I dont want to talk like Yii is dying lol, but it bums me out that he's no longer gonna make AK videos. His personality was just easily watchable, but it was definitely apparent that he was getting bored and burned out. I hope he considers dabbling in it like every 2-3 months, but i'd watch him regardless. Curious to see what he's excited to make. :)
I think, it's more of a career thingy on top of some burnout. Let's be honest, AK EN community is not as far-reaching as CN community. This limit, is limiting Yii in many ways. I just pray hin doing well, he is a great content creator.
@QuickQuips I believe he also was forcing himself to do AK videos after his last break, they felt, less passionate, unwanted even. And when he did what he truly wanted it felt like Yii was back once more.
@@DisIngRaM I think it's about wasted potential too, he has the voice, the humor, and idea to make anything watchable, sticking to Arknights the game that will inevitably be less and less popular in the future is probably not a good thing. Atleast for me I thought since I first watch him like, I wanted to watch other kind of contents from him too.
His first long form video actually surprised me, he seemlessly moved his humor and analysis to a VERY different game. Like, he absolutely has the potential to be the next SkillUp or YongYea. I'm 100% sticking around to see where he's going.
I am genuinely so sad the amiyafumo cinematic universe will never get the conclusion it deserved. But he seemed SO much more passionate about the first game he reviewed... honestly it's a joy to see his content when he's not jokingly but clearly struggling with mental health aspects. Depressed Yii Arknights Videos are not worth the toll on his mental health.
But, why should a game even cater to content creators? These people aren’t even developing mods or something for the game. It’s just making money by sharing strategies. There was a time when people just shared and discussed these things for free without expecting any compensation. The idea that one should be able to make money off of it is just outright nonsensical when you think about it. It’s lame.
@@eufrosniad994 more successful content creators = more attention to game = more potential players = more potential players that spend money = more profit
@@DylansLappalterCopium You are correct that this is the current model companies tend to follow. Content creators are essentially a free source of advertising. However, this model is not necessary and I would even say that it is unhealthy. If a company wants to promote their game, let them spend money on advertising and promotional events. Players or consumers shouldn’t also be in the business of providing advertising for games anyway. Just enjoy it and share interesting stuff with the community for the sake of just sharing and not monetizing. Play what you enjoy for the enjoyment. Not to make money etc.
@@eufrosniad994 But a lots of content creators like Yii don't really make any money off of videos, At most it will be a few cents for his average view count. Sadly for a mobile game, your average arknights ads not gonna sway anybody. Content creator are the most straightforward way to get any eye to notices it, strategy guide, fan art, fan animation, etc.
@@eufrosniad994look for me personally I'm one of those people making content and stuff just to share it. Itd be great if I could make money from it but I'm not there yet nor do I expect to with how inconsistent I am. There's nothing wrong with adding things in that make it easier for people to make content of your game whether its for money or not.
The revelation about Endfield Angelina really hit him hard. 😢 Jokes aside, I’m gonna miss his small segments before he discusses AK and the quips he makes. It was really hilarious and enjoyable. Best of luck to him and may he never encountered another blue woman in the future.
@@3takoyakis Basically since EF takes place in the far distant future, at one point, OG Angelina decided to participate in something called the Heterokaryon Project, where the project would have permission to clone her and that clone would continue on her legacy in the future. She wrote and left a letter to her would-be clone and told the clone everything about about herself, the OG Angelina and her accomplishments. This basically gave the clone motivation and wants to be just as good as her “senior” (OG Angelina), while wanting to carve a story of her own that she can be proud of.
Arknights youtubers will slowly transition to Arknights Endfield when it releases, tower defense is not a game for everyone who likes stylish hack and slash open world play style, it's a game that fries people's brain for using brain if the stages are hard enough.
As much as i love the direction Endfiled is taking right now, i don't think people will find the base building aspect of the game easier than our little tower defense game. It will fry brains too.
It's unfortunate to see him go, but I'll definitely still watch his new videos. I really hope he takes off and finds the same success or even greater success in his new content.
I've only been playing since last January, but I've enjoyed Yii's videos and I'm sad to see him go. That being said...I'd be lying if I said that I didn't see it coming. His heart didn't seem to be in the last few AK videos he's done, and honestly, I'm glad that he decided to transition to what he really wants to do rather than force himself to do AK content and for it to be mediocre. I've seen it happen before, and it's always better to go out with a bang than with a whimper.
"no matter how much u want to branch out to move on a new page, we still gonna bother you about arknights and make it like the only thing good in your channel is arknight" that what you trying to say?
I agree. It's really sad. I love this game and I personally think i'll be playing it for at least the next 5 years or so. It's easy to stick with and I love the challenge whenever it shows itself. I do understand that content creation really burns you out sometimes though.
His content was something I genuinely looked forward to watching. It's quite sad that we lost another good man, but he'll always and forever will be the Yii Arknights I'll support to the end. Godspeed to you, Blue man that kissed Zafang o7
Talking about content creator, i really recomend you guys to watch Roriipupper, he was making a goddamn good quality of Arknight meme. He was have so much potential but not much attention.
Holy shit. I just saw this while going through the comments reading on people's thoughts on the whole subject matter. TYSM. Rarely do I see people vouch for me on other people's comment section. Thank you for the support!
I still think Arknights is one of the best tower defense game that I ever played. No other TD game has a slew of unique mechanics and play style compared to Arknights
I agree with everything you mentioned in this video. Talking with you over discord really helped me realized that I wasn't alone in my thinking as an Arknights creator. It's been rough being torn between supporting a game you love and trying to grow as a creator. The last 6-8 months I've been struggling with the idea of jumping ship and expanding the channel to other content. With Endfield being shown and looking better it feels more appealing to stay but at the same time you have no idea when it'll come and if it'll even do well a year later. Gacha is a hard market to brand as a creator and build something on. I've told my community many times that I wish I could just be an AK only creator but at this time it's not worth the amount of effort as the growth ceiling is so small. At this point random videos get more subscribers than most of my Arknights content. I'm thankful to have the type of support I've gotten from Arknights but my channel hasn't grown in months. I'd like to also talk about the lack of support as a creator from Yostar and Arknights events. There have been times when events would happen, and only certain people could restream or get support. It was frustrating as a full-time AK creator to get ignored when trying to do community live streams around the concerts for example and have to sit on the sidelines watching other creators have fun with their communities because they were given permission, and you weren't. Not a jab at the other creators as those events SHOULD be live streamable to the community but it was the pick and choose mentality from Yostar that was annoying. It never really feels like Yostar is working with us, rather they just let us "hang around". Hoyoverse is like a 180 from this. I don't even make Hoyoverse related content but have always been reached out to about upcoming events and betas around their games. I've never been sponsored but the mere fact that they reached out to see if I was interested in their games was way more than I've gotten from Yostar in the whole 1.5 years I covered Arknights. I know Yii will do great things in the future and I'm glad they we're able to find the courage to go down a path that isn't as comfortable for them. I feel this was something Yii HAD to do in order to grow. The level of time and effort put into their videos was almost wasted in this space and could easily grow them much faster in a broader niche.
i really hope that HG/Yostar do more on advertising the game in EN. look at JP, they got 10 pulls everytime the game got to top downloaded, and they did it not just once but consistently. being AK content creator in EN is super hard, and it only get harder
HG focus on China and yostar focus in Japan. At least yostar try to do it for en sometimes while most gacha Dev doesn't care to advertising their games outside Japan like hoyoverse
@@fenjix5982nah bro, I'm not going to defend hoyoverse, but trust me, in terms of community coverage, hoyoverse is a lot better than yostar. Just see how ZZZ has a lot of advertising and compare it to Enfield, which don't have any news at all until alpha test
@@fenjix5982 I am not sure what exactly you mean, but hoyoverse actually bombardes everyone with their ads. I guess they didn't translate genshin and hsr to so many languages for nothing
I think the easiest comparison I can make is when Jerma and RTGame transitioned out of making just TF2 videos. Nowadays pretty much everyone I talk to has heard of or about them. Wishing Yii the best for the future.
This is pretty much a gacha-wide phenomenon. Its just some creators hide it better than others I feel. But Im glad Yii expanded his horizons because gacha can only provide so much for content creators. Also a lot of creators would feel trapped in continue making content for the same gacha for years on despite burn out because they want to maintain their fanbase or keep them happy which adds onto further pressures. So yuh hope the best for Yii for his future endeavors. AND VIFER TOO Vifer variety ???!
I think, it's more of a career thingy. Let's be honest, AK EN community is not as far-reaching as CN community. This limit, is limiting Yii in many ways. I just pray hin doing well, he is a great content creator.
This was deep for an arknights video, wasnt expecting to hear all of this but I do know what your talking about. I will say that Yostar is not doing a good job getting content creators to join in, which is indeed a shame. Rip to Yii but hope he enjoys what he does next, and Vifer you be a solid one with this video and lets see everyone in Endfield.
I'm not surprised he quit, it's a common phenomenal that occurred in any games, even for big games, let alone a gacha game, it's part of the cycle. How fast the process is depends on the game and the person whether game is dying or person is busy irl or burnout or both. In current state of Arknights the game is far from dying revenue wise. I'm more of a sad we lost incredible content creator. It's like Oripathy, to slow the process we gotta support these content creator and avoid drama within the community.
I honestly believe another factor in that plays in Arknights popularity is that it isn't a "main game" kind of game. Its a side game, that game that you play a 30mins to an hour+ then move on to your main game, you enjoy it when theres events, you enjoy the gacha since the game is quite generous enough, you enjoy the characters, the AMAZING fucking music, and you enjoy your waifu/husbando. No content creator out there that would dedicate their entire time to focus on a side game simple as, for our community and our amazing dedicated content creators, its the absolute love for the game hence they dedicate their time for us, amazing Arknights content creators like Kyo, Frostbyte, kukki, cesith, eckogen, yii, Oyuki etc. (but a lot of them branch out since the content you can make for Arknights is really limited like I stated earlier since its a side game.) Unlike other games where you can milk the fuck out of it or bait the hell of the game for content I honestly believe Arknights is really limited.
That’s exactly how I play it. I haven’t even touched IS2 yet, I just don’t want to invest the extra time right now. I may lose out on some ressources but that’s fine.
I'm not really a gacha gamer, Arknights is the only gacha game I play, but I betcha that part of what's keeping Arknights from growing and maintaining their playerbase are the long ass cutscenes and walls of dialogue each and every time you start and finish a stage, whether in the campaign or the limited events. It's so tiresome it turns off new would be players, and even burns out old time players. Arknights has a good story, they just need to make it more accessible to casuals then the game would grow more.
