and regularly bring in money so that the gameplay experience and content can be expanded and fine-tuned.

edit: I somehow forgot to wrap up my last point. It'd be cool to see all that time and effort be ossified into a "final version" that people in later generations of gaming could return to and enjoy.

This is incredibly sad and it shows how much money you can make off of people's addictions.

It was fun for a while but like with any gatcha game it becomes incredibly boring and the gambling aspects of the game can be dangerous if you're the type of person that has a hard time with self control.

@SteamEngenius it's of no use to argue, he/she doesn't get it. It's like the people that feel paying hundreds of dollars for a couple of years of gamepass is useless because you have nothing physical to show for it at the end? The tons of hours enjoying playing don't matter to these people, they just care for their boring dust collecting plastic boxes.

Man, and here I thought "gamepass" or "$70 a game" was gonna be the downfall of traditional consoles and gaming, but I was wrong. It looks like it'll be these "gacha" style of gaming, from pokemon go, to this, to genshin impact. Why spend the time, money and effort to make another metroid dread, and make $180m over however long, or the $1B in as much time, if not less.
But, and this is a big ol' but, if the games are in quality like genshin or warframe, then who knows. Might be a good future😬

@moodymcsorley
Sir or madam, do not talk to me of Record Keeper ending.

I am a long time keeper myself, and I am grieving over the game's sudden end. And I have dropped exactly $0 over the course of my time with the game.

I find, and this is entirely a selfish viewpoint I admit, that when companies take down these experiences completely, without ever trying to retool them as a standalone release to make one last buck, it says a lot about the genuine purpose of the game: that being to rake their player base for whatever they can.

But at the end of the day, we can take with us the memories of the experience. I'll take my time with Record Keeper with me to the grave, same as I'm taking my memories of Terra Battle with me.

Happy to live a country where gacha games like this are forbidden.

@Browny Just two weeks ago I started playing RK again (I never was committed: probably just around 100 total logins). and said to myself, "I forgot how much I enjoyed this!" Then the EOS announcement came, and I stopped playing completely.

I also played TB for a brief spell when it came out and was hoping to return to it a few months ago. When I saw it wasn't around anymore, I had a similar thought as I do abot RK: "Why can't they make a standalone, 'permanent' version of the game?"

So your point really sticks, unfortunately: The shutdown of these games reveals a get in, get out cash grab situation. But if they tried to respect the game's legacy with a one-time purchase offline edition, it'd give some artistic merit to the gacha model.

Half comes from Japan, the other half from alpharad trying and failing to get every character

I played this game a bit one time, I liked it enough but I thought it was weird that one you beat one section the enemies levels all restarted but your characters didn’t so if you kept the same characters you just swept. Maybe I’m missing something or maybe you’re just supposed to change characters idk

Glad gamers are having fun!

@Browny Nothing new. Imagine all that money people paid for on MMORPG monthly subscriptions + whatever additional paid content cosmetics that will eventually shut down too. At least these games has the option to never paying a cent.

It's really not hard to not spend money on this game. How are you people not getting all of those free summoning orbs?

I've been playing since launch with a couple breaks, and I've got about 60% of the roster with $0 spent. Not as generous as Dragalia, but still pretty good. Of course, none of them are fully maxed out, but I don't really care as long as I can get more anime jpegs who say nice things to me. At this point, I'd actually like to give them money for something, but the gacha isn't worth it and none of the merch has caught my eye.

@SteamEngenius If my options for ensuring continued access to my favorite games are meticulously maintaining multiple original copies of those games along with several of the consoles and controllers needed to play them, or just getting a newer, shinier version of them every decade or two, I'll take the latter. I've been begging for a Xenoblade X port for years just so it's not lost along with my failing Wii U. And before someone says it, no, piracy isn't an option.

Great game!!! Definitely my fave mobile game.

@PtM
I disagree with this take; if you're viewing the actual of playing the game as "payment", are you actually having fun with the game, or is it more of a chore?

I get the idea of the more you play, the greater the chance of you spending money, but if time spent gaming is an "expense", I think maybe this ain't the hobby for you.

I've been playing since the 1st year, the game was a lot of fun in the first 3 years. To me, it feels like its become very stale. Every new mode requires spending $ and the new modes haven't been fun for awhile. I hope that they make a mode worth playing that doesn't feel like spam on the home screen.

I've played this game almost literally every day since launch and have never spent a single dime on it and have never been progression blocked or anything similar. One of the best mobile games ever made by a longshot.

glad people are spending money to keep my My Nintendo Platinum Point farm up and running