Going to do one more Armored Core run and then some retrospectives of the Gundam Build series. It's time to talk about somethings I like instead of despise!!!
They can create multiple gundam game linked to Gundam Metaverse Home (Pokemon Home). That literally use less than 3 million for following effort: For example: Gundam UC Engage got GP00 (Gundam UC Engage). Then SD Gundam G Generation ETERNAL also got GP00. Once the player got it on different game, they can transfer it to Gundam Metaverse Home like Pokemom Home. Then it just as a text different for us to memories we played different gundam game and we achieved. The best scenario we can use it on next game with slightly lower stat of course. We know Pokemon is the first game that make the next version fun, because they carried the last version's data. Call of Duty doing it too. I meant there would be more game doing like this, in next decade, Mark my word. It literally just copied database and write some database linking and import script just to move data from one game to one game, literally cost less than 0.1 million when the companies build the base foundation. Especially Like the Call of Duty: " The weapons you can use in Modern Warfare 3 at launch range from a selection of new guns and returning Modern Warfare 2 guns. This means you have the choice of experimenting with new guns or sticking to old favourites "
That's $130,000,000 they could have spent making Gunpla more accessible to a global audience instead of gating everything to P-Bandai. let that sink in.
Imagine as a whole that Japanese business are open to the western maket when in fact that its still 75 percent isolated to the Japanese market and I wish I was kidding
The funniest thing to me is that Bandai/Namco 100% own a franchise that would've fit the theme of a digital nft metaverse. Imagine owning Digimon but choosing to force Gundam into a online metaverse? Like Digimon was *right* there lmao.
NFTs would have just killed Digimon, too. People thought Serial Experiments Lain and NFTs made sense, but the soulless use of crypto just taints whatever it touches.
@@blumiu2426 Oh i agree 100% - NFTs are garbage no matter the IP attached to it. I just feel like "collectible digital monster that can evolve into different monsters" would've been an easier sell than "here's a bunch of gundam related avatars in a bad chatroom game from 2006."
Yeah no. I rather they pump the vital bracelet series more. Fix the app and maybe link it with an mmo so we get deeper experiences with the digimon we raise with our digivices. Like I want some sorta story world hybrid game with integration with Vital bracelets and maybe other vpets in the future.
Yeah just recently Bandai started promoting the Las Vegas Racing GP. So they made a whole RX78 with the colors of a formula racer. But why use a Gundam when they could have just used something from *Future GPX cyber formula?*
When I first learned that the Metaverse's Gunpla store -- the only aspect of it that could have ever conceivably gotten me and many others to interact with it in any way -- fascilitated its purchases by having you LEAVE THE GAME and access a competely separate website, I laughed long and loud. They spent 130 million dollars on an interactive launcher for a WEBSITE. This level of incompetence is truly rare.
Well, the fact that they thought NFT's were a good thing to begin with tells volumes about their intelligence. If anything, NFT's tend to make it clear which companies are run by idiots simply by the fact that they are the only ones who bite on such an obvious bait.
tbh, i've never met or heard of a well off person who can acknowledge that humans need certain amounts of food, sleep and hygiene to function lmao. well off people think humans generate all their energy breathing air or some absolutely moronic nonsense like that
Bandai could have just made a gundam mmo but no, some out of touch executive saw the shit idea Zuckerberg had that everyone was hating on and decided "what about we make that with gundam?"
Did they miss what happened to the Facebook metaverse? What's happening to live services? What happened to NFTs and crypto? Do these corporate executives live in our universe?
i mean, they more or less do live in an alternate universe, they live lives of such unimaginable wealth and comfort that they're completely insulated from what happens in reality
throwing AAA game cash, above AAA game minimum requirements into what totals up to a website with a chat room that you can make an avatar walk around in... is certainly a risky move
Honestly, Bandai needs to lose this money and take this financial black eye. They've been making progressively worse decisions every year for the last few years and a harsh wake up call is in order. I've never gotten into many of the games, so I can't comment on that. But I've been buying model kits for decades, and am getting progressively more upset as time goes on, seeing them shift more and more of their releases to P-Bandai, and pushing the price further and further up. The Kampfer Schwer is a good example. They took a 22 year old, aged and dated kit, changed a couple runners, and slapped a huge price hike on it. I can get the MG Kampfer for ~$40, but the Schwer is $71. That's absolutely ridiculous. Don't even get me started on the Mk-V and F90 being made PBandai, despite having completely standard retail boxes, clearly showing that they weren't meant to be PBandai, but Bandai's management changed to it so close to release that they didn't even have time to change the boxes to the normal PBandai style. It feels like we're at a point where they're releasing more time-gated and fomo-centric kits than they are normal releases, and it would only make sense given Bandai's recent behavior, that if this metaverse project ever actually took off, they would make metaverse exclusive kits you could only buy at certain times through it.
Fear not bro, their games suck as well. Gundam Evolution died within a year after release, what the fuck? It had so much potential and was even regarded as "the better OW" than some people but the management sticked to their greedy and shitty monetization which eventually lead the game to its death. Bandai really needs to stop making shit decisions and start to appreciate the franchise
@@BeyondDaX They are adapting what came to the app and the other missing half, so Trafalgar Logs has been uploading the episodes as they came out, just the first half released over 24 episodes of 20 minutes each without counting the app battles really, so believe me, it definitely isnt a movie. Hopefully we get a release date soon.
"Full" "anime" "production". It's just gonna be the anime cutscenes slapped into a quick ONA with maybe some voice over narration between scenes filling in the gaps that were VN scenes in the game. Calling it.
@@Blackcloud288 They showed scenes of the second half of the story that wasnt in the app. Plus the lenght, the chapters without much of the gameplay of the app could go from 20 minutes to 39 minutes. Thats why you need to be informaed before making assumptions. There were also a total of 24/25 episodes more or less, just with the first half we got.
They’re just trying to push that awful shitty mobile game before it drops here. Just look at Gundam UC engage the game dropped Oct 17th and in less than 2 months, they’ve dropped 7 mobile suit & 6 Pilot banners 😂😂😂 Leave it to Bandai to heavily monetize their own IP’s
A Gundam MMO, a Gundam game that plays like Armored Core 6 (Yes I know there’s MSG Unicorn but that’s for the PS3 and it’s in Japanese only) or hell, I want to see fan make a Gundam game for VR where WE can pilot our favorite mobile suits, engage in space fights etc. They can do so much and yet Bandai does…. yeah.
Don't they know what we want is pretty one stop shop of Gundam - where we watch previous anime series and movies without bothering streaming services and VPN, where we buy and trade gunpla without going to Amazon, ebay, AliExpress, where gunpla builders share techniques without going to youtube, where people discuss sci-fi without going to reddit... If Bandai's idea of metaverse is like that, it is pretty much Facebook's fault making people think like that.
@@masonfreeman4349hard to top overwatch as a clone, especially when they got an army of simps who came straight outta r34 after watching mercy fut4 sloppy toppy compilation 13, their fan base is as strong as their s3xual urges nonetheless I commend Gundam for trying, but still they fumbled the bag with how badly they managed it like every other game they make, Bandai's profit strats be like: make game, cash in on desperate fans desperate for gundam content, announce shutdown of game, rinse and repeat. I wish they would at least take a page of fromsofts book and their recent success of the release of armored core 6, like Im not asking for no crypto meta verse bs, I just want a good and fun and actually working gundam game
What I find hilarious is... Bandai is the same company that published Fires of Rubicon, proving that it's not impossible to make a great mecha game that people are dying to buy and play.