No gacha games are main games. Genshin content creators play abyss over and over. It's no more than a 10 minute a day game. It isn't at all because it's not a main game. It's because it isn't easy enough. Genshin is popular af because it's a baby game. The simple fact is there is just way less people playing this game than other popular games. Games like Genshin are popular with little kids. Little kids spend all day watching yt and tiktok vids. Content creators that want to get big will make vids about games that people talk about a lot more than they play. Just the sad truth.
This has to happen if Yii wanted to grow as a content creator. Let's be honest, Arknights is really dry in content most of the time. What is there to cover? What is there to present? Lore? Big brained strats? Analysis? Arknights is a good game but it is not enough to grow as a content creator. Yii leaving is a good choice for him to improve and explore more of his talents.
I think it is more accurate to say that it is a good game to play, but not a good game to make content of, like most other gatcha games except Genshin and HSR. Genshin and HSR are exception purely due to the sheer number of its players and popularity.
@@devilkazumi578 People literally watching some dude play abyss mutiple times to Test run teams Meta teams, weird teams, niche teams In genshin. Decent viewer numbers and decent Archives views on yt. So no. Genshin literally has content. Personality wise it also helps some people just like watching people play the main story. Sadly arknights still hasnt chosen to put voicelines on the story. Instead they choose to keep making more characters wasting more opportunity to make the story better.
@@devilkazumi578 bruh I literally just fcking said People watch them. How the fact you go "thats boring" but the proof is right there that genshin streamers have an actual audience live watchin them do the story. Jesus read. Also don't act as if Arknights way of story telling isnt so outdated... so you telling me people want to watch a Streamer with the worst reading voice read a light novel? Lol Also comeon you act as if, arknights streamers literal only content is them Making shit up by Doing different teams and meta shit too. The fuck are you saying? If a Genshin streamer testing 10+ abyss teams then a Arknights streamer testing 10+ operator comps and run a stage like 20 times just to get that High rank score on contigency is also boring af. Back to Arknights -Lightnovel type story telling, repeating audio Effects for story telling "Slash vfx "sword steel clanking vfx" for every fight scene in Arknights lol. And also. Arknights got a lot of complainers to, most of arknights story is to fcking convuluted, long, so Vague and tiring to read. I read till chapter 8 it was awesome. Any past that just really got Lame. Especially the event ones. Having need to Read that shit on the event for 3 hours while it being timelimited. Yeah no way you'll force me to read a voiceless event that I need to read for 3 hours. I rather play genshin events with voicelines and enjoy that. Skip button is an only complain about non readers. Thats it. But its not a reason for "story to much". If we argue Arknights is like the bible to read for every event story. And genshin is a normal Manga with one new chapter. Easy to intake and enjoy.
5:15 Eha did mention that when he tried to have a consistent upload schedule, he rushed quite a few vid. So ye he's not going to be consistent anytime soon
I like Yii as content creators rather than AK player but him quiting AK is a big lose in AK community. This is sad but understandable. I miss 1 year ago when my yt recommendation full with AK .EXE meme, lore, guide etc now only few left.
Nowadays I feel like guides are mostly useless, AK genuinely doesn't need more than 2-3 content creators, focusing on guides. And majority of viewers would just check Kyostin video anyways. There is definitely not enough meme creators or in general people who can produce content outside the game. Like idk, do a speedpaint vid of you drawing an AK character? Or AI voice over for meme situations between characters. I guess it is too much effort and if your first vid flops you'll be discouraged from trying this type of content again. Also I do think there should be more lore focused content creators (I rarely read an event nowadays cause I am too busy irl for Arknights writing lol). Maybe there are some but I just know one.
Alright, I'm tired of this shit Dear any AK content creator: if you wanna cover games other than AK, just do it. No one prohibits you from doing whataver you want on your own channel. Why bother saying goodbye or worse, asking your viewers to unsub just because you stop covering AK. Like what the hell is that attitude? AK community is not a bunch of heartless savages that only care about content. I don't really watched Yii, but those captions seem like the highlight of his relationship to his viewers, I hope I'm wrong.
@@spiiralwya I told you I don't watch him and unaware of his personality and such. But as a non-Yii-viewer, watching a creator asking his audience to go unsub after years of being together...is kinda inappreciative and self centered. Maybe he just being a bit dramatic, or that's just the part of his goofy ahh relationship with his audience, as someone said above.
@@prettysureidateyourmom5104 that's fair. It could be part of inside joke between him and his audience as well, like this is the Yii that his viewers know would do.
From his videos and discord interactions, I can kinda surmise he's a very "give no two shits and be insanely frank with 0 PR moves". Instead of reading it in a melancholy tone, read it as just a dude passing through. Casual, fast and to the point.
Marketing wise, Yostar is doing a bad job at advertising Arknights the ads will be the end of me and let's not forget the fact they reused the same Dossoles animation for 2 ads
Arknights in its current state I think is fine and perfectly healthy, its just the classic issue of "We've been playing for four years and getting burnt out", not to mention its still a 2d mobile game and for as fun as Arknights is to play and watch challenge runs of it doesn't bring in the views as something like a Hoyoverse game does or whatever newly released triple A game just came out. I do think there's some great content creators in the AK scene right now, but those content creators are mainly fueled by passion for the game and passion can only take you so far before it begins to fail you. So I fully understand and support Yii's decision to go into more general content creation, and I really do wish him the best.
i think it is inevitable fate of live service game. There will always be newer and shinier games, and thus less time to focus on game you once love, people also come and go and the status quo is quickly changed
This was a really interesting video as a lot of the things you talked about are questions I have been asking for a while and its good to hear other AK content creators opinions on the game and its growth. Content creation for any gacha game can be quite limited but I think with AK due to the chapter sizes and no VA, that takes away a huge portion of the content that could be made which is people watching cc react/play the story as they may not want to read over an 70k written story twice. I think this is one of the issues with AK as all the other games mentioned do have that voice acting aspect that does make them more accessible and the writing is a lot shorter so its easier to stream/make videos on. I think its an issue that can be fixed with endfield but that raises another question as to whether or not endfield will just BECOME the only AK game and arknights could suffer a decrease in their player base but also if more AK creators will just leave to play AK endfield. I think another benefit endfield will have is that they can focus a portion of marketing around specific characters and build hype up in livestreams and get big names for the VA work (commonly see in genshin/hsr) It would be nice if hypergryph could do more to work with content creators, i think not just sponsoring big streamers to play the game but working with arknights content creators established in the community would be a great thing too. I dont really know what else could be done to expand this game further and make the content more successful but I think the community aspect of it is the key as in my experience, cc making content linked with the community or with future content does tend to be more successful. Or we call just quit for HSR 😂 ill have to check out your reverse 1999 videos tho - loving that game so far!
I kinda feel like there isn’t enough content creator that talks about the story/lore of the game. When I look on TH-cam, I almost only see guides, operator showcases, and some nicheknight stuff. The story of arknights is amazing, especially the lone trail story we have right now. But I don’t see enough people talk about it on TH-cam, that is just unfortunate. I really wish there are people who does content creations around the lore of arknights, like VaatiVidya who does contents around the dark souls, elden ring, and bloodborne series. Think about it, for the souls games, the community always says “Vaati help!” When they want to know the lore of the game, for arknights, there is kyostinV when people need help for clearing certain stages, but there isn’t someone like that for the lore of arknights. Having more content creators covering the story/lore of the game is definitely going to attract more people to the game too. But unfortunately I feel like this part of our community is just lacking.
@@hideandslide4586 true, I just feel like these lore content creators don’t get enough attention. The community need to be exposed to the story more, then people would start to see the connections.
Arknights is my favorite gacha game and I love it to bits. I agree that yostar needs to do something, hell maybe even let gryph frontier do something instead. Im confident HG or GF could figure something out. But one day maybe we can get something like that in the future. I wish i had time to turn my streams into full content with edits but i have a full time job and a part time job as well. (Not to mention a lot of other things) but i dont have the time or motivation (adhd kicking me there. (Looking for medication for that)) to learn how to edit and take that time to edit as well. If i didnt need to work as much maybe it could change. Im just unsure as of what to do sonetimes.
"Here is Yii" _operator defeated sound effect_ Yii is a former AK Ytuber of the Specialists class. Why specialist you ask ? Yii can move while not having legs. If that aint special then I dont know what is. Yii`s first talent is "Kyaaa~" Yii`s second talent is "AmiyaPog"
yii's videos really shows how he sounds bored at Arknights, but his messages are very short & clear, its interesting.. also, normal stages of Arknights are very boring nowadays, with how some Operators are too powerful/POWER in clearing them.. so new modes (IS/SSS/RA/PO etc.) really good, the developer knows their players well, that it hits the "wall", and introduces new stuffs.. so far, Arknights still going strong, and my main game (others games comes seconds or so) ADD : Not going to play Endfields, I play Arknights because of how simple it is.. and that game is far from that, its like Genshin Impact/Honkai Impact, quite heavy to play (I don't want to burden my machine)
I thought it was a semi joke tweet lol. Anyway, gonna watch him no matter what lol. But i would like arknights vids here and there from Yii Arknights, the creator of Amiya pog
My guess, many arknights content creator will be back when endfield drops, so taking break on arknights universe right now is maybe better than getting burnt out when endfield starts. Then more people will start trying arknights to understand the lore behind the game.
if you havent done anything bad, I dont need to unsub from you. tho i probably not gonna watch yii's new contents, but unsubbing is not necessary for me
tbh, when he posted the hour long video of the streamer game, I was excited. it's pretty hard to stick to one game, much less psyche yourself up and muster enough energy to make videos about it on a consistent basis. i hope he doesn't drop the game altogether, but it's always cool to branch out and do as you like. i know I for one am staying subbed. I hope he keeps up the funny skits though.
Well at least he’ll still be making videos. I thought he died for a second. Take it from a guy who mainly plays Girls Frontline, you guys have it pretty good when it comes to content creators. Don’t take it for granted.
You mentioned all the big games out there but only Arknights truly made me stay. Idk, I got bored on other gacha like GI or HSR. Even the R99 which was introduced by you is boring me. AK can make me login daily without cc videos or fyps reminding me it exists.
The game is awesome but i miss some things so i started trying to make a modding frameworknfor the game so we can add our own content but i hit a few roadblocks, the devs are reworking a lot of the internals of the game so there may be interesting things in the future for me it meant to almost start from scratch once again which is always sad and almost made me quit my project as well... As you said lack of time sucks, having "a life" makes you edge a blade where you try to keep with your proyects and work and it can become unhealthy. I hope he does well, maybe expanding the borders of what he does makes him able to start living from it instead of trying to do magic to balance everything out. With a bit of time maybe he does some arknights videos once and again (or maybe anything else that we can enjoy) Sorry for the wall of text and if anyone wants to know about the modding project, feel free to write me a message anywhere. Have a gread day you all
They just needed to add sweep function earlier. Its the only reason why i stop playing it and only return when there is limited banner with free wishes. Waiting 4.5 years for this basic function is crazy. Should have happened like 2 years ago.
