Mahjong Soul: Click tiles with anime girls!

I can understand being vigilant after the GFL2 drama....

But a collab isn't that big. And its a collab, not canon.

If they put Roon is Baldur's gate 3, or Nier Automata, I wouldn't consider it canon.

But I would make a playable Hans and use Roon's cannons to 1 shot kill all dragons lol.

If they put the BA characters in as some npcs wife, sure that would be a bit too much, but these players could just get their waifu twice.

The whole GFL2 problem was that it was canon, and that the player got abandoned in the story by the harem.

This not only made the coomers mad, but even those that just liked their team. Its like your best friend leaving you without a care in the world.
 
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This not only made the coomers mad, but even those that just liked their team. Its like your best friend leaving you without a care in the world.
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Gacha girls offer nerds an escape from reality. Lonely, unsocialized guys can bond to idealized characters that are unattainable (or illegal) in the real world. This creates parasocial oddity.

In this case, Mahjong Soul does not have a teacher/student dynamic between player and character. Instead, the relationship is kept vague, if flirtatious, so the girl can be a mock girlfriend, valet, or avatar. Not only that, it has male characters in the mix. Somehow, this triggers them.

Except these characters in that game are so soft, that they barely qualify as male:
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I've played this game a lot. Meeting up with friends and laying the tiles was usually the highpoint of the week for a while.

It's complicated and I would describe it best as "autistic poker" in that you similarly gather hands of ranking value from a randomized deck (or "walls" in this game), but there's no gain in bluffing or calling or intimidating your opponent. It's all about the numbers. The rules are also significantly more complicated, playing it for years I still need the sheet on hand for seeing which yakus I have available in some circumstances.

Mahjong Soul is by far the best online version I've tried. There was a chinese version for iOS that I found slightly better on mobile but then that was the chinese competition variant and not riichi. The anime girls aesthetic is cringy and I cannot imagine anyone being drawn to this because of it, everyone I've ever spoken to who has tried it agree that it's the best engine for it but could do without the anime girls, but at least you can play with the sound off. Would be nice if there was a low-res minimalist version.
 
How can you turn a simple board game into something this gay? Oh right, Anime
Even straight up coomer shit would have been better, at least I would know what I am looking at more than half the time.
 
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Gacha girls offer nerds an escape from reality. Lonely, unsocialized guys can bond to idealized characters that are unattainable (or illegal) in the real world. This creates parasocial oddity.

In this case, Mahjong Soul does not have a teacher/student dynamic between player and character. Instead, the relationship is kept vague, if flirtatious, so the girl can be a mock girlfriend, valet, or avatar. Not only that, it has male characters in the mix. Somehow, this triggers them.

Except these characters in that game are so soft, that they barely qualify as male:
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There is more to it. Gacha anime girls can be tailored for tastes that go beyond simply supermodel/loli as they are relatively cheap to make, and AI text to voice and such will make it even cheaper.

These girls can have personalities, no matter how shallow, that are 1 in a million in real life. Even the chuds in real life go "omg tomboy!" . Most real life marriage was for convenience in old times, and not out of finding your soulmate who mirrors you perfectly, but finding someone of the opposite sex to reliably have as a child raising partner.

Now, with feminism having put that part down, the value of good companions rose and there aren't enough real life gamer tomboy lets say train autists for every train autist to find.

The male characters are there for asian women, and they like them soft and girly. Yaoi husbanderinos, its like a boyfriend who likes cute makeup as much as you! No stubble, no hairy arms, no beer gut, only glamour.

Asian men also have more men than women, so for them, getting a real girl is even harder.

Korea, China, Japan all have this issue of too much work hours, not enough women.

I could explain why the GFL2 drama was so the perfect shitstorm, but it got all documented in that game's thread.
 
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Azur Lane for instance has a tiara system for that Idol Master collab and the characters from SSSS Gridman don't have any real romantic feelings, either.
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The Idol Master collaboration was a shitshow almost from the very beginning and the single worst collaboration Azur Lane had. The normal bond system was replaced as demanded by the Idol Master IP owner. Amongst other things as demanded to keep the Japanese IM tards from possibly losing their tard shit and/or worse.

For the SSSS Gridman collabs it was more about big stompy robots stomping things, Roon being Roon and Purifier/Purity going completely ham while chewing the scenery. Even then the bond system wasn't changed at all cause fans of each franchise both it is just a collab.

Edit: Azur Lane universe there is other males as in half of human population. It just for story purposes, the player don't even see them on screen except for one. Not to be sexist, the player also don't even see most of the women except for a very few on screen.
 
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The Idol Master collaboration was a shitshow almost from the very beginning and the single worst collaboration Azur Lane had. The normal bond system was replaced as demanded by the Idol Master IP owner. Amongst other things as demanded to keep the Japanese IM tards from possibly losing their tard shit and/or worse.
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Japan has an insane idea of what idols should be. Then again we have the other extreme, so... eh. Nobody wins that one.
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For the SSSS Gridman collabs it was more about big stompy robots stomping things, Roon being Roon and Purifier/Purity going completely ham while chewing the scenery. Even then the bond system wasn't changed at all cause fans of each franchise both it is just a collab.
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Yeah, but for the specific problem with the Blue Archive collab in Mahjong Soul it's that they think there will be romantic entanglement with the bonding system. I haven't really noticed much of that from regular characters in the game if clips are anything to go by. In Azur Lane when you boost the Gridman girls to Love or Pledged the dialogue is like "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER" stuff. There's maybe one or two that kind of enters the realm of romantic feelings. Like most of the collab characters end up being, now that I think about it. I think the DoA one was the one that had the most interested in Shikikan, but I digress. As for the event itself, yeah it's all about DIGGING GIANT ROBOTS.