Worse yet, FromSoft has made a Gundam game before. A Unicorn game for the PS3. I cannot believe no one at Bandai thought of doing something like it again
Regarding the anime, it seems the guy behind it is the same one as who made the original Build Divers as well as Kyōkai Senki who seems to be a complete hack yet constantly seems to be given new projects.
Everyone who wasn’t a lowbrow influencer wannabe or celebrity getting offered an NFT for free could tell from just hearing of the concept that the NFT bubble wouldn’t last even a year. Even Ubisoft planned an NFT project but got bullied so hard by fans and younger staff that they rightfully dropped it. I’m baffled at how little intelligence it takes to run a multi-billion dollar company and conversely angry I have to work a 9-5
The boomers in power would always ruin everything, this applies to Bandai too. Boomers have no passion and only care about milking the hell out of any franchise they could, while youngsters who are passionate are getting crapped on by the boomers. Edit: when their Gundam Metaverse project flopped so hard, the boomers in power would always shift the blame on the youngsters (typical Japanese toxic work culture).
That explains.. WFM had so much potential in developing an entire new universe, digging into more topics that were related to modern technology used in warfare, surely it would be a different taste than the old gundam series that focus on old school wars. Who the fuck thought 24episodes were enough for an entirely new gundam series?? I'm so disappointed, wfm could be more than what it is now, attracting more new generation fans into the entire franchise What I'm disappointed more is that Bandai thought that this mehverse is worth fucking up their core series of gundam anime
@@Peasham I don't rly get what you mean. You're saying that MSs are not suitable to be implemented irl? I'm just saying that WFM had the potential being a relatively new series to implement some of the concepts that were introduced in these few years. Say AI, drones (they did), some Internet stuff, etc. Past series focused on tanks, spaceships, and other pretty old school warfare elements. So I thought that WFM could show something different
The amount of sacrificed time, resources, and past, present, and future projects that could have given them profits and drew in new fans from sheer curiousity all for this metaverse that the vast majority have moved on from a societal standpoint is going to hurt them for years, maybe the next decade. I have zero interest in this project and I hope this hurts them so bad they are forced to actually make sound decisions again and produce more quality products again. The gundam gaming front should be booming right now, hell for the last 5 years really.
Bandai severly needs a wake up call from Gundam Fans East and West. From the constant meandering P-Bandai Releases, Popular Suits that need either a reprint or a rework entirely. To the constant games that are monetized to hell with severe server problems, balance issues, and performance issues. If the game doesnt do well, theyll just smother it and move onwards, and of course, the Asinine Metaverse that diminishes the franchise so much. The amazing stories, suits, symbols, and factions, all to push some awful corporate agenda. I respect all 3D Printer Bros who are 3D Printing the Leaked Metaverse kits, good, let Bandai know we're upset
The bros 3d printing stuff doesn't show Bandai we're upset lmao. It just shows that..... tbh I'm not too sure wtf goes on in the management over there and how they perceive all this. Idk if it's culture, naivety, greed or a combination of many other factors but the end result is that they are so out of touch with reading the god damn room or market in this case that they are burning cash.
ISTG, if Metaverse had a role in rushing G-Witch. That was a reverse Gundam X situation where it had EVERYTHING going in its favor only to shoot itself in the foot and abruptly end. From potential Magnum Opus to Wasted Potential.
Bandai lost me when they replaced the excellent breaker series.. with nu gundam breaker... holy crap... and it has been all downhill since then. Not that every gundam game in the past was a banger.. but most of them had some endearing charm.. even target in sight wich was notoriously panned as a bad game is still leagues above nu gundam breaker. Also the only reason why battlefront 2 still exists on PC is because the game is still making cash on consoles and they simply have to pay a couple of slave coders to translate it to PC...
About the ages of the old characters. It can be explained (excused) that they're using avatars based on their younger appearance, but they're actually older in real life. However, someone I talked to elsewhere pointed out that Reiji was not supposed to have the Gundam he was using, because that's the same Gundam Sekai would later use and have it customized into something else. My memory in this is cloudy, so idk for sure.
Still is weird as hell they’d customize avatars to look like children and disguise their ages. Especially since they know they’ll be interacting a lot with actual children with how Gunpla is in the verse.
@thatnerdyouseeeverywhere7536 Yep. I don't think Bandai put a lot of thought into this. They just needed the Gunpla to sell and made a rushed advertisement in the form of a 3-episode anime.
Not necessarily cause having a spare model of extra parts for another or different kit is there. Build fighters try can be a good example of that cause while we do have the kamiki burning Gundam we also see the try burning Gundam in the club room, not to mention the spare parts of the build burning that yuu was given to by his sister. So something like that I don't see as such a stretch to believe. Not to mention registering different model kits so it's possible that there's different models saved to be used.
Eitherway, I'm GLAD Gundam Evolution shut down. It was such an awful cash grab. Look, I understand the people who've been itching to play as their favourite suits, but that game was NOT it. Externally, zero marketing, awful patch cycle, an unnecessary amount of microtransactions and progression walls, etc etc Internally, suits felt weightless and light, gameplay feedback like hits and shooting felt so flimsy, not to mention it being ANOTHER hero based shooter etc etc It's such a pathetic attempt at a cash grab...
@@acupoflatte8594 There was also no feeling of scale at all. It felt like any other garbage hero shooter but everyone has a gundam skin. Honestly, you would be better off playing Paladins and using the "totally not gundam" skins.
@@Scaevola9449 couldn't agree more. The most charming thing about gundam is that they are huge robots, each easily the size of a mountain. Yet in the game almost nothing gave a sense of it. Why the hell are the hallways so wide and huge, as if it was designed for MSs to use, which is kinda stupid, since that would be very impractical. Sure you could see some minor details like trees or whatsoever, but those are too minor to give us the actual feeling of piloting a huge robot. Like you said, its just another hero shooter with the gundam skins, not even the IP, cause i dont see anything specially done with the IP except it has gundam related emotes, which is underwhelming. oh they do have the titles or shit that nobody cares. They didn't care to introduce the story, supposingly the soul to the franchise...
could have made a proper mecha gundam game not a gacha, not an mmo, not dynasty warrior, not an SD game, but a PROPER MECHA GAME 130M for all of these....
I know majority of people think its hilarious, but its really a greater problem of why 3D Artists can't have $hit doesn't just happen to Bandai doesn't matter how big or small you are there are people who will steal or even hack their way into getting your files and sharing them with every body and act like you deserved it. We can't even upload to Sketch Fab anymore because people just rip the files from the website with out paying.
We needed more gunpla where I live. Serious stock shortage of many releases in the last 4 years. Not enough stocks for everyone here. Bandai: We spent our money elsewhere, so, uh...yeah...
I have never seen a listing for the standard MG Gelgoog 2.0 anywhere in the past 4-5 years. They just can't be found. The only one I've been able to nab was the Anavel Gato custom that was, of course, P-Bandai.