His newest video is definitely a treat to watch, and good for him for transitioning into something he likes to make videos more of. Arknights is a difficult media for content creators to cover, and i think it limits yii, so it's a good decision that he switched to more general contents/video essays. Im still gonna miss him making arknights videos tho. Who knows, im pretty sure he still plays arknights, but stopped making videos about it instead as it is getting stale as of late. We really need something to spice up the gameplay, like another gamemode, and i heard that RA is coming back on the cn side
Amazing analysis/comentary into this situation. I think what makes someone be that engaged in making videos, etc is love, but one sooner or later we will start to get a bit bored of it, and thats normal, it s fine. But I think one day Yii might look it back and see all the fun and love he felt and drop onother AK video just bc I think he was moved by this love of the game/comunity at the start (this is he really don't have something that really had upset him, which I really doubt)
I think the problem with arknights is that its hard to make exciting content on it. I think the game is good, but just very hard to make content on other then sharing youre clears. I do love Arknights, but I will admit that the only content I watched consistently is Yii, and thats mainly for his personality. Sadly Arknights is just difficult to make content about.
All due respect I never heard of this guy I only watch Box2, Kukkikaze, Dr Volke, KyostinV and Vifer. But RIP regardless. I understand how badly the gacha can make you feel and how the content is now just "Is X operator good?"
It's just a normal for games... One day you heard about Elden Ring and now it suddenly become a legend... One day you heard about HSR and suddenly it become nothing... One day you heard about warcraft III and now nobody talks about it... Gacha especially doesn't leave that much of an impact towards players (aside for appreciations) and the tendency of a gacha games to be repetitive, it was going to die sooner or later... Let us just enjoy what we have rn and worry about the future when the time comes... Goodluck Yii on your new journey,.. hopefully we can see more funny explanation videos about anime next
my opinion for arknight is dying, is that you don't see alot of communities channel or dedicated Shitposting arknight or anything meme related and i can say this because I watch alot of animation arknight and meme for 3 to 4 years and saved all of it on my private playlist. i don't ever know what happened like most of the channel either deleted or private their video. all of it are gone and i don't even know what happened. Vifer can you give me context or anyone here knows what happened to those videos i can still see them in Bilibili website (i don't used it tho) but most of them are still there.
Since you said you can still see them in Bilibili then I assume what you saw was content that was stolen from CN. There's been a lot of channel that used to steal and repost CN contents here on YT and more than often they got reported and ended up being deleted.
You are correct, for some reason Global AK content creators feel like meme/shitpost kind of videos are either won't bring an audience or it is too much effort.
"Don't see dedicated Arknights shitposting channel or meme related." Oh my God, how have you not seen Roriipupper yet? That guy consistently makes hight tier arknights shitposts but for some reason I don't see that guy being talked a lot. His videos deserves more views than what they have. I don't see any channel Arknights channel that does stuff on the same level as him.
The crux of the issue imo is simply that a strategy tower defense game like AK isn't all that entertaining to watch for most people, Endfield might be alot better for content creation I'm hoping.
1) yostar needs to invest in growing the community/playerbase I started playing AK because I had seen some art of characters in the past, and then a few months ago I started getting YT ads for the game and I think I recognized a character or something. The marketing animations for AK are so fucking gorgeous and not just entirely focused on aggressive fanservice so they caught my interest and I had to check it out. If Yostar would put more effort into getting Arknights' name out there then I think they could really boost interest in the game because the marketing that they DO make is S tier stuff. I had no interest at all in gacha games before AK, but the ads were just that good that they hooked me 2) yostar needs to invest in strengthening the community that already exists Creator led community events like Vifer's PvP tournaments are amazing, but if yostar established an official PvP league or something (and invite Vifer to be the commentator because he's great at it) then I think they could really tighten up the community. The first time I saw one of Vifer's PvP videos, I was actually blown away by how compelling and engaging it was. For one thing, I did not think AK could be adapted to a PvP format and was pretty pessimistic going into that first video, but its surprisingly simple and elegant. And beyond that, it actually lends itself amazingly well to tense, fast paced competition despite opponents not directly interacting at all I'm falling asleep at the keyboard here, but I think yall can figure out where I'm going with this
this is sad, hearing you talk like that... i also did not expect yii to just go like that, he's one of many reason i'm playing this game. Idk man, i feel like i just lost something. Arknight content creator is nice and fun to wacth, and it's never gonna be the same again
Maybe what happening was a lot of people started to do things like work which previously halted for years, some people bring back to busy life of being a student or being an Employee to a busy big company or even fastfood chains that had no more time to watch TH-cam or Twitch. This is not only happening in Arknights but also to other Channels. I believe that the lockdown because of pandemic made a lot of content creator and a lot of player to gacha games (since they are free to play) but now everything are much busier than before so yeah it make sense the sudden drop of viewers and players as time goes by.
@@NeoSpira he is too busy with irl job and sometimes come back if there is interesting stuff happening. Reminding me when dreamy decide to comeback temporarily when RA mode introduce in AK cn.
Yii probably got shocked that Angelina in Endfield is not the same Angelina in Arknights Still, I will still consume Yii content despite his transition. I'll say that his first video for the transition is really good, I advise other peeps to go watch it.
This might be an unpopular take, but this idea of a game needing to be pro-content creation is somewhat odd. Content creators of this type essentially leach to make money off of a game they did not develop. It’s one thing to share strategies for free and simple reputation among the community like it happened even back in the day. But, doing this like a business to make money is just appalling. Sooner the trend dies off the better.
I think you misunderstand. The point here is not to make AK some "pro-content creation" (whatever you mean by this lol). Content Creators are necessary for game like Arknights because of how extremely hard to promote such a game. Hell, the reason why AK CN is a literal behemoth was not just because of AK itself but because of its huge community of Content Creators that range from niche clears, lore videos, to guides. HG are fully aware of this, hence why AK CN content creators are given so many privilege like early access to their irl events and many more. Also your point about CC "leach to make money off a game they did not develop" is such a weird point. If you are only dedicated about money, go crypto or some shit instead of a game that the general gacha community has not been a fan of for merely being a tower defence game.
As far as the content creation in Arknights creation is concerned, Firstly, every aspect of Arknights content has already been covered by a major content creator. For instance, Guides from Kyo, Story lore from Frostbyte, Operator review from Yii ( used to be ), .EXE from TakDes, Base and account progression guide from Kukikaze, Operator animations, skins from RiverV and Whale account reviews from you, etc. But sadly there are less and less collabs between them. We do lack community events with involvement of every big content creator. There should have been at least one like Jeopardy for each new interesting event to promote the game, ask questions about its side story, theory crafting, funny challenges in hard stages, discussion of operator kits ( tier lists, ... ), or like race to P6 when new banner comes out, interviews... I feel like AK content creators just scatter around, do their own things and niches without any interactions or anything. Secondly, most of Arknights content only tend to satisfy long-time Arknights players, not for newbie or like those who want to try the game out. For example they just don't want to watch a showcase which they have to grind for 6 months to be able to replicate. You have to understand that new players are the prime target for monetization. I know it is immoral but in terms of transactions, they are totally clueless and we have to take fully advantage from that, show them how to whale, rewind videos of why you should play AK now, AK's greatness as a strategy game, or why the game is not just simply tower-defense orientated, ... You cannot farm money from experienced AK players since they know how to save up, clear stages on their own,... Most of AK revenue is from 120-level players, hence it is so low... I admit beginner guides are still relevant but outdated, like if I want to play AK now, I'm not gonna watch guides made from like 2 or 3 years ago.... It shows that maybe the game content only focuses those who play since launch. It almost feels like new players are disregarded, like if you are a newbie, don't even dare to try hard stages, just do your plain things like daillies and story stages. It makes sense but still they will find boredom soon. Thirdly, the most important reason is Endfied is coming ! Especially for new players, what is the point ot playing AK when Endfield will be released soon. They're not willing to waste a year to reach mid and end-game content in Arknights and then just leave everything to start playing Endfield. AK Endfiled was teased too early, it is still in a technical test hence it has some sort of criticism: The game still needs to be polished like a lot in terms of combat and animations. Somehow it leads to the downfall of AK and the future of Endfield as well. Still I believe Endfied will be great in its complete version but Arknights is dying. With new gacha games emerge, new players are not gonna start playing Arknights now. They can litterally just wait till Endfield or those new games come out. Same for new content creators, what is the point of starting to make AK content from now, trying to become relevant and trending like you or other big content creators, trying to build an AK community on their own and in the end, they will be left alone because of Endfield ? There is also a reference to Girls' Frontline (GF). Don't you find it foolish to start making content for GF1 when GF2 is coming soon ? Arknights has been out for like 4 years, and the truth is smart and new content creators will focus on covering new and trending games only and perhaps stick to a main game where they find themselves popular. AK does not look promising at all for new youtubers. Additionally, it has been dominated and farmed by long-time content creators. P/S: Please don't discredit other AK youtubers and content creators ! They try their hardest to make specific content for their own viewers, what their own community wants to watch the most. Going wild and trying out new things in their content could possibly destroy their channels. I mean like Kukikaze and you can go creative and pave the way for AK content creation. Because even if you fail, at least you already have such a strong onlyfan base to back you up, to support you no matter what ! But it's just not for others, it's such a big gamble for them, they risk losing everything ! As far as monetization is concerned, I'm not looking down to f2p players. I am myself a f2p as well. I do genuinely endorse, look up and praise whales, lifespenders ( goldfish ) since I know the game needs money to develop. Nevertheless, f2p players are still important. They make the gaming commmunity engaging, they grind everyday to make the game remain revelant and contribute to the active playerbase in Arknights. That's why guides are still needed : AK is hardcore and not casual like Genshin. I mean we can find it funny that new players quit AK, claiming the game is too hard. But it's the actual truth... I wonder why f2p term has become such a meme in the whole gacha community itself... Is being poor a crime ? Like if those f2p players have extra money, I'm sure that they will support AK financially through transactions or they will just play other much more interesting games like GTAV, Starfield,... So yeah they are just trying their best to make Arknights still revelant, active and to confirm that the game is not dead yet. So don't look down on them. And let's just keep it straight ! Yii is such an opportunist content creator like Box2. He foresaw the doom future of Arknights so he decides to quit now and wait for new games coming out so as to become a big content creator there. It is what it is ! I do respect and love the guy, he is very smart indeed !
