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[feotakahari]

The question isn’t why gacha fandom is a screaming mess, it’s why Magic: the Gathering fandom isn’t a mess in the same way.

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[stardust_rifle]

Interesting.

In MORE contrast, my main gacha fandom, Ensemble Stars, has only just recently gotten any kind of ENG translation. If you seriously want to get into the lore of Enstars, you have to follow like 30 different translators, all of whom have their own blogs on a variety of separate websites, and there's also the problem of there just being mountains and mountains of lore, with no real easy jumping on point*.

You can engage with the lore without paying single cent or engaging with the gacha at all, but doing so is also kind of a major hassle and practically guarantees that the only people left standing after all of that will be hyper-invested, which leads to drama.

*god, it's kind of like western superhero comics, now that i think about it.