@@OuroborosChoked luckily I’m a huge Char fan so I didn’t mind going for the red one, but I do really want a standard Gelgoog as well as a standard Zaku II, but they’re just gone
I think Evo was screwed regardless of this metaverse project's existence, but Bandai burning 130 million dollars sure didn't help it either. Evo's problems are/were its own. The shoddy servers in those first couple of seasons, the split regions that saw NA players migrating to JP region for ranked games, and the worst offender of them all, the monetization. I think once players realized they could not unlock all the mobile suits without opening their wallets, they quit the game and went elsewhere. Me personally, I didn't care about cosmetics since they all looked like shit, save for a select few like the Char Zaku II skin, that cost 4k green currency. Currency that could only be earned via getting duplicates from the game's loot boxes. I forget who did it first, 4chan or reddit, but there was a person who did the math and figured it was about $400 at least to get the 4k green currency during the limited time that the skin was available. The player count dropping off a cliff like a rock sealed the game's fate then and there. Each subsequent season saw a temporary rise in player count, only for them to leave again about a week later. Those players that came back when a new suit was released didn't bother coming back in the last three seasons and here we are, about 175 player count during the hours where the daily challenges refresh. TLDR: Metaverse played no part in Gundam Evolution's shut down. That 130 million could have kept the Evolution going, but I doubt they would have put more money into the game even if they hadn't thrown that money in the metaverse project. Best you can do is hope that rumor of Gundam Evolution 2 is true and they announce it next year or whenever that steam post said it would. That or the efforts to get private servers up and running bare fruit.
Per se a gundam first person shooter is an excellent idea, but not the way Evo did. It should have had a solid single player campaign and zero gravity maps, with a lot of customization for the mobile suits.
They could have at least listened to the fans and fixed the bugs, or un-region locked the game. That's proof they don't listen because even bamco said they made the metaverse for *The fans* like who even asked for that bs?
It seems to me Bandai has always been using Gundam Franchise as a way to sell its own merchandise, or at the very least adding micro transactions at every corner. I thought after so many failure they would eventually realise make a good game first, profit will follow. Looks like they still haven’t learnt anything.
Second Life + Gundam Breaker 3 Boom, you got your gundam metaverse. A digital catalog of all existing model kits (with some modifications for compatibility and such) and provide tools for users to create custom parts and animations. That is what a gundam metaverse should be, not a glorified chat room with store links that open in a browser
yes this exactly how do you fuck this up and for monetization you sell digital part kits plus for a lil extra the stl or what have you file so the player can print off their own real world parts for their irl gupla they show off to their friends to get them interested in joining in
I'm dead convinced at this point that Bamco's heads either don't like money, or they're so senile that they've forgotten the value of it when it comes to Gundam. Just think of what that money could have gone into. Evolution was killed before its dev team even had a chance to finish what they had planned, GBO2 is still going but they're obviously understaffed and there's a plethora of issues that still plague it, SRW games rarely come out (especially strange considering 100 managed to break into global release status and did fairly well.), all of these situations could have used that money. Hell there's so many other game types they could use the IP for, imagine a fighting game developed by Arc Sys for one. Even with the concept of Metaverse, if the idea is to slowly bring Build Fighters' concept to life.... Why not start the Build Fighters dream with a series of Gunpla specifically made to be scanned into a game....maybe an EX-Versus esque multiplayer game. Not necessarily complex models, maybe more on the simple side to start...but specifically built to be mix matched. The technology to do that totally exists(remember Skylanders?), and it'd give them an excuse to produce a whole line of complimentary gunpla. It's not perfect but it'd be a start, and yes its a bit money grubbing but hey...it's at least an idea that makes sense. More sense than a glorified interactive website/Meta wannabe that barely works and could easily have just been a browser experience. (for a fraction of the cost.) Even when it comes to Gunpla itself, the thing at the center of it all, we're still in a Gunpla shortage. There's so many designs that still have yet to get a kit release, or a more recent or advanced release. Some really well known Mobile Suits haven't had a new kit since the damn 90's. Something other than yet another version of Grandpa or the tie-in kits. Witch is over and yet there's still not an at least MG level kit of Aerial Rebuild or Calabarn. P-Bandai could be expanded into something more widespread. They could dip more into other properties like Armored Core. There's just so much. It's insane, they spent this amount of money on a virtual social space that barely works and is essentially made to promote Gunpla, meanwhile that shortage is still a thing and that same amount of money could have been spent to just...make more or better Gunpla. There's so many exceedingly obvious things they could do with this IP, things that people would actually want and yet they make this vapid joke of a program no one asked for and with no feature anyone is interested in, and are still obsessed with chasing the NFT scheme when most of the planet has moved on already make it make sense!
bandai drip feeding me the shuffle alliance EXCLUSIVELY through P-bandai, while i can get the fucking windham and *dagger* off a store shelf with no problem is nothing short of infuriating.
They could have spent a fraction of that money and used it to give G-witch more episodes, and probably have a bunch left over to fund several more anime afterwards. I could tell that the OVA tie-in was going to be shit about five minutes into the first episode too
It’s so annoying considering there are much better things for Gundam to work on. Localizing super robot wars, making Gundam Maxiboost next iteration or bigger in the west, making the next Gundam breaker that isn’t anything like new breaker. Like seriously, those are all bound to be much more profitable and less risky. This whole meta verse business has screwed so many franchises so I can’t for the life of me understand how they thought this was a good idea.
when game companies realized that NFT and Metaverse mostly sink black hole for money for neither the gamers or themselves..... only thing got me watch the anime bc Chisato's VA (LycoReco) in it lol
The metaverse anime also completely disregarded the existence of GBO. It's never explained what happened to GBO and why everyone's playing Gundam Metaverse instead. The original gundam battles were even referenced in the first GBD series (as in before ReArise) so there's no excuse for that.
2:33 Bandai Namco already has Bandai Namco Games. The fact that other Bamco games like their own actual MMO, Blue Protocol and other Bamco games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse 1 and 2 have better character customization is frankly a truly embarrassing look.
Seriously, it almost feels like G-Witch was cut short in favor of this crap. If G-Witch was this kind of success even with its rushed second cour, imagine how big of a hit it had been had it been allowed to fully flesh everything out as was clearly originally intended.
@@matteste Either this or the Seed movie is where the money went. With the abundance of distinct designs in season 2 and the rushing through beats in season 2's back half, there was room for at least another season to let things breathe more. Might have gotten more non P-Bandai kits out of it to boot. Like, I enjoyed almost every MS design in the show, but unless it's a gundam or a big 3 design, we barely saw them in action.
10:14 You forgot about MSGO, which was THE Gundam MMO IMO. It got shutdown in April of 2022. It's a shame, after the Taiwan server shuttered the Japanese server was the last hope for the game. It had a long run but it could've been longer.
@@savagemaelstrom9645 I'm aware, I've dabbled in the private server for it. There's a reason the original game's lifespan wasn't even 2 years. At least you could pilot tanks and stuff though.
Good ol Bandai so out of touch with their IP fans, they are lucky with the new Digimon card game but I bet they won't make a digital game out of it, like Master Duel, because that's what fans want and they hate doing what fans want.
if they want to bounce back with gaming, i think the first step would be porting gundam breaker 3 to pc, i'm pretty sure by just doing that would help them tremendously
3:28 You mean aside from virtual spaces like the hub areas of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games, the hub area of Jump Force (which seems to have been based on the Xenoverse games) and just Blue Protocol in general?
this won't change because people are afraid to speak up against the fat soulless Japanese CEO because you can sue people for basically saying bad shit about you in Japan. Even if it's true defamation of character is considered something you can use over.
Ac6 was a reminder that you shouldn’t compromise or accept a half baked game just to get your mecha fix, sadly everything the Gundam ip has been doing lately just tells me they’ll keep crapping out half baked overly monetized and unpolished trash until they fully crash and burn or just outright say “welp, we tried I guess there’s no money to be made from making games!” We can only hope between everything they do failing spectacularly and AC6 being widely praised they’ll pull it together and realize making good games first and foremost is a good idea.