I think this video goes beyond just being a conversation on Arknights and is more a conversation on the current landscape of mobile live-service games. I don’t particularly play Arknights (though I enjoy watching content regarding it) but I do primarily play PGR and a lot of comments made here are very relevant to that game as well. The mobile game sphere is very competitive and almost bloated at this point which makes carving out a niche, or at a higher level, mainstream popularity incredibly difficult. Best of luck to the Arknights community though, you guys have definitely made a name for yourselves and it’s well deserved!
honestly I will stay because of qaisermlg if he completely quits then I will also because he is the main reason why I stay he might not be "consistent" or have "high quality" but he explains the lore amazingly and I love lore stuff, though a am a super "neice" person I like having my own territory with things
Also it's kinda funny that the community thinks that when the content creation side of things "die" for a gacha game that means the game itself is also dying... Bruh BA content creation almost doesn't exist but the game itself has proven that it's going strong.
Blue Archive has quite the contingent of shitposters who upload memes to TH-cam and A-Kun is always making thought provoking videos about the characters so I’d hardly say it doesn’t exist.
Honestly, maybe content creators should expand and think about some innovative content besides guides and operator showcases if those niches are already occupied? BA has student showcases, raids and guides, ofc it has, but it also has a lot of meme creators, illustrators, funny and provocative videos, AI voice over memes, etc. AK has some of those as well, but it is mostly on CN side that we don't get on TH-cam.
@@arthorias06 this, we barely get memes/animations that are not CN made for the Content Creation side of AK and people are acting like there's nothing to add to the content creation side of things
Yea yostar is terrible at marketing the game to the mass. There is barely any sponsorship. Barely any ads. And barely any event involving the community. Maybe it’s only in the Asian community but global usually gets nothing. The way it is, it’s just a niche game with a solid and stable community. The only TH-cam content I ever see about Arknights is guides. Lol
Vifer, for me the most reason that Global (English) has such problems is due the 6 months behind time. Due this so many go to Chinese Servers and there they get the fresh feeling. Yeah, we will miss out the future foresight and the clears, but that's that. Thank you Vifer for addressing this and happy that you are with us!
How do people play so many gacha games? It either takes way too much money or way too much time. Like I started AK a year late and it took me a lot of consistency and money to catch up with my friends who played from release. By now I have everything and am happy but it was a huge investment. I recently started playing AL but I am already considering dropping it because their events consume way too much time (on top of AK) and I am unwilling to pay too much into it. They grab for a lot of money, for dock space, gear space, pulls, skins. So with all these games out and them being so popular and seemingly played by everyone in the sphere… how?! Is it like a “Play the FOTM and move on when new FOTM arrives” kinda thing? If so then I could understand why I didn’t get it because that is antithetical to how I play games.
For me, I played Honkai impact for like 4years. Lots of memories and things I like, I stopped playing it completely because I'm not happy with the way developers are doing. Genshin: I enjoyed it in its 1st year. Now the game feels boring mainly due to the non-rewarding ultimate grinding experience. I quit it for good. It is a good game in general but not for me anymore. ZZZ seems big but as someone who has played HoYoverse games for years. I can already see the same formula in this game. I'm not gonna enjoy it. I'm enjoying Arknights atm. I can really feel the quality of this game. Everything is well made and very casual friendly. The biggest reason, there is less powercreep. Even the earliest 6 stars are viable. Every character has value and it feels good getting every one of them.
Ironically a wall of text incoming, so sorry for that. LOL While they are ultimately different games, I really do hope that Endfield acts more as a continuation of the legacy that Arknights leaves behind and deserves recognition for--not that it's dying or anything, but that's kind of what it feels like it might turn into. Especially speaking from a content creator perspective--I focused mainly on Genshin content creation over on Twitter, and I really wish I could do the same for Arknights. But it's like you said. It just doesn't gain nearly as much traction even though the community itself is so passionate about it. I hope that changes with Endfield (and also the anime!), and I have high hopes for it since it feels like something that people could get into even if they haven't played Arknights before. I also feel like... the formatting for Arknights in general leaves a lot to be desired in terms of content creating. People can make so many memes and videos about the gameplay itself, but when it comes down to the storytelling and lore aspects of it, it basically turns into a novel. In order for people to understand content that was created based on that, they would have to 1.) read aaaaaaaaaall of the text regarding that part of the lore and 2.) understand all of it. Which is a lot. LOL It's also sad because the lore, in my opinion and probably many others', is one of the huge selling points of Arknights and what makes it such a great game. Many other games have storytelling that is so much less stale, and I'm sorry for saying that but that's just how it is. Barely anything moves in the dialogue scenes, there's no voice acting, barely any special effects, no animated cutscenes for huge story points (this is excluding the trailers and stuff), and just tons of text. Massive amounts of text. Waaaaaaaaay too much text. Like for context btw I love the lore and DO spend time reading all of the story parts and dialogue and whatever for main story and events, but it's just SO MUCH text--which was also confirmed that multiple events have enough text to rival or surpass actual books. And that's why I'm hoping things like Endfield and the anime do a good job of making the storytelling more interesting while condensing the need for all the text and adding elements into the lore aspect that people can use to better understand everything. Because understanding the game easier from a third party perspective = easier to make content that people will understand and like. Also Yostar needs to stop restricting literally everything. They're such a drag.
Yeah I simply don't have the time to read multiple essays worth of frankly overwrought writing between stages 😭 lone trail has been the only one that I've put up with and am actually loving because of the setting and themes etc. I really hope we get more of this quality in the future
What i would like to say is that content creation for tower defense games is quite tough to do and kinda dry and cut.There is only so much entertaining you can squeeze out of events,new stages and such.Besides Lore,Event and Operator guides along with tutorials for stages and gacha pulls there isn t much to do videos about.
Yostar could do more to hype up the limited events. Lonetrail has an amazing look, an amazing story (I like Rhine labs events), and those events generally help in keeping the game relevant. But only the people already playing know those are coming.
I'm just sitting here, happy that the Tower Defense genre i grew up with thanks in part to playing flash games on Y8 got a non-Bloons video game popping off within the last decade.
After his latest Arknights' videos where he basically said that he doesn't enjoy playing anymore it doesn't surprise me. His latest video was really fun to watch, so I'll probably will keep watching his videos, and honestly wish him the best.
for the gacha game it self by player base, AK honestly quite decent. as same as BA, Nikke, PGR, or the New Re:1999. for carrier as CC gacha game is quite unstable and i think its okay to change game. what Yosar dont do is support their CC, like Vifer said. Hoyo, on CC side is always reach out their CC. they have good intend to communicate, but dosent mean this was easy. you can see on dead week (1-2 week before live annouce program) they kinda strugle to what else you must stream so kinda in same situation but better boat. for AK Enfield to canibal their AK player think they wont. but there is will part of player move on. because honestly playing AK. its like playing waiting game. "what happen in CN server its gonna happen in global so better wait" and this will keep repeat each half year. the differnt with HOYO game is they start on same time so there is much time to interact and learn each other from other community. make the game community more lively (both in positive and negative )
I don't know how I feel about this to be honest on one side I can sense that he's just no longer into Arknights for the past couple videos, and so I'm glad that he's listening to himself but on the other side, it makes me feel some way that I just can't explain. he's done very good, contributed to the Arknights community, and personally my gameplay quite a lot. I just wish that he would still make Arknights content with other content too, I don't understand why he would completely drop the game entirely
It's really sad to see Yii stop making Arknights videos but I'm happy he wants to broaden his video creation horizon. I do think Endfield might make all the difference in terms of bringing people to the game as I feel the game will appeal to a wider audience as the game will have broader appeal
Vifer, you're not going anywhere as long as there are still people you can scam. We know that, you know that. Stop acting like you have any other motive
what people think contributes to the growth of a game: TH-cam content creation, Developers supporting the community, fresh gameplay what actually contributes to the growth of a game: hentai artists being intrigued by certain characters of that game
Realistically as much as it sucks because I enjoyed the content. As long as my boy is happy I’ll continue to support. As in terms of the state of the game Arknights is the one game where I may stop to try other games but I’ll never leave. It’s the only game I play that requires me to think and I enjoy that about it.
It's a bummer to see Dreamy and now Yii bow out. There's still a lot of great creators, but I don't know anyone who provides overviews of new operators besides FrostByte262.
I dont want to talk like Yii is dying lol, but it bums me out that he's no longer gonna make AK videos. His personality was just easily watchable, but it was definitely apparent that he was getting bored and burned out. I hope he considers dabbling in it like every 2-3 months, but i'd watch him regardless. Curious to see what he's excited to make. :)
I think, it's more of a career thingy on top of some burnout.
Let's be honest, AK EN community is not as far-reaching as CN community.
This limit, is limiting Yii in many ways. I just pray hin doing well, he is a great content creator.
The Needy Streamer game review was amazing. Honestly it feels refreshing.
@QuickQuips I believe he also was forcing himself to do AK videos after his last break, they felt, less passionate, unwanted even.
And when he did what he truly wanted it felt like Yii was back once more.
@@DisIngRaM I think it's about wasted potential too, he has the voice, the humor, and idea to make anything watchable, sticking to Arknights the game that will inevitably be less and less popular in the future is probably not a good thing.
Atleast for me I thought since I first watch him like, I wanted to watch other kind of contents from him too.
His first long form video actually surprised me, he seemlessly moved his humor and analysis to a VERY different game. Like, he absolutely has the potential to be the next SkillUp or YongYea.
I'm 100% sticking around to see where he's going.
It was a bittersweet day for the Amiyafumo Nation. Cheers and farewell, Blue Man.
I am genuinely so sad the amiyafumo cinematic universe will never get the conclusion it deserved.
But he seemed SO much more passionate about the first game he reviewed... honestly it's a joy to see his content when he's not jokingly but clearly struggling with mental health aspects. Depressed Yii Arknights Videos are not worth the toll on his mental health.
Indd.
It was fun while it lasted.
Anyhow cheerio and take care.
Blue man, we sadge 😢
im just sad no more funny angelina outro
I'll miss yii's AK vids but damn his new content feels like will unlock his potential as a content creator
Facts
Dont worry after endfield global relase he will be top youtuber
Oh hello misturr strimmer, shir
Considering his current views, it is 100% NOT his potential.
Agree strongly with vifer. I actually largely love the state of arknights, but it's tough for content creators
But, why should a game even cater to content creators? These people aren’t even developing mods or something for the game. It’s just making money by sharing strategies. There was a time when people just shared and discussed these things for free without expecting any compensation. The idea that one should be able to make money off of it is just outright nonsensical when you think about it. It’s lame.
@@eufrosniad994 more successful content creators = more attention to game = more potential players = more potential players that spend money = more profit
@@DylansLappalterCopium You are correct that this is the current model companies tend to follow. Content creators are essentially a free source of advertising. However, this model is not necessary and I would even say that it is unhealthy. If a company wants to promote their game, let them spend money on advertising and promotional events. Players or consumers shouldn’t also be in the business of providing advertising for games anyway. Just enjoy it and share interesting stuff with the community for the sake of just sharing and not monetizing. Play what you enjoy for the enjoyment. Not to make money etc.
