TBF I’ve heard many excuses first it was “KT has no fans” to “DOA isn’t popular” to “nobody knows what DOA is.”
Now that it’s beating virtually every fighting game out there now it’s “it’s a gacha game” and the previous insults and excuses have been dismissed.
There are many fighters that go F2P or are DEEPLY discounted and there are many failed gacha games that are free that do not move the needle.
More people are being exposed to this and playing this, and the haters of it aren’t getting anywhere and giving up.
I mean, this isn't a fighting game though. I guess DOA had to stop being DOA in order to succeed? Because I don't even see this one as a spinoff at this point, I find it hard to consider it a DOA game at all.
As we know, DOA5 and 6 had Core Fighters which was FTP, but that wasn't enough to do what this game has been doing. Maybe if they had added gacha to Core Fighters somehow it would have see similar numbers to this.
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