GBO2 ain’t gonna die. I’ve been playing that consistently for a long time and it looks like the support for it has only grown. I just hope they make a 3rd game or something.
@@heroicdairy and? the game has always done well on playstation, the fact that it's survived for 5 years is proof, specially when you look at how all these other games went
>implying build divers didnt already ruin the concept by turning gunpla battle into a VR game >ignoring that build fighters never properly ended anyway despite there being multiple ovas that could have finally covered sei and sekai's meeting on the world stage there's seriously been like 4 different ovas since try ended and none of them cover world tournament. the last one even rolls back the clock to build fighters S1 time line to basically make a big toy commercial and retroactively make the build burning gundam lame by giving it a rifle and shield. i dont think sekai and sei even look at each other in the metaverse ova, oh but they make DAMN sure meijin and sei have their big rematch...for a second time.
Bandai needs to just return to making kits and anime. That is good enough that I have this plastic addiction and a big fucking backlog of kits, btw they need to reprint a fuckton of kits.
they get what they deserve, i want this build series to end years ago, i want more original series not this cashgrab , i mean witch of mercury might benefit of longer season but nope gotta keep this build crapper going forever.
Bandai should do what James Cameron did for his Avatar film, develop the technology needed until it is doable, I don't believe that Bandai don't have the money to do that. But instead they throw money just because they are too ambitious and greedy for they own good and had to shut off/ cut spending to save money.
Mecha games are better left to literally anyone else other than Bandi... now that I think of it, Bandi is only 1 letter off from Bandit. I guess that's one way to rat yourself out.
The problem with Bandai is that they are not making games, they are making consumer products, as long as they can milk money from the game, they are happy with it. I guess there are sufficient evidence that prove my point, like EVO, GBO mobile games and gundam breaker. They tried so hard to minimize their effort to create shit games and expected people to like it. I really like Gundam franchise but to this is point I really think Bandai management is beyond redemption.
I so disappointed. I so hard like Evo, so hard dont like GB2 and metaverse shit... they just killing normal game for nothing... it hurt... thank you Evo, good luck out there. And thank you autor, your video - hard and shit true. TT_TT I will miss Evo very much
They should've made gundam breaker playable and cross platform. Im guessing their next gundam breaker will be named gundam build breaker and probably go like gundam breaker gunpla warfare type of gacha for parts and skills while also obtaining f2p parts. Lots of ideas i give them that but they're slowly lacking the foundation to continue it on the long run. GBGW and Gundam Evolution died and so is the Gundam IBO mobile game (but hey urdr hunt movie is in progress which is nc). I hope Gundam Metaverse got their expected goal to further make their metaverse much more Gundam build like
Have never heard of this metaverse until now. Oh wow, what a waste of money... The only Gundam game I remember that made me like it is Shin Gundam Musou. Although it lacks the crossover story between each series, at least it was enjoyable enough. Couldn't get myself to play SD Gundam CrossRay because the gameplay was so boring.
As an ammeter game developer, one of my dreams is to some day make a Gundam game. It's probably never going to happen, but even if I get the chance, this kind of thing makes me think I should not take it. I can just design my own mechs if I need to.
Going to do one more Armored Core run and then some retrospectives of the Gundam Build series. It's time to talk about somethings I like instead of despise!!!
They can create multiple gundam game linked to Gundam Metaverse Home (Pokemon Home). That literally use less than 3 million for following effort:
For example:
Gundam UC Engage got GP00 (Gundam UC Engage).
Then SD Gundam G Generation ETERNAL also got GP00.
Once the player got it on different game, they can transfer it to Gundam Metaverse Home like Pokemom Home. Then it just as a text different for us to memories we played different gundam game and we achieved. The best scenario we can use it on next game with slightly lower stat of course.
We know Pokemon is the first game that make the next version fun, because they carried the last version's data. Call of Duty doing it too. I meant there would be more game doing like this, in next decade, Mark my word. It literally just copied database and write some database linking and import script just to move data from one game to one game, literally cost less than 0.1 million when the companies build the base foundation.
Especially Like the Call of Duty:
" The weapons you can use in Modern Warfare 3 at launch range from a selection of new guns and returning Modern Warfare 2 guns. This means you have the choice of experimenting with new guns or sticking to old favourites "
*I agree F this metaverse bullshit!*
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Actually VRC is WAY more interactive, because you can go to game worlds made by users while being a Sazabi or other mobile suit.
That's $130,000,000 they could have spent making Gunpla more accessible to a global audience instead of gating everything to P-Bandai. let that sink in.
Imagine as a whole that Japanese business are open to the western maket when in fact that its still 75 percent isolated to the Japanese market and I wish I was kidding
Or fix gbo2
After seeing what happened to WfM,Global audience can fuck itself
@@NwaaNwaagbo2 unfixable as long as they kept it p2p gonna be easy to cheat the server
Imagine if they just hired EA to make a game instead…. I mean GTA V’s total budget including marketing was 120 million
The funniest thing to me is that Bandai/Namco 100% own a franchise that would've fit the theme of a digital nft metaverse.
Imagine owning Digimon but choosing to force Gundam into a online metaverse? Like Digimon was *right* there lmao.
NFTs would have just killed Digimon, too. People thought Serial Experiments Lain and NFTs made sense, but the soulless use of crypto just taints whatever it touches.
@@blumiu2426 Oh i agree 100% - NFTs are garbage no matter the IP attached to it. I just feel like "collectible digital monster that can evolve into different monsters" would've been an easier sell than "here's a bunch of gundam related avatars in a bad chatroom game from 2006."
Yeah no. I rather they pump the vital bracelet series more. Fix the app and maybe link it with an mmo so we get deeper experiences with the digimon we raise with our digivices.
Like I want some sorta story world hybrid game with integration with Vital bracelets and maybe other vpets in the future.
Yeah just recently Bandai started promoting the Las Vegas Racing GP.
So they made a whole RX78 with the colors of a formula racer. But why use a Gundam when they could have just used something from *Future GPX cyber formula?*
@@tbc1880 Id like that too or at least something else not metaverse related. Or even something like a fighter like how vital brace trailer looked.
When I first learned that the Metaverse's Gunpla store -- the only aspect of it that could have ever conceivably gotten me and many others to interact with it in any way -- fascilitated its purchases by having you LEAVE THE GAME and access a competely separate website, I laughed long and loud. They spent 130 million dollars on an interactive launcher for a WEBSITE. This level of incompetence is truly rare.
Well, the fact that they thought NFT's were a good thing to begin with tells volumes about their intelligence.
If anything, NFT's tend to make it clear which companies are run by idiots simply by the fact that they are the only ones who bite on such an obvious bait.
Bandai management seems to be horribly out of touch
Seems to be a trend with Jap companies
* cough * Nintendo Konami * cough *
Boomers who don't even watch gundam
dont you mean "every well off person on earth is so out of touch they should be labelled clinically r3t4rd3d" ?
tbh, i've never met or heard of a well off person who can acknowledge that humans need certain amounts of food, sleep and hygiene to function lmao. well off people think humans generate all their energy breathing air or some absolutely moronic nonsense like that
@@saturationstation1446 Huh?
Bandai could have just made a gundam mmo but no, some out of touch executive saw the shit idea Zuckerberg had that everyone was hating on and decided "what about we make that with gundam?"