@@eufrosniad994 But a lots of content creators like Yii don't really make any money off of videos, At most it will be a few cents for his average view count.
Sadly for a mobile game, your average arknights ads not gonna sway anybody. Content creator are the most straightforward way to get any eye to notices it, strategy guide, fan art, fan animation, etc.
@@eufrosniad994look for me personally I'm one of those people making content and stuff just to share it. Itd be great if I could make money from it but I'm not there yet nor do I expect to with how inconsistent I am. There's nothing wrong with adding things in that make it easier for people to make content of your game whether its for money or not.
The revelation about Endfield Angelina really hit him hard. 😢
Jokes aside, I’m gonna miss his small segments before he discusses AK and the quips he makes. It was really hilarious and enjoyable. Best of luck to him and may he never encountered another blue woman in the future.
Huh? What happened
@@3takoyakisEndfield Angelina is a clone of the original
@@thedeltarayquaza2823 ... Why would they even. Both also have same name. DAMN you HG
@@3takoyakis Basically since EF takes place in the far distant future, at one point, OG Angelina decided to participate in something called the Heterokaryon Project, where the project would have permission to clone her and that clone would continue on her legacy in the future. She wrote and left a letter to her would-be clone and told the clone everything about about herself, the OG Angelina and her accomplishments.
This basically gave the clone motivation and wants to be just as good as her “senior” (OG Angelina), while wanting to carve a story of her own that she can be proud of.
@@yujisawada3397 now we are gonna wait angelina alter alter alter lol
Arknights youtubers will slowly transition to Arknights Endfield when it releases, tower defense is not a game for everyone who likes stylish hack and slash open world play style, it's a game that fries people's brain for using brain if the stages are hard enough.
As much as i love the direction Endfiled is taking right now, i don't think people will find the base building aspect of the game easier than our little tower defense game. It will fry brains too.
Yeah, it's not a friendly game for newbies
Especially for F2P players
@@Therestrial205 "Especially for F2P players", huh? What are you talking about?
@@Therestrial205 how is a basebuilder not f2p friendly
@@Therestrial205how’s AK “not a friendly game for newbies and f2p’s”? pls elaborate
It's unfortunate to see him go, but I'll definitely still watch his new videos. I really hope he takes off and finds the same success or even greater success in his new content.
I've only been playing since last January, but I've enjoyed Yii's videos and I'm sad to see him go. That being said...I'd be lying if I said that I didn't see it coming. His heart didn't seem to be in the last few AK videos he's done, and honestly, I'm glad that he decided to transition to what he really wants to do rather than force himself to do AK content and for it to be mediocre. I've seen it happen before, and it's always better to go out with a bang than with a whimper.
He was already thinking about quitting. He was just in denial in this video. lmao
No matter what content he makes, his name will forever be Yii Arknights.
cringe af
yii arknights
"no matter how much u want to branch out to move on a new page, we still gonna bother you about arknights and make it like the only thing good in your channel is arknight" that what you trying to say?
@@autisticvietcong8898What a braindead take you just made 💀
@@autisticvietcong8898 i think its just a joke man, no need to read so deep into it
I agree. It's really sad. I love this game and I personally think i'll be playing it for at least the next 5 years or so. It's easy to stick with and I love the challenge whenever it shows itself.
I do understand that content creation really burns you out sometimes though.
His content was something I genuinely looked forward to watching. It's quite sad that we lost another good man, but he'll always and forever will be the Yii Arknights I'll support to the end. Godspeed to you, Blue man that kissed Zafang o7
Talking about content creator, i really recomend you guys to watch Roriipupper, he was making a goddamn good quality of Arknight meme. He was have so much potential but not much attention.
Holy shit. I just saw this while going through the comments reading on people's thoughts on the whole subject matter. TYSM.
Rarely do I see people vouch for me on other people's comment section.
Thank you for the support!
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@@Roriipupper no way the guy was in the comment. I love your quality of content and your type of joke, never stop man!
I still think Arknights is one of the best tower defense game that I ever played. No other TD game has a slew of unique mechanics and play style compared to Arknights
I agree with everything you mentioned in this video. Talking with you over discord really helped me realized that I wasn't alone in my thinking as an Arknights creator. It's been rough being torn between supporting a game you love and trying to grow as a creator. The last 6-8 months I've been struggling with the idea of jumping ship and expanding the channel to other content. With Endfield being shown and looking better it feels more appealing to stay but at the same time you have no idea when it'll come and if it'll even do well a year later. Gacha is a hard market to brand as a creator and build something on. I've told my community many times that I wish I could just be an AK only creator but at this time it's not worth the amount of effort as the growth ceiling is so small. At this point random videos get more subscribers than most of my Arknights content. I'm thankful to have the type of support I've gotten from Arknights but my channel hasn't grown in months.
I'd like to also talk about the lack of support as a creator from Yostar and Arknights events. There have been times when events would happen, and only certain people could restream or get support. It was frustrating as a full-time AK creator to get ignored when trying to do community live streams around the concerts for example and have to sit on the sidelines watching other creators have fun with their communities because they were given permission, and you weren't. Not a jab at the other creators as those events SHOULD be live streamable to the community but it was the pick and choose mentality from Yostar that was annoying. It never really feels like Yostar is working with us, rather they just let us "hang around". Hoyoverse is like a 180 from this. I don't even make Hoyoverse related content but have always been reached out to about upcoming events and betas around their games. I've never been sponsored but the mere fact that they reached out to see if I was interested in their games was way more than I've gotten from Yostar in the whole 1.5 years I covered Arknights.
I know Yii will do great things in the future and I'm glad they we're able to find the courage to go down a path that isn't as comfortable for them. I feel this was something Yii HAD to do in order to grow. The level of time and effort put into their videos was almost wasted in this space and could easily grow them much faster in a broader niche.
I'll always stick around with you Zack!
Waiting patiently for what other games you're going to cook with 👍
@@kenkaneki3873 I appreciate you!
sad to see him go, I really enjoy his content and the way he did it
And now... We lost him...
i really hope that HG/Yostar do more on advertising the game in EN. look at JP, they got 10 pulls everytime the game got to top downloaded, and they did it not just once but consistently. being AK content creator in EN is super hard, and it only get harder
That's unfair man. It happened TWICE and maybe more. EN got shit
HG focus on China and yostar focus in Japan. At least yostar try to do it for en sometimes while most gacha Dev doesn't care to advertising their games outside Japan like hoyoverse
@@fenjix5982nah bro, I'm not going to defend hoyoverse, but trust me, in terms of community coverage, hoyoverse is a lot better than yostar. Just see how ZZZ has a lot of advertising and compare it to Enfield, which don't have any news at all until alpha test
@@fenjix5982 I am not sure what exactly you mean, but hoyoverse actually bombardes everyone with their ads. I guess they didn't translate genshin and hsr to so many languages for nothing
It's not helping that there's a strong stigma against gacha games in the west, unlike Asian countries.
Well this aged like milk
Yii was one of the best content creators i ever saw, he made really really quality content, i whish him luck in this decision.
I think the easiest comparison I can make is when Jerma and RTGame transitioned out of making just TF2 videos. Nowadays pretty much everyone I talk to has heard of or about them. Wishing Yii the best for the future.
Jerma never made just tf2 videos. What he did is completely stop making tf2 videos. Then it took him many years to become popular.
This is pretty much a gacha-wide phenomenon. Its just some creators hide it better than others I feel. But Im glad Yii expanded his horizons because gacha can only provide so much for content creators. Also a lot of creators would feel trapped in continue making content for the same gacha for years on despite burn out because they want to maintain their fanbase or keep them happy which adds onto further pressures. So yuh hope the best for Yii for his future endeavors. AND VIFER TOO Vifer variety ???!
I'm pretty glad to hear that the ark nights content creators are close and talk to each other!
I think, it's more of a career thingy.
Let's be honest, AK EN community is not as far-reaching as CN community.
This limit, is limiting Yii in many ways. I just pray hin doing well, he is a great content creator.
This was deep for an arknights video, wasnt expecting to hear all of this but I do know what your talking about. I will say that Yostar is not doing a good job getting content creators to join in, which is indeed a shame. Rip to Yii but hope he enjoys what he does next, and Vifer you be a solid one with this video and lets see everyone in Endfield.
I'm not surprised he quit, it's a common phenomenal that occurred in any games, even for big games, let alone a gacha game, it's part of the cycle. How fast the process is depends on the game and the person whether game is dying or person is busy irl or burnout or both.
In current state of Arknights the game is far from dying revenue wise.
I'm more of a sad we lost incredible content creator.
It's like Oripathy, to slow the process we gotta support these content creator and avoid drama within the community.
i cant believe Yii Arknights sacrifice himself to bring us Endfield truly the greatest knight in arknights
I am fine if you quit too Vifer, what I enjoy the most is your humor haha 😄. I hope you don't have to quit TH-cam at least 🙂.
I had been expecting this ngl. He has been hinting this for months. Will probably still watch him because he is very entertaining
I honestly believe another factor in that plays in Arknights popularity is that it isn't a "main game" kind of game. Its a side game, that game that you play a 30mins to an hour+ then move on to your main game, you enjoy it when theres events, you enjoy the gacha since the game is quite generous enough, you enjoy the characters, the AMAZING fucking music, and you enjoy your waifu/husbando. No content creator out there that would dedicate their entire time to focus on a side game simple as, for our community and our amazing dedicated content creators, its the absolute love for the game hence they dedicate their time for us, amazing Arknights content creators like Kyo, Frostbyte, kukki, cesith, eckogen, yii, Oyuki etc. (but a lot of them branch out since the content you can make for Arknights is really limited like I stated earlier since its a side game.) Unlike other games where you can milk the fuck out of it or bait the hell of the game for content I honestly believe Arknights is really limited.
That’s exactly how I play it. I haven’t even touched IS2 yet, I just don’t want to invest the extra time right now. I may lose out on some ressources but that’s fine.
bruh what kind of side game runs for 30min-1hour
I'm not really a gacha gamer, Arknights is the only gacha game I play, but I betcha that part of what's keeping Arknights from growing and maintaining their playerbase are the long ass cutscenes and walls of dialogue each and every time you start and finish a stage, whether in the campaign or the limited events. It's so tiresome it turns off new would be players, and even burns out old time players. Arknights has a good story, they just need to make it more accessible to casuals then the game would grow more.
No gacha games are main games. Genshin content creators play abyss over and over. It's no more than a 10 minute a day game.
It isn't at all because it's not a main game. It's because it isn't easy enough. Genshin is popular af because it's a baby game.