Thread: Has the drama died and the Chinese moved on to something else or is it still going?
 
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Chicks dig giant robots, so Roon did nothing wrong.

Also Purity was funny. I didn't mind the event, and I am totally fine with the best friends part.

AL also had some Chinese vtuber collab planned, but scrapped it after a guy at the vtuber agency went: "Oh cool I wanna be in Azure Lane" and autism erupted. He likely didn't even know what game it was, or would want to cross-dress up as navy themed girl :tomgirl:.

So AL is trying to keep the drama out.
 
These are the anime schoolgirls doing the crossover. I guess it means something if you like the original game. The halos over their heads stops bullets, which I guess explains cartoon violence where no one gets hurt. But I'm not in the core audience Yostar seeks to engage.

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Collecting one of these girls and doing the full bond can cost a few hundred dollars,
 
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The brown haired one looks cute, but a few hundred dollars? That's excessive. That's like a few dozen or more premium tiddy bounce AL skins.
 
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AL also had some Chinese vtuber collab planned, but scrapped it after a guy at the vtuber agency went: "Oh cool I wanna be in Azure Lane" and autism erupted. He likely didn't even know what game it was, or would want to cross-dress up as navy themed girl :tomgirl:.
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Few years ago Manjuu did had well known Japanese cross dresser do a live action AL promo with them, with him cosplaying as Enterprise. In addition to having no issues with male fans cosplaying as the shipgirls in their fan cosplay contests. Albeit with the major caveat of what goes on outside of the actual AL game/universe stays out.
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So AL is trying to keep the drama out.
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With AL having a permanent spot of the CCP censors' naughty list, Manjuu definitely doesn't want more drama from anybody.
 
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Astolfoprise, with a big surprise torpedo!

Yeah they got hit with the CCP stick hard.
 
So, the Blue Archive collaboration started. Time for the marks ("Jyanshi Sama") to spend hundreds on gacha to get static images of schoolgirls with guns.

Some otaku in Japan created a tournament solely for farming points in the bonus game. (#320813 on all servers) It got noticed, and soon, hundreds of people jammed the lobby to play. This unexpected rush crashed the MJS tournament system. It's still down as I write this.
 
Mahjong Soul's main competition in English is Riichi City. It is smaller and similar, except the waifus are more openly sexual.
Riichi City's lead developer is known as Frank. He'd inflicting his interest in
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dressing like a girl onto the user base:

✨About Cross-Dressing✨

My personal biggest breakthrough last year was completing my first-ever cross-dressing photoshoot.

The idea started during conversations in group chats with Captains, where everyone kept encouraging me (strangely) to try cross-dressing. At first, I wasn't even considering it, but when you keep hearing, "You should do it!" you might find your mindset shifting over time. Also, Riichi City is still struggling to gain significant attention. As the producer, if I can help draw more eyes to the game through my efforts, as long as it's legal and appropriate, I'm willing to give it a shot.

The decision to go through with the photoshoot was solidified when we noticed our official website's revenue wasn't performing well compared to other platforms. Currently, Apple and Google each charge commissions that can go as high as 35%, Steam's fees approach 40%. However, our official website's commission is only about 8%. This means that the same payment from Captains results in significantly higher revenue for us if done through the website. With encouragement from the website product manager, I finally made up my mind to give it a shot.

The cross-dressing photoshoot took place at a shop in Tokyo named: 女装サロン [Crossdressing Salon] RAAR
Address: 60A, Yaesu Building, 5-18-12 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Feel free to visit if you are interested! The staff there were incredibly nice, and the photographer was very patient, especially since it was my first time. The results turned out quite well. (She even asked if she could use my photos on their Instagram homepage as an advertisement, but I declined—too embarrassing!)

Though the process was tough, the event exceeded expectations. Our official website's top-up revenue increased by 80% that month! Thank you, Captains, but I must say, you all seem a bit too into my cross-dressing! Oh, don't worry—there are two more outfits from the shoot waiting to be revealed. To track the cross-dressing progress, visit:https://www.riichicitystore.com/frank

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Been actively playing this game for the last few months as well as looking into other Riichi Mahjong games from the retro eras.
Can't say I ever expected to get really into Mahjong but I've spent enough time to rank into Expert 1 (I was at 2 before deranking after a string of losses after tilt-queueing).

I don't notice many people acknowledge it outside of the mahjong general on /vg/, but I've always had random inconsistency when it came to disconnects happening mid match. It was mostly prevalent on the Steam client which was obnoxious since that's how I would usually play the game, but I've stuck with the browser client just because I can restart the game much faster and not lose as much thinking time than restarting the Steam client. I was told this issue persisted after the Blue Archive collab and I've only just recently seen mild improvement but the connection seems a tad bit more erratic.
 
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