They had a MMO, UCGO Universal Century Gundam Online (almost 20 years ago, was BAD, way worse than any other 20 year old MMO)
Did they miss what happened to the Facebook metaverse? What's happening to live services? What happened to NFTs and crypto?
Do these corporate executives live in our universe?
i mean, they more or less do live in an alternate universe, they live lives of such unimaginable wealth and comfort that they're completely insulated from what happens in reality
throwing AAA game cash, above AAA game minimum requirements into what totals up to a website with a chat room that you can make an avatar walk around in... is certainly a risky move
Honestly, Bandai needs to lose this money and take this financial black eye. They've been making progressively worse decisions every year for the last few years and a harsh wake up call is in order. I've never gotten into many of the games, so I can't comment on that. But I've been buying model kits for decades, and am getting progressively more upset as time goes on, seeing them shift more and more of their releases to P-Bandai, and pushing the price further and further up. The Kampfer Schwer is a good example. They took a 22 year old, aged and dated kit, changed a couple runners, and slapped a huge price hike on it. I can get the MG Kampfer for ~$40, but the Schwer is $71. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Don't even get me started on the Mk-V and F90 being made PBandai, despite having completely standard retail boxes, clearly showing that they weren't meant to be PBandai, but Bandai's management changed to it so close to release that they didn't even have time to change the boxes to the normal PBandai style.
It feels like we're at a point where they're releasing more time-gated and fomo-centric kits than they are normal releases, and it would only make sense given Bandai's recent behavior, that if this metaverse project ever actually took off, they would make metaverse exclusive kits you could only buy at certain times through it.
Don’t forget you’re also paying a little more than 30% more on US p-bandai than JP & SG
At least bandai do a lot better than what EA and Rockstar ruin their games
And whoever decided to go KPS plastic and use the universal injection runners, there is a special place in hell for him/her
Fear not bro, their games suck as well. Gundam Evolution died within a year after release, what the fuck? It had so much potential and was even regarded as "the better OW" than some people but the management sticked to their greedy and shitty monetization which eventually lead the game to its death. Bandai really needs to stop making shit decisions and start to appreciate the franchise
Thirteenth most popular franchise in the goddamn world, and they're scared of investing in it despite it literally keeping a genre alive.
no wonder we get so much bad luck, it's the damn number! 😂
Good news about Urdr Hunt closing is that it reached its earnings goal and thus its being made into a full anime production.
But no one knows if its a movie, an OVA or a series or just a web series
@@BeyondDaX They are adapting what came to the app and the other missing half, so Trafalgar Logs has been uploading the episodes as they came out, just the first half released over 24 episodes of 20 minutes each without counting the app battles really, so believe me, it definitely isnt a movie.
Hopefully we get a release date soon.
"Full" "anime" "production". It's just gonna be the anime cutscenes slapped into a quick ONA with maybe some voice over narration between scenes filling in the gaps that were VN scenes in the game. Calling it.
@@Blackcloud288 They showed scenes of the second half of the story that wasnt in the app.
Plus the lenght, the chapters without much of the gameplay of the app could go from 20 minutes to 39 minutes. Thats why you need to be informaed before making assumptions.
There were also a total of 24/25 episodes more or less, just with the first half we got.
They’re just trying to push that awful shitty mobile game before it drops here. Just look at Gundam UC engage the game dropped Oct 17th and in less than 2 months, they’ve dropped 7 mobile suit & 6 Pilot banners 😂😂😂
Leave it to Bandai to heavily monetize their own IP’s
The Master Grade line died for this.
A Gundam MMO, a Gundam game that plays like Armored Core 6 (Yes I know there’s MSG Unicorn but that’s for the PS3 and it’s in Japanese only) or hell, I want to see fan make a Gundam game for VR where WE can pilot our favorite mobile suits, engage in space fights etc. They can do so much and yet Bandai does…. yeah.
Don't they know what we want is pretty one stop shop of Gundam - where we watch previous anime series and movies without bothering streaming services and VPN, where we buy and trade gunpla without going to Amazon, ebay, AliExpress, where gunpla builders share techniques without going to youtube, where people discuss sci-fi without going to reddit... If Bandai's idea of metaverse is like that, it is pretty much Facebook's fault making people think like that.
>Make new f2p gundam game
>too much grind
>hyper monetization
>close after 1 year
>repeat
Evo died for this
Evo was dead regardless
no evo was dead before this iven was a thing
EVO’s death is unrelated to this, but Bamco’s poor management is still a great factor
Overwatch clone* simple as. XD
@@masonfreeman4349hard to top overwatch as a clone, especially when they got an army of simps who came straight outta r34 after watching mercy fut4 sloppy toppy compilation 13, their fan base is as strong as their s3xual urges nonetheless I commend Gundam for trying, but still they fumbled the bag with how badly they managed it like every other game they make, Bandai's profit strats be like: make game, cash in on desperate fans desperate for gundam content, announce shutdown of game, rinse and repeat. I wish they would at least take a page of fromsofts book and their recent success of the release of armored core 6, like Im not asking for no crypto meta verse bs, I just want a good and fun and actually working gundam game
step one: take a gmod darkrp sever and theme it with gundam stuff on it
step two: ?
step three: porfit
Henry stickmin reference?
What I find hilarious is... Bandai is the same company that published Fires of Rubicon, proving that it's not impossible to make a great mecha game that people are dying to buy and play.
But that's it. Bamco is the publisher while FromSoftware is the developer of AC6. Bamco doesn't care about their consumers, FromSoftware does.
Worse yet, FromSoft has made a Gundam game before. A Unicorn game for the PS3. I cannot believe no one at Bandai thought of doing something like it again
@@Herr_Gamer Again, bamco doesn't care. They knew good Gundam games could be made. They just don't want to spend any effort on them. Sad really.
@@Herr_Gamer I had completely removed that. I have no recollection of the PS3 era.
Hiring FromSoftware to make a new Gundam game seems like the easiest W Bandai could take right now
Regarding the anime, it seems the guy behind it is the same one as who made the original Build Divers as well as Kyōkai Senki who seems to be a complete hack yet constantly seems to be given new projects.
Well that explains why the writing was bad.
@@MusicFan752 at least it better than what Disney has been doing write a shitty movie
It's like Square Enix's love affair with Nomura
Hm no wonder why I thought build divers was shitty.
After AC6 I say let From Software take the gundam world and make a game! 😂😂
I'm glad I've trusted my instincts. Somehow I knew this would be a cash trap.
I already heard how bad NFTs are (bad for Environment and they're worthless in value) and Bandai is very late on NFT decline.
Everyone who wasn’t a lowbrow influencer wannabe or celebrity getting offered an NFT for free could tell from just hearing of the concept that the NFT bubble wouldn’t last even a year. Even Ubisoft planned an NFT project but got bullied so hard by fans and younger staff that they rightfully dropped it. I’m baffled at how little intelligence it takes to run a multi-billion dollar company and conversely angry I have to work a 9-5
Heard something similar with Hasbro
The boomers in power would always ruin everything, this applies to Bandai too. Boomers have no passion and only care about milking the hell out of any franchise they could, while youngsters who are passionate are getting crapped on by the boomers.
Edit: when their Gundam Metaverse project flopped so hard, the boomers in power would always shift the blame on the youngsters (typical Japanese toxic work culture).
I'm convinced Witch From Mercury being rushed because all the fund is being diverted for this scrap.