The simple fact is there is just way less people playing this game than other popular games. Games like Genshin are popular with little kids. Little kids spend all day watching yt and tiktok vids. Content creators that want to get big will make vids about games that people talk about a lot more than they play. Just the sad truth.
@@Raptchur Man, look at this guy here. Too badass, too cool for "baby game".
This has to happen if Yii wanted to grow as a content creator. Let's be honest, Arknights is really dry in content most of the time. What is there to cover? What is there to present? Lore? Big brained strats? Analysis?
Arknights is a good game but it is not enough to grow as a content creator. Yii leaving is a good choice for him to improve and explore more of his talents.
I think it is more accurate to say that it is a good game to play, but not a good game to make content of, like most other gatcha games except Genshin and HSR. Genshin and HSR are exception purely due to the sheer number of its players and popularity.
@@ammarbaagucontent creators quit genshin all the time once you finished story what else is there to do besides events or abyss?
@@devilkazumi578
People literally watching some dude play abyss mutiple times to Test run teams
Meta teams, weird teams, niche teams
In genshin. Decent viewer numbers and decent Archives views on yt.
So no. Genshin literally has content. Personality wise it also helps some people just like watching people play the main story.
Sadly arknights still hasnt chosen to put voicelines on the story.
Instead they choose to keep making more characters wasting more opportunity to make the story better.
@@yuusha2150 that gets very boring to watch....and ppl complain about genshin story all the time and complain about there being no skip button
@@devilkazumi578 bruh I literally just fcking said People watch them.
How the fact you go "thats boring" but the proof is right there that genshin streamers have an actual audience live watchin them do the story.
Jesus read.
Also don't act as if Arknights way of story telling isnt so outdated... so you telling me people want to watch a Streamer with the worst reading voice read a light novel? Lol
Also comeon you act as if, arknights streamers literal only content is them Making shit up by Doing different teams and meta shit too.
The fuck are you saying? If a Genshin streamer testing 10+ abyss teams then a Arknights streamer testing 10+ operator comps and run a stage like 20 times just to get that High rank score on contigency is also boring af.
Back to Arknights -Lightnovel type story telling, repeating audio Effects for story telling "Slash vfx "sword steel clanking vfx" for every fight scene in Arknights lol.
And also. Arknights got a lot of complainers to, most of arknights story is to fcking convuluted, long, so Vague and tiring to read.
I read till chapter 8 it was awesome. Any past that just really got Lame. Especially the event ones. Having need to Read that shit on the event for 3 hours while it being timelimited. Yeah no way you'll force me to read a voiceless event that I need to read for 3 hours.
I rather play genshin events with voicelines and enjoy that.
Skip button is an only complain about non readers. Thats it. But its not a reason for "story to much". If we argue Arknights is like the bible to read for every event story.
And genshin is a normal Manga with one new chapter. Easy to intake and enjoy.
5:15 Eha did mention that when he tried to have a consistent upload schedule, he rushed quite a few vid. So ye he's not going to be consistent anytime soon
I like Yii as content creators rather than AK player but him quiting AK is a big lose in AK community. This is sad but understandable. I miss 1 year ago when my yt recommendation full with AK .EXE meme, lore, guide etc now only few left.
True, it feels like we will be geting the big contend drought again :(
Nowadays I feel like guides are mostly useless, AK genuinely doesn't need more than 2-3 content creators, focusing on guides. And majority of viewers would just check Kyostin video anyways.
There is definitely not enough meme creators or in general people who can produce content outside the game. Like idk, do a speedpaint vid of you drawing an AK character? Or AI voice over for meme situations between characters. I guess it is too much effort and if your first vid flops you'll be discouraged from trying this type of content again.
Also I do think there should be more lore focused content creators (I rarely read an event nowadays cause I am too busy irl for Arknights writing lol). Maybe there are some but I just know one.
Alright, I'm tired of this shit
Dear any AK content creator: if you wanna cover games other than AK, just do it. No one prohibits you from doing whataver you want on your own channel. Why bother saying goodbye or worse, asking your viewers to unsub just because you stop covering AK. Like what the hell is that attitude? AK community is not a bunch of heartless savages that only care about content. I don't really watched Yii, but those captions seem like the highlight of his relationship to his viewers, I hope I'm wrong.
My assumptions are it either he just little dramatic or his relationship with his viewer kindda whacky goofy ahh
you dont know him lil bro
@@spiiralwya I told you I don't watch him and unaware of his personality and such. But as a non-Yii-viewer, watching a creator asking his audience to go unsub after years of being together...is kinda inappreciative and self centered.
Maybe he just being a bit dramatic, or that's just the part of his goofy ahh relationship with his audience, as someone said above.
@@prettysureidateyourmom5104 that's fair. It could be part of inside joke between him and his audience as well, like this is the Yii that his viewers know would do.
From his videos and discord interactions, I can kinda surmise he's a very "give no two shits and be insanely frank with 0 PR moves". Instead of reading it in a melancholy tone, read it as just a dude passing through. Casual, fast and to the point.
Marketing wise, Yostar is doing a bad job at advertising Arknights the ads will be the end of me and let's not forget the fact they reused the same Dossoles animation for 2 ads
Typical China game ads lol
Arknights in its current state I think is fine and perfectly healthy, its just the classic issue of "We've been playing for four years and getting burnt out", not to mention its still a 2d mobile game and for as fun as Arknights is to play and watch challenge runs of it doesn't bring in the views as something like a Hoyoverse game does or whatever newly released triple A game just came out. I do think there's some great content creators in the AK scene right now, but those content creators are mainly fueled by passion for the game and passion can only take you so far before it begins to fail you. So I fully understand and support Yii's decision to go into more general content creation, and I really do wish him the best.
i think it is inevitable fate of live service game. There will always be newer and shinier games, and thus less time to focus on game you once love, people also come and go and the status quo is quickly changed
Damm it, i just joined the comunity 3 weeks ago and yii really helped a lot, hope he finds his new content something enjoyable.
This was a really interesting video as a lot of the things you talked about are questions I have been asking for a while and its good to hear other AK content creators opinions on the game and its growth. Content creation for any gacha game can be quite limited but I think with AK due to the chapter sizes and no VA, that takes away a huge portion of the content that could be made which is people watching cc react/play the story as they may not want to read over an 70k written story twice. I think this is one of the issues with AK as all the other games mentioned do have that voice acting aspect that does make them more accessible and the writing is a lot shorter so its easier to stream/make videos on. I think its an issue that can be fixed with endfield but that raises another question as to whether or not endfield will just BECOME the only AK game and arknights could suffer a decrease in their player base but also if more AK creators will just leave to play AK endfield. I think another benefit endfield will have is that they can focus a portion of marketing around specific characters and build hype up in livestreams and get big names for the VA work (commonly see in genshin/hsr)
It would be nice if hypergryph could do more to work with content creators, i think not just sponsoring big streamers to play the game but working with arknights content creators established in the community would be a great thing too. I dont really know what else could be done to expand this game further and make the content more successful but I think the community aspect of it is the key as in my experience, cc making content linked with the community or with future content does tend to be more successful. Or we call just quit for HSR 😂 ill have to check out your reverse 1999 videos tho - loving that game so far!
Heeeey it's yooooou (:
I kinda feel like there isn’t enough content creator that talks about the story/lore of the game. When I look on TH-cam, I almost only see guides, operator showcases, and some nicheknight stuff. The story of arknights is amazing, especially the lone trail story we have right now. But I don’t see enough people talk about it on TH-cam, that is just unfortunate. I really wish there are people who does content creations around the lore of arknights, like VaatiVidya who does contents around the dark souls, elden ring, and bloodborne series. Think about it, for the souls games, the community always says “Vaati help!” When they want to know the lore of the game, for arknights, there is kyostinV when people need help for clearing certain stages, but there isn’t someone like that for the lore of arknights. Having more content creators covering the story/lore of the game is definitely going to attract more people to the game too. But unfortunately I feel like this part of our community is just lacking.
We Kind of have a few, but the problem is how tho lore is conected to everything
@@hideandslide4586 true, I just feel like these lore content creators don’t get enough attention. The community need to be exposed to the story more, then people would start to see the connections.
Arknights is my favorite gacha game and I love it to bits. I agree that yostar needs to do something, hell maybe even let gryph frontier do something instead. Im confident HG or GF could figure something out. But one day maybe we can get something like that in the future.
I wish i had time to turn my streams into full content with edits but i have a full time job and a part time job as well. (Not to mention a lot of other things) but i dont have the time or motivation (adhd kicking me there. (Looking for medication for that)) to learn how to edit and take that time to edit as well. If i didnt need to work as much maybe it could change. Im just unsure as of what to do sonetimes.
Farewell Doctor YII and vifr I have been getting your curse of 4* bags and wrong ops in wrong banner
Hope he finds success. I wish him the best.
As for me, even when Endfield launches, I'll still be playing Arknights.
What “learning your waifu f#cking died and become an clone” does to a MF…
"Here is Yii"
_operator defeated sound effect_
Yii is a former AK Ytuber of the Specialists class. Why specialist you ask ? Yii can move while not having legs. If that aint special then I dont know what is.
Yii`s first talent is "Kyaaa~"
Yii`s second talent is "AmiyaPog"
yii's videos really shows how he sounds bored at Arknights, but his messages are very short & clear, its interesting.. also, normal stages of Arknights are very boring nowadays, with how some Operators are too powerful/POWER in clearing them.. so new modes (IS/SSS/RA/PO etc.) really good, the developer knows their players well, that it hits the "wall", and introduces new stuffs.. so far, Arknights still going strong, and my main game (others games comes seconds or so) ADD : Not going to play Endfields, I play Arknights because of how simple it is.. and that game is far from that, its like Genshin Impact/Honkai Impact, quite heavy to play (I don't want to burden my machine)
Everyone love chap 12 tho , imagine every new event have that lever of depth ,arknight'll rise again
I thought it was a semi joke tweet lol. Anyway, gonna watch him no matter what lol. But i would like arknights vids here and there from Yii Arknights, the creator of Amiya pog
Not tweet, a post. Brain damage happened
My guess, many arknights content creator will be back when endfield drops, so taking break on arknights universe right now is maybe better than getting burnt out when endfield starts. Then more people will start trying arknights to understand the lore behind the game.
if you havent done anything bad, I dont need to unsub from you.
tho i probably not gonna watch yii's new contents, but unsubbing is not necessary for me
tbh, when he posted the hour long video of the streamer game, I was excited. it's pretty hard to stick to one game, much less psyche yourself up and muster enough energy to make videos about it on a consistent basis. i hope he doesn't drop the game altogether, but it's always cool to branch out and do as you like. i know I for one am staying subbed.