Witch needed a total rewrite. The music was great but the whole school thing, Permit Score, and Gund was so stupid.
@@RezaQinI fail to see how it's stupider than any other Gundam technology.
That explains..
WFM had so much potential in developing an entire new universe, digging into more topics that were related to modern technology used in warfare, surely it would be a different taste than the old gundam series that focus on old school wars.
Who the fuck thought 24episodes were enough for an entirely new gundam series??
I'm so disappointed, wfm could be more than what it is now, attracting more new generation fans into the entire franchise
What I'm disappointed more is that Bandai thought that this mehverse is worth fucking up their core series of gundam anime
@@jaydenteoh3940 If you're looking for Gundam series that focus on the actual technology in the first place you're looking in the wrong franchise.
@@Peasham I don't rly get what you mean. You're saying that MSs are not suitable to be implemented irl? I'm just saying that WFM had the potential being a relatively new series to implement some of the concepts that were introduced in these few years. Say AI, drones (they did), some Internet stuff, etc. Past series focused on tanks, spaceships, and other pretty old school warfare elements. So I thought that WFM could show something different
The amount of sacrificed time, resources, and past, present, and future projects that could have given them profits and drew in new fans from sheer curiousity all for this metaverse that the vast majority have moved on from a societal standpoint is going to hurt them for years, maybe the next decade. I have zero interest in this project and I hope this hurts them so bad they are forced to actually make sound decisions again and produce more quality products again. The gundam gaming front should be booming right now, hell for the last 5 years really.
Kind of like square enix basically halving their operations over their failed NFT and marvel titles.
Bandai severly needs a wake up call from Gundam Fans East and West. From the constant meandering P-Bandai Releases, Popular Suits that need either a reprint or a rework entirely. To the constant games that are monetized to hell with severe server problems, balance issues, and performance issues. If the game doesnt do well, theyll just smother it and move onwards, and of course, the Asinine Metaverse that diminishes the franchise so much. The amazing stories, suits, symbols, and factions, all to push some awful corporate agenda. I respect all 3D Printer Bros who are 3D Printing the Leaked Metaverse kits, good, let Bandai know we're upset
The bros 3d printing stuff doesn't show Bandai we're upset lmao. It just shows that..... tbh I'm not too sure wtf goes on in the management over there and how they perceive all this. Idk if it's culture, naivety, greed or a combination of many other factors but the end result is that they are so out of touch with reading the god damn room or market in this case that they are burning cash.
@@albertwesker295pretty much most companies in a nutshell really
ISTG, if Metaverse had a role in rushing G-Witch. That was a reverse Gundam X situation where it had EVERYTHING going in its favor only to shoot itself in the foot and abruptly end. From potential Magnum Opus to Wasted Potential.
Bandai lost me when they replaced the excellent breaker series.. with nu gundam breaker... holy crap... and it has been all downhill since then. Not that every gundam game in the past was a banger.. but most of them had some endearing charm.. even target in sight wich was notoriously panned as a bad game is still leagues above nu gundam breaker.
Also the only reason why battlefront 2 still exists on PC is because the game is still making cash on consoles and they simply have to pay a couple of slave coders to translate it to PC...
About the ages of the old characters. It can be explained (excused) that they're using avatars based on their younger appearance, but they're actually older in real life.
However, someone I talked to elsewhere pointed out that Reiji was not supposed to have the Gundam he was using, because that's the same Gundam Sekai would later use and have it customized into something else. My memory in this is cloudy, so idk for sure.
Still is weird as hell they’d customize avatars to look like children and disguise their ages. Especially since they know they’ll be interacting a lot with actual children with how Gunpla is in the verse.
@thatnerdyouseeeverywhere7536 Yep. I don't think Bandai put a lot of thought into this. They just needed the Gunpla to sell and made a rushed advertisement in the form of a 3-episode anime.
Not necessarily cause having a spare model of extra parts for another or different kit is there. Build fighters try can be a good example of that cause while we do have the kamiki burning Gundam we also see the try burning Gundam in the club room, not to mention the spare parts of the build burning that yuu was given to by his sister. So something like that I don't see as such a stretch to believe. Not to mention registering different model kits so it's possible that there's different models saved to be used.
The possibility that Gundam Evolution was shut down for this is making me furious
Eitherway, I'm GLAD Gundam Evolution shut down. It was such an awful cash grab. Look, I understand the people who've been itching to play as their favourite suits, but that game was NOT it.
Externally, zero marketing, awful patch cycle, an unnecessary amount of microtransactions and progression walls, etc etc
Internally, suits felt weightless and light, gameplay feedback like hits and shooting felt so flimsy, not to mention it being ANOTHER hero based shooter etc etc
It's such a pathetic attempt at a cash grab...
@@acupoflatte8594 There was also no feeling of scale at all. It felt like any other garbage hero shooter but everyone has a gundam skin. Honestly, you would be better off playing Paladins and using the "totally not gundam" skins.
@@Scaevola9449 couldn't agree more. The most charming thing about gundam is that they are huge robots, each easily the size of a mountain. Yet in the game almost nothing gave a sense of it. Why the hell are the hallways so wide and huge, as if it was designed for MSs to use, which is kinda stupid, since that would be very impractical. Sure you could see some minor details like trees or whatsoever, but those are too minor to give us the actual feeling of piloting a huge robot. Like you said, its just another hero shooter with the gundam skins, not even the IP, cause i dont see anything specially done with the IP except it has gundam related emotes, which is underwhelming. oh they do have the titles or shit that nobody cares. They didn't care to introduce the story, supposingly the soul to the franchise...
I imagine that there were dissenting voices. But rich people assume they know best, and money means they're smart.
could have made a proper mecha gundam game not a gacha, not an mmo, not dynasty warrior, not an SD game, but a PROPER MECHA GAME 130M for all of these....
Instead of spending the 130 million on this, they should've given it to me!
fastest way to get wasted more than just 130 million dollars:
1. Leaked CAD
I know majority of people think its hilarious, but its really a greater problem of why 3D Artists can't have $hit doesn't just happen to Bandai doesn't matter how big or small you are there are people who will steal or even hack their way into getting your files and sharing them with every body and act like you deserved it. We can't even upload to Sketch Fab anymore because people just rip the files from the website with out paying.
its okay, we have armor core 6 now. Feed the fire🤤
We needed more gunpla where I live. Serious stock shortage of many releases in the last 4 years. Not enough stocks for everyone here.
Bandai: We spent our money elsewhere, so, uh...yeah...
Let me guess, literally anywhere but southeast Asia or the US
I have never seen a listing for the standard MG Gelgoog 2.0 anywhere in the past 4-5 years. They just can't be found. The only one I've been able to nab was the Anavel Gato custom that was, of course, P-Bandai.
@@OuroborosChoked luckily I’m a huge Char fan so I didn’t mind going for the red one, but I do really want a standard Gelgoog as well as a standard Zaku II, but they’re just gone
So, do you think Evolution could have had a future without this Metaverse project? Or do you think it was doomed regardless?
I think Evo was screwed regardless of this metaverse project's existence, but Bandai burning 130 million dollars sure didn't help it either. Evo's problems are/were its own. The shoddy servers in those first couple of seasons, the split regions that saw NA players migrating to JP region for ranked games, and the worst offender of them all, the monetization. I think once players realized they could not unlock all the mobile suits without opening their wallets, they quit the game and went elsewhere. Me personally, I didn't care about cosmetics since they all looked like shit, save for a select few like the Char Zaku II skin, that cost 4k green currency. Currency that could only be earned via getting duplicates from the game's loot boxes. I forget who did it first, 4chan or reddit, but there was a person who did the math and figured it was about $400 at least to get the 4k green currency during the limited time that the skin was available. The player count dropping off a cliff like a rock sealed the game's fate then and there. Each subsequent season saw a temporary rise in player count, only for them to leave again about a week later. Those players that came back when a new suit was released didn't bother coming back in the last three seasons and here we are, about 175 player count during the hours where the daily challenges refresh.
TLDR: Metaverse played no part in Gundam Evolution's shut down. That 130 million could have kept the Evolution going, but I doubt they would have put more money into the game even if they hadn't thrown that money in the metaverse project. Best you can do is hope that rumor of Gundam Evolution 2 is true and they announce it next year or whenever that steam post said it would. That or the efforts to get private servers up and running bare fruit.
Per se a gundam first person shooter is an excellent idea, but not the way Evo did. It should have had a solid single player campaign and zero gravity maps, with a lot of customization for the mobile suits.
They could have at least listened to the fans and fixed the bugs, or un-region locked the game.
That's proof they don't listen because even bamco said they made the metaverse for *The fans* like who even asked for that bs?
@@arx3516Imagine a single campaign at the style of Ace Combat
it was doomed regardless the game failed at being the one thing it set ti self to be a COMPETITIVE MECH GAME and failed on both parts
It seems to me Bandai has always been using Gundam Franchise as a way to sell its own merchandise, or at the very least adding micro transactions at every corner. I thought after so many failure they would eventually realise make a good game first, profit will follow. Looks like they still haven’t learnt anything.
Second Life + Gundam Breaker 3
Boom, you got your gundam metaverse. A digital catalog of all existing model kits (with some modifications for compatibility and such) and provide tools for users to create custom parts and animations. That is what a gundam metaverse should be, not a glorified chat room with store links that open in a browser
yes this exactly how do you fuck this up and for monetization you sell digital part kits plus for a lil extra the stl or what have you file so the player can print off their own real world parts for their irl gupla they show off to their friends to get them interested in joining in
Littraly what we expected.
Reality:
I'm dead convinced at this point that Bamco's heads either don't like money, or they're so senile that they've forgotten the value of it when it comes to Gundam.
Just think of what that money could have gone into. Evolution was killed before its dev team even had a chance to finish what they had planned, GBO2 is still going but they're obviously understaffed and there's a plethora of issues that still plague it, SRW games rarely come out (especially strange considering 100 managed to break into global release status and did fairly well.), all of these situations could have used that money. Hell there's so many other game types they could use the IP for, imagine a fighting game developed by Arc Sys for one.
Even with the concept of Metaverse, if the idea is to slowly bring Build Fighters' concept to life.... Why not start the Build Fighters dream with a series of Gunpla specifically made to be scanned into a game....maybe an EX-Versus esque multiplayer game. Not necessarily complex models, maybe more on the simple side to start...but specifically built to be mix matched. The technology to do that totally exists(remember Skylanders?), and it'd give them an excuse to produce a whole line of complimentary gunpla. It's not perfect but it'd be a start, and yes its a bit money grubbing but hey...it's at least an idea that makes sense. More sense than a glorified interactive website/Meta wannabe that barely works and could easily have just been a browser experience. (for a fraction of the cost.)
Even when it comes to Gunpla itself, the thing at the center of it all, we're still in a Gunpla shortage. There's so many designs that still have yet to get a kit release, or a more recent or advanced release. Some really well known Mobile Suits haven't had a new kit since the damn 90's. Something other than yet another version of Grandpa or the tie-in kits. Witch is over and yet there's still not an at least MG level kit of Aerial Rebuild or Calabarn. P-Bandai could be expanded into something more widespread. They could dip more into other properties like Armored Core. There's just so much.
It's insane, they spent this amount of money on a virtual social space that barely works and is essentially made to promote Gunpla, meanwhile that shortage is still a thing and that same amount of money could have been spent to just...make more or better Gunpla. There's so many exceedingly obvious things they could do with this IP, things that people would actually want and yet they make this vapid joke of a program no one asked for and with no feature anyone is interested in, and are still obsessed with chasing the NFT scheme when most of the planet has moved on already make it make sense!
bandai drip feeding me the shuffle alliance EXCLUSIVELY through P-bandai, while i can get the fucking windham and *dagger* off a store shelf with no problem is nothing short of infuriating.
They could have spent a fraction of that money and used it to give G-witch more episodes, and probably have a bunch left over to fund several more anime afterwards.
I could tell that the OVA tie-in was going to be shit about five minutes into the first episode too
It’s so annoying considering there are much better things for Gundam to work on. Localizing super robot wars, making Gundam Maxiboost next iteration or bigger in the west, making the next Gundam breaker that isn’t anything like new breaker. Like seriously, those are all bound to be much more profitable and less risky. This whole meta verse business has screwed so many franchises so I can’t for the life of me understand how they thought this was a good idea.
when game companies realized that NFT and Metaverse mostly sink black hole for money for neither the gamers or themselves.....
only thing got me watch the anime bc Chisato's VA (LycoReco) in it lol
Bandai really good at making something that no one asked for😂
Well, they did public the souls series, the new armored core 6, something we DID ask for
@@Phantom9587 FromSoftware made them, not Bandai.
Lol I'm going back to dynasty warriors Gundam and Armored core.
Sounds like the Facebook 'Metaverse' idea in a nutshell.
gundam breaker died because of this
The metaverse anime also completely disregarded the existence of GBO. It's never explained what happened to GBO and why everyone's playing Gundam Metaverse instead. The original gundam battles were even referenced in the first GBD series (as in before ReArise) so there's no excuse for that.
Apparently the writing and directing for it was done by the same one who did the first season of build divers. Which explains why its pretty bad.
2:33 Bandai Namco already has Bandai Namco Games. The fact that other Bamco games like their own actual MMO, Blue Protocol and other Bamco games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse 1 and 2 have better character customization is frankly a truly embarrassing look.
We need a new Sd Gundam Capsule Fighter Online game.
Good lord why didnt Bandai just use that money on a Gundam ArcSys fighting game!?
An actual single player Gundam Game sold internationally or another season of G-Witch would have been a far more sound investment.
Seriously, it almost feels like G-Witch was cut short in favor of this crap.
If G-Witch was this kind of success even with its rushed second cour, imagine how big of a hit it had been had it been allowed to fully flesh everything out as was clearly originally intended.
@@matteste Either this or the Seed movie is where the money went.
With the abundance of distinct designs in season 2 and the rushing through beats in season 2's back half, there was room for at least another season to let things breathe more. Might have gotten more non P-Bandai kits out of it to boot. Like, I enjoyed almost every MS design in the show, but unless it's a gundam or a big 3 design, we barely saw them in action.
10:14 You forgot about MSGO, which was THE Gundam MMO IMO. It got shutdown in April of 2022. It's a shame, after the Taiwan server shuttered the Japanese server was the last hope for the game. It had a long run but it could've been longer.
Here I am just finding out it existed
the game concept is good, but the gameplay is really bad
@@owenlee5718 The gameplay needs like Gunevo style of Gunplay and it would been awesome tbh
They had an actual MMO, UCGO Universal Century Gundam Online (almost 20 years ago, was BAD, way worse than any other 20 year old MMO)
@@savagemaelstrom9645 I'm aware, I've dabbled in the private server for it. There's a reason the original game's lifespan wasn't even 2 years.