I hope he keeps up the funny skits though.
Well at least he’ll still be making videos. I thought he died for a second.
Take it from a guy who mainly plays Girls Frontline, you guys have it pretty good when it comes to content creators. Don’t take it for granted.
I took a rest on AK for months. Then I played Reverse:1999 last week. Ngl, it made me came back to play AK. Lol.
You mentioned all the big games out there but only Arknights truly made me stay. Idk, I got bored on other gacha like GI or HSR. Even the R99 which was introduced by you is boring me. AK can make me login daily without cc videos or fyps reminding me it exists.
The game is awesome but i miss some things so i started trying to make a modding frameworknfor the game so we can add our own content but i hit a few roadblocks, the devs are reworking a lot of the internals of the game so there may be interesting things in the future for me it meant to almost start from scratch once again which is always sad and almost made me quit my project as well...
As you said lack of time sucks, having "a life" makes you edge a blade where you try to keep with your proyects and work and it can become unhealthy.
I hope he does well, maybe expanding the borders of what he does makes him able to start living from it instead of trying to do magic to balance everything out.
With a bit of time maybe he does some arknights videos once and again (or maybe anything else that we can enjoy)
Sorry for the wall of text and if anyone wants to know about the modding project, feel free to write me a message anywhere.
Have a gread day you all
They just needed to add sweep function earlier. Its the only reason why i stop playing it and only return when there is limited banner with free wishes. Waiting 4.5 years for this basic function is crazy. Should have happened like 2 years ago.
His newest video is definitely a treat to watch, and good for him for transitioning into something he likes to make videos more of. Arknights is a difficult media for content creators to cover, and i think it limits yii, so it's a good decision that he switched to more general contents/video essays. Im still gonna miss him making arknights videos tho. Who knows, im pretty sure he still plays arknights, but stopped making videos about it instead as it is getting stale as of late. We really need something to spice up the gameplay, like another gamemode, and i heard that RA is coming back on the cn side
Amazing analysis/comentary into this situation. I think what makes someone be that engaged in making videos, etc is love, but one sooner or later we will start to get a bit bored of it, and thats normal, it s fine. But I think one day Yii might look it back and see all the fun and love he felt and drop onother AK video just bc I think he was moved by this love of the game/comunity at the start (this is he really don't have something that really had upset him, which I really doubt)
I think the problem with arknights is that its hard to make exciting content on it.
I think the game is good, but just very hard to make content on other then sharing youre clears.
I do love Arknights, but I will admit that the only content I watched consistently is Yii, and thats mainly for his personality.
Sadly Arknights is just difficult to make content about.
All due respect I never heard of this guy I only watch Box2, Kukkikaze, Dr Volke, KyostinV and Vifer. But RIP regardless. I understand how badly the gacha can make you feel and how the content is now just "Is X operator good?"
Heck man... watching this now
It's just a normal for games... One day you heard about Elden Ring and now it suddenly become a legend... One day you heard about HSR and suddenly it become nothing... One day you heard about warcraft III and now nobody talks about it... Gacha especially doesn't leave that much of an impact towards players (aside for appreciations) and the tendency of a gacha games to be repetitive, it was going to die sooner or later... Let us just enjoy what we have rn and worry about the future when the time comes...
Goodluck Yii on your new journey,.. hopefully we can see more funny explanation videos about anime next
It is sad how AK content consumption is this small over here
Are you perhaps next?😢
You next 😈
my opinion for arknight is dying, is that you don't see alot of communities channel or dedicated Shitposting arknight or anything meme related and i can say this because I watch alot of animation arknight and meme for 3 to 4 years and saved all of it on my private playlist. i don't ever know what happened like most of the channel either deleted or private their video. all of it are gone and i don't even know what happened. Vifer can you give me context or anyone here knows what happened to those videos i can still see them in Bilibili website (i don't used it tho) but most of them are still there.
Since you said you can still see them in Bilibili then I assume what you saw was content that was stolen from CN. There's been a lot of channel that used to steal and repost CN contents here on YT and more than often they got reported and ended up being deleted.
@@arclight5934 okay that make sense.
You are correct, for some reason Global AK content creators feel like meme/shitpost kind of videos are either won't bring an audience or it is too much effort.
"Don't see dedicated Arknights shitposting channel or meme related."
Oh my God, how have you not seen Roriipupper yet? That guy consistently makes hight tier arknights shitposts but for some reason I don't see that guy being talked a lot. His videos deserves more views than what they have.
I don't see any channel Arknights channel that does stuff on the same level as him.
@@arthorias06Watch Roriipupper, that guy makes such high quality shitposts but doesn't get as much views.
we lost another, but hey, dont lose hope, hopefully
The crux of the issue imo is simply that a strategy tower defense game like AK isn't all that entertaining to watch for most people, Endfield might be alot better for content creation I'm hoping.
This video hits something in my heart ;_;
Arknights is still doing great with this update, it's been sitting in the Top Grossing's Top 10 this week.
1) yostar needs to invest in growing the community/playerbase
I started playing AK because I had seen some art of characters in the past, and then a few months ago I started getting YT ads for the game and I think I recognized a character or something. The marketing animations for AK are so fucking gorgeous and not just entirely focused on aggressive fanservice so they caught my interest and I had to check it out. If Yostar would put more effort into getting Arknights' name out there then I think they could really boost interest in the game because the marketing that they DO make is S tier stuff. I had no interest at all in gacha games before AK, but the ads were just that good that they hooked me
2) yostar needs to invest in strengthening the community that already exists
Creator led community events like Vifer's PvP tournaments are amazing, but if yostar established an official PvP league or something (and invite Vifer to be the commentator because he's great at it) then I think they could really tighten up the community. The first time I saw one of Vifer's PvP videos, I was actually blown away by how compelling and engaging it was. For one thing, I did not think AK could be adapted to a PvP format and was pretty pessimistic going into that first video, but its surprisingly simple and elegant. And beyond that, it actually lends itself amazingly well to tense, fast paced competition despite opponents not directly interacting at all
I'm falling asleep at the keyboard here, but I think yall can figure out where I'm going with this
this is sad, hearing you talk like that... i also did not expect yii to just go like that, he's one of many reason i'm playing this game. Idk man, i feel like i just lost something. Arknight content creator is nice and fun to wacth, and it's never gonna be the same again
Maybe what happening was a lot of people started to do things like work which previously halted for years, some people bring back to busy life of being a student or being an Employee to a busy big company or even fastfood chains that had no more time to watch TH-cam or Twitch. This is not only happening in Arknights but also to other Channels.
I believe that the lockdown because of pandemic made a lot of content creator and a lot of player to gacha games (since they are free to play) but now everything are much busier than before so yeah it make sense the sudden drop of viewers and players as time goes by.
Dreamy gone... 777ucky... now yii? This is depression express.
I thought 777ucky was gonna come back but i guess not
@@NeoSpira he is too busy with irl job and sometimes come back if there is interesting stuff happening. Reminding me when dreamy decide to comeback temporarily when RA mode introduce in AK cn.
Yii probably got shocked that Angelina in Endfield is not the same Angelina in Arknights
Still, I will still consume Yii content despite his transition. I'll say that his first video for the transition is really good, I advise other peeps to go watch it.
This might be an unpopular take, but this idea of a game needing to be pro-content creation is somewhat odd. Content creators of this type essentially leach to make money off of a game they did not develop. It’s one thing to share strategies for free and simple reputation among the community like it happened even back in the day. But, doing this like a business to make money is just appalling. Sooner the trend dies off the better.
I think you misunderstand. The point here is not to make AK some "pro-content creation" (whatever you mean by this lol). Content Creators are necessary for game like Arknights because of how extremely hard to promote such a game. Hell, the reason why AK CN is a literal behemoth was not just because of AK itself but because of its huge community of Content Creators that range from niche clears, lore videos, to guides. HG are fully aware of this, hence why AK CN content creators are given so many privilege like early access to their irl events and many more. Also your point about CC "leach to make money off a game they did not develop" is such a weird point. If you are only dedicated about money, go crypto or some shit instead of a game that the general gacha community has not been a fan of for merely being a tower defence game.
As far as the content creation in Arknights creation is concerned,
Firstly, every aspect of Arknights content has already been covered by a major content creator. For instance, Guides from Kyo, Story lore from Frostbyte, Operator review from Yii ( used to be ), .EXE from TakDes, Base and account progression guide from Kukikaze, Operator animations, skins from RiverV and Whale account reviews from you, etc. But sadly there are less and less collabs between them. We do lack community events with involvement of every big content creator. There should have been at least one like Jeopardy for each new interesting event to promote the game, ask questions about its side story, theory crafting, funny challenges in hard stages, discussion of operator kits ( tier lists, ... ), or like race to P6 when new banner comes out, interviews... I feel like AK content creators just scatter around, do their own things and niches without any interactions or anything.
Secondly, most of Arknights content only tend to satisfy long-time Arknights players, not for newbie or like those who want to try the game out. For example they just don't want to watch a showcase which they have to grind for 6 months to be able to replicate. You have to understand that new players are the prime target for monetization. I know it is immoral but in terms of transactions, they are totally clueless and we have to take fully advantage from that, show them how to whale, rewind videos of why you should play AK now, AK's greatness as a strategy game, or why the game is not just simply tower-defense orientated, ... You cannot farm money from experienced AK players since they know how to save up, clear stages on their own,... Most of AK revenue is from 120-level players, hence it is so low... I admit beginner guides are still relevant but outdated, like if I want to play AK now, I'm not gonna watch guides made from like 2 or 3 years ago.... It shows that maybe the game content only focuses those who play since launch. It almost feels like new players are disregarded, like if you are a newbie, don't even dare to try hard stages, just do your plain things like daillies and story stages. It makes sense but still they will find boredom soon.
Thirdly, the most important reason is Endfied is coming !
Especially for new players, what is the point ot playing AK when Endfield will be released soon. They're not willing to waste a year to reach mid and end-game content in Arknights and then just leave everything to start playing Endfield. AK Endfiled was teased too early, it is still in a technical test hence it has some sort of criticism: The game still needs to be polished like a lot in terms of combat and animations. Somehow it leads to the downfall of AK and the future of Endfield as well. Still I believe Endfied will be great in its complete version but Arknights is dying. With new gacha games emerge, new players are not gonna start playing Arknights now. They can litterally just wait till Endfield or those new games come out.
Same for new content creators, what is the point of starting to make AK content from now, trying to become relevant and trending like you or other big content creators, trying to build an AK community on their own and in the end, they will be left alone because of Endfield ? There is also a reference to Girls' Frontline (GF). Don't you find it foolish to start making content for GF1 when GF2 is coming soon ? Arknights has been out for like 4 years, and the truth is smart and new content creators will focus on covering new and trending games only and perhaps stick to a main game where they find themselves popular. AK does not look promising at all for new youtubers. Additionally, it has been dominated and farmed by long-time content creators.