At least you could pilot tanks and stuff though.
Good ol Bandai so out of touch with their IP fans, they are lucky with the new Digimon card game but I bet they won't make a digital game out of it, like Master Duel, because that's what fans want and they hate doing what fans want.
i wish they wouldve just spent $130,000,000 on making the anime better/ longer
Bandai really need to make a proper Gundam game,.just ask Fromsoftware to make it if they didnt have the ability to do so
they already ask fromsoft to do
the gundam unicorn on ps3 that only cover first 3 ep of OVA and not release ep4-7 content
Bandai Namco Online inc did a very good design on Gunevo, except their programmer is trash
They could have and probably should have just made this on VRChat.
As someone with siblings who fought for a while, I can confirm the OVA’s portrayal of sibling rivalry was incredibly realistic.
Gundam breaker 3 break edition was the closest to the metavers as they get by a landslide
I never expected people to look at the failure that was playstation home and go “yeah, lets do that again.”
if they want to bounce back with gaming, i think the first step would be porting gundam breaker 3 to pc, i'm pretty sure by just doing that would help them tremendously
That and another gundam breaker game that’s an amalgam of the first three gundam games best qualities while ignoring new gundam breaker.
i don't know what kind of weed did they smoke green lit the fucking new gundam breaker
They should have made GPO1 MG 2.0 instead!
Or gp02 RG
Its good thing,they didn't make a MMORGP, our personal information would have hacked
I've spent an embarrassing amount of money on gunpla in anticipation for the VR gunpla scan. I just hope it's first person
Gbo3 is what I'm waiting for
3:28 You mean aside from virtual spaces like the hub areas of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games, the hub area of Jump Force (which seems to have been based on the Xenoverse games) and just Blue Protocol in general?
yo, a Build fighters retrospective would be great!!
this won't change because people are afraid to speak up against the fat soulless Japanese CEO because you can sue people for basically saying bad shit about you in Japan. Even if it's true defamation of character is considered something you can use over.
With that $130M we could have gotten more MG kits and 2.0s of kits that NEED a 2.0.
They need to team up with DICE and give us Gundam Battlefield or another operation Troy
The only "Metaverse" that works right now is the one in Persona 5, I'm afraid.
Bandai could get fu*ked for all I care.
That is what they get for putting my favorite MSs into PB.
Ac6 was a reminder that you shouldn’t compromise or accept a half baked game just to get your mecha fix,
sadly everything the Gundam ip has been doing lately just tells me they’ll keep crapping out half baked overly monetized and unpolished trash until they fully crash and burn or just outright say “welp, we tried I guess there’s no money to be made from making games!”
We can only hope between everything they do failing spectacularly and AC6 being widely praised they’ll pull it together and realize making good games first and foremost is a good idea.
lol, Gundam could use more and better gundam model kits... especially more RG, MG and better ver 3.0 of old kits than wasted games.
GBO2 ain’t gonna die. I’ve been playing that consistently for a long time and it looks like the support for it has only grown. I just hope they make a 3rd game or something.
On PlayStation player count hovers 300-500 on average and 1,000 when events pop up
*on pc
@@heroicdairy and? the game has always done well on playstation, the fact that it's survived for 5 years is proof, specially when you look at how all these other games went
@@isaiasvazquez5792 I'm guessing you didn't see my correction, I'm saying the PC version is absolutely on deaths door.
@@heroicdairy Do allot of people play the PC GBO2?
>implying build divers didnt already ruin the concept by turning gunpla battle into a VR game
>ignoring that build fighters never properly ended anyway despite there being multiple ovas that could have finally covered sei and sekai's meeting on the world stage
there's seriously been like 4 different ovas since try ended and none of them cover world tournament. the last one even rolls back the clock to build fighters S1 time line to basically make a big toy commercial and retroactively make the build burning gundam lame by giving it a rifle and shield.
i dont think sekai and sei even look at each other in the metaverse ova, oh but they make DAMN sure meijin and sei have their big rematch...for a second time.
Bandai needs to just return to making kits and anime. That is good enough that I have this plastic addiction and a big fucking backlog of kits, btw they need to reprint a fuckton of kits.
they get what they deserve, i want this build series to end years ago, i want more original series not this cashgrab , i mean witch of mercury might benefit of longer season but nope gotta keep this build crapper going forever.
11:05 I wonder if that report even includes international sales, FromSoft publishes Elden Ring themselves in Japan.
Bandai should have just stayed focusing on being a top tier plastic crack supplier.
Bandai should do what James Cameron did for his Avatar film, develop the technology needed until it is doable, I don't believe that Bandai don't have the money to do that.
But instead they throw money just because they are too ambitious and greedy for they own good and had to shut off/ cut spending to save money.
Mecha games are better left to literally anyone else other than Bandi... now that I think of it, Bandi is only 1 letter off from Bandit. I guess that's one way to rat yourself out.
The problem with Bandai is that they are not making games, they are making consumer products, as long as they can milk money from the game, they are happy with it. I guess there are sufficient evidence that prove my point, like EVO, GBO mobile games and gundam breaker. They tried so hard to minimize their effort to create shit games and expected people to like it.
I really like Gundam franchise but to this is point I really think Bandai management is beyond redemption.
Imagine if that money had gone to Gundam Evolution. T_T
To be fair Zeon did way better doing on experimental stuff they just don't know how to make Gundarium alloy than Bandai doing NFTS.
0:51 I wouldn't say they got the shop working, it literally just redirects you to a section on p-bandai lmao
I so disappointed. I so hard like Evo, so hard dont like GB2 and metaverse shit... they just killing normal game for nothing... it hurt... thank you Evo, good luck out there. And thank you autor, your video - hard and shit true. TT_TT
I will miss Evo very much
The bootleg and 3rd party companies are probably having fun with the leaked CAD files
They could have just have another continuation of the build fighters series instead of a metaverse
They should've made gundam breaker playable and cross platform.
Im guessing their next gundam breaker will be named gundam build breaker and probably go like gundam breaker gunpla warfare type of gacha for parts and skills while also obtaining f2p parts.
Lots of ideas i give them that but they're slowly lacking the foundation to continue it on the long run.
GBGW and Gundam Evolution died and so is the Gundam IBO mobile game (but hey urdr hunt movie is in progress which is nc).
I hope Gundam Metaverse got their expected goal to further make their metaverse much more Gundam build like
we could have gotten some decent games out of that budget or another gunpla factory
Do an ‘invincible rummy’ challenge in armored core 6 pls
They could have just made Gihren's Greed 6 with less than a tenth of the cost, release it globally and earn a shit ton of money...but!
I just want another Dynasty Warriors Gundam at this point
Coulda used that money to make an extreme vs game for steam but oh well
They killed one of their best game franchises like Gundam Breaker
Have never heard of this metaverse until now. Oh wow, what a waste of money...
The only Gundam game I remember that made me like it is Shin Gundam Musou. Although it lacks the crossover story between each series, at least it was enjoyable enough. Couldn't get myself to play SD Gundam CrossRay because the gameplay was so boring.
Gundam breaker 3 (an actual good gundam game with customisation) hasn't been ported to PC for this...
"Bandai only focuses on quantity not quality" sounds like an earth federation thing
As an ammeter game developer, one of my dreams is to some day make a Gundam game. It's probably never going to happen, but even if I get the chance, this kind of thing makes me think I should not take it. I can just design my own mechs if I need to.