P/S:
Please don't discredit other AK youtubers and content creators ! They try their hardest to make specific content for their own viewers, what their own community wants to watch the most. Going wild and trying out new things in their content could possibly destroy their channels. I mean like Kukikaze and you can go creative and pave the way for AK content creation. Because even if you fail, at least you already have such a strong onlyfan base to back you up, to support you no matter what ! But it's just not for others, it's such a big gamble for them, they risk losing everything !
As far as monetization is concerned, I'm not looking down to f2p players. I am myself a f2p as well. I do genuinely endorse, look up and praise whales, lifespenders ( goldfish ) since I know the game needs money to develop. Nevertheless, f2p players are still important. They make the gaming commmunity engaging, they grind everyday to make the game remain revelant and contribute to the active playerbase in Arknights. That's why guides are still needed : AK is hardcore and not casual like Genshin. I mean we can find it funny that new players quit AK, claiming the game is too hard. But it's the actual truth... I wonder why f2p term has become such a meme in the whole gacha community itself... Is being poor a crime ? Like if those f2p players have extra money, I'm sure that they will support AK financially through transactions or they will just play other much more interesting games like GTAV, Starfield,... So yeah they are just trying their best to make Arknights still revelant, active and to confirm that the game is not dead yet. So don't look down on them.
And let's just keep it straight ! Yii is such an opportunist content creator like Box2. He foresaw the doom future of Arknights so he decides to quit now and wait for new games coming out so as to become a big content creator there. It is what it is ! I do respect and love the guy, he is very smart indeed !
What is that doomposting lmao
I think this video goes beyond just being a conversation on Arknights and is more a conversation on the current landscape of mobile live-service games. I don’t particularly play Arknights (though I enjoy watching content regarding it) but I do primarily play PGR and a lot of comments made here are very relevant to that game as well. The mobile game sphere is very competitive and almost bloated at this point which makes carving out a niche, or at a higher level, mainstream popularity incredibly difficult. Best of luck to the Arknights community though, you guys have definitely made a name for yourselves and it’s well deserved!
honestly I will stay because of qaisermlg if he completely quits then I will also because he is the main reason why I stay he might not be "consistent" or have "high quality" but he explains the lore amazingly and I love lore stuff, though a am a super "neice" person I like having my own territory with things
Also it's kinda funny that the community thinks that when the content creation side of things "die" for a gacha game that means the game itself is also dying... Bruh BA content creation almost doesn't exist but the game itself has proven that it's going strong.
Blue Archive has quite the contingent of shitposters who upload memes to TH-cam and A-Kun is always making thought provoking videos about the characters so I’d hardly say it doesn’t exist.
@@thedigitaldummy3098 talking about "guide" style of CCs which other than Valiant(who stopped doing character reviews) barely exist.
Honestly, maybe content creators should expand and think about some innovative content besides guides and operator showcases if those niches are already occupied?
BA has student showcases, raids and guides, ofc it has, but it also has a lot of meme creators, illustrators, funny and provocative videos, AI voice over memes, etc.
AK has some of those as well, but it is mostly on CN side that we don't get on TH-cam.
@@arthorias06 this, we barely get memes/animations that are not CN made for the Content Creation side of AK and people are acting like there's nothing to add to the content creation side of things
Yea yostar is terrible at marketing the game to the mass. There is barely any sponsorship. Barely any ads. And barely any event involving the community. Maybe it’s only in the Asian community but global usually gets nothing. The way it is, it’s just a niche game with a solid and stable community. The only TH-cam content I ever see about Arknights is guides. Lol
No more amiya pog😢
Vifer, for me the most reason that Global (English) has such problems is due the 6 months behind time. Due this so many go to Chinese Servers and there they get the fresh feeling.
Yeah, we will miss out the future foresight and the clears, but that's that. Thank you Vifer for addressing this and happy that you are with us!
How do people play so many gacha games? It either takes way too much money or way too much time.
Like I started AK a year late and it took me a lot of consistency and money to catch up with my friends who played from release. By now I have everything and am happy but it was a huge investment. I recently started playing AL but I am already considering dropping it because their events consume way too much time (on top of AK) and I am unwilling to pay too much into it. They grab for a lot of money, for dock space, gear space, pulls, skins.
So with all these games out and them being so popular and seemingly played by everyone in the sphere… how?!
Is it like a “Play the FOTM and move on when new FOTM arrives” kinda thing? If so then I could understand why I didn’t get it because that is antithetical to how I play games.
For me, I played Honkai impact for like 4years. Lots of memories and things I like, I stopped playing it completely because I'm not happy with the way developers are doing.
Genshin: I enjoyed it in its 1st year. Now the game feels boring mainly due to the non-rewarding ultimate grinding experience. I quit it for good. It is a good game in general but not for me anymore.
ZZZ seems big but as someone who has played HoYoverse games for years. I can already see the same formula in this game. I'm not gonna enjoy it.
I'm enjoying Arknights atm. I can really feel the quality of this game. Everything is well made and very casual friendly. The biggest reason, there is less powercreep. Even the earliest 6 stars are viable. Every character has value and it feels good getting every one of them.
Did you even watch the vid? This vid is about the state of Arknights content creation
@@Rezter He talked about ZZZ and Hoyoverse games. I'm just sharing my thoughts. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Ironically a wall of text incoming, so sorry for that. LOL
While they are ultimately different games, I really do hope that Endfield acts more as a continuation of the legacy that Arknights leaves behind and deserves recognition for--not that it's dying or anything, but that's kind of what it feels like it might turn into. Especially speaking from a content creator perspective--I focused mainly on Genshin content creation over on Twitter, and I really wish I could do the same for Arknights. But it's like you said. It just doesn't gain nearly as much traction even though the community itself is so passionate about it. I hope that changes with Endfield (and also the anime!), and I have high hopes for it since it feels like something that people could get into even if they haven't played Arknights before.
I also feel like... the formatting for Arknights in general leaves a lot to be desired in terms of content creating. People can make so many memes and videos about the gameplay itself, but when it comes down to the storytelling and lore aspects of it, it basically turns into a novel. In order for people to understand content that was created based on that, they would have to 1.) read aaaaaaaaaall of the text regarding that part of the lore and 2.) understand all of it. Which is a lot. LOL
It's also sad because the lore, in my opinion and probably many others', is one of the huge selling points of Arknights and what makes it such a great game. Many other games have storytelling that is so much less stale, and I'm sorry for saying that but that's just how it is. Barely anything moves in the dialogue scenes, there's no voice acting, barely any special effects, no animated cutscenes for huge story points (this is excluding the trailers and stuff), and just tons of text. Massive amounts of text. Waaaaaaaaay too much text.
Like for context btw I love the lore and DO spend time reading all of the story parts and dialogue and whatever for main story and events, but it's just SO MUCH text--which was also confirmed that multiple events have enough text to rival or surpass actual books. And that's why I'm hoping things like Endfield and the anime do a good job of making the storytelling more interesting while condensing the need for all the text and adding elements into the lore aspect that people can use to better understand everything. Because understanding the game easier from a third party perspective = easier to make content that people will understand and like.
Also Yostar needs to stop restricting literally everything. They're such a drag.
Yeah I simply don't have the time to read multiple essays worth of frankly overwrought writing between stages 😭 lone trail has been the only one that I've put up with and am actually loving because of the setting and themes etc. I really hope we get more of this quality in the future
What i would like to say is that content creation for tower defense games is quite tough to do and kinda dry and cut.There is only so much entertaining you can squeeze out of events,new stages and such.Besides Lore,Event and Operator guides along with tutorials for stages and gacha pulls there isn t much to do videos about.
Bros just getting ready for Endfield and ange 😭 inhales immense copium
Yostar could do more to hype up the limited events. Lonetrail has an amazing look, an amazing story (I like Rhine labs events), and those events generally help in keeping the game relevant. But only the people already playing know those are coming.
Having one major content creator leave, means there's an opening for new creators to come in and fill the gap.
I'm just sitting here, happy that the Tower Defense genre i grew up with thanks in part to playing flash games on Y8 got a non-Bloons video game popping off within the last decade.
I like how Vifer can speak non-stop like that
After his latest Arknights' videos where he basically said that he doesn't enjoy playing anymore it doesn't surprise me. His latest video was really fun to watch, so I'll probably will keep watching his videos, and honestly wish him the best.
for the gacha game it self by player base, AK honestly quite decent. as same as BA, Nikke, PGR, or the New Re:1999. for carrier as CC gacha game is quite unstable and i think its okay to change game. what Yosar dont do is support their CC, like Vifer said. Hoyo, on CC side is always reach out their CC. they have good intend to communicate, but dosent mean this was easy. you can see on dead week (1-2 week before live annouce program) they kinda strugle to what else you must stream so kinda in same situation but better boat.
for AK Enfield to canibal their AK player think they wont. but there is will part of player move on. because honestly playing AK. its like playing waiting game. "what happen in CN server its gonna happen in global so better wait" and this will keep repeat each half year. the differnt with HOYO game is they start on same time so there is much time to interact and learn each other from other community. make the game community more lively (both in positive and negative )
I don't know how I feel about this to be honest
on one side I can sense that he's just no longer into Arknights for the past couple videos, and so I'm glad that he's listening to himself
but on the other side, it makes me feel some way that I just can't explain. he's done very good, contributed to the Arknights community, and personally my gameplay quite a lot. I just wish that he would still make Arknights content with other content too, I don't understand why he would completely drop the game entirely
I don’t even play arknights anymore and still watch both of y’all’s vids
It's really sad to see Yii stop making Arknights videos but I'm happy he wants to broaden his video creation horizon.
I do think Endfield might make all the difference in terms of bringing people to the game as I feel the game will appeal to a wider audience as the game will have broader appeal
That sucks but hey atleast he still make video
Vifer, you're not going anywhere as long as there are still people you can scam. We know that, you know that. Stop acting like you have any other motive
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He can make "scam" content in other games to gain more views lol
what people think contributes to the growth of a game:
TH-cam content creation, Developers supporting the community, fresh gameplay
what actually contributes to the growth of a game:
hentai artists being intrigued by certain characters of that game
Yii is cool, I don't mind him doing AK videos or not, he's really cool.
Realistically as much as it sucks because I enjoyed the content. As long as my boy is happy I’ll continue to support. As in terms of the state of the game Arknights is the one game where I may stop to try other games but I’ll never leave. It’s the only game I play that requires me to think and I enjoy that about it.
It's a bummer to see Dreamy and now Yii bow out. There's still a lot of great creators, but I don't know anyone who provides overviews of new operators besides FrostByte262.