Nah imo it's good to shoot the shit here, gacha space on GAF doesn't seem to densely populated anyway and I have a feeling H:SR ain't big enough here for an OT - just a gut feeling tho, if you make the OT we shall see.
Well, the WuWa OT that was made by
Nankatsu
was basically just him and Pejo, with the occasional visit from PonyStation4, talking about the game for about 3-4 months. Then I picked up the game in late Nov of last year, and with version 2.0, it was picked up by other GAFers, and the OT became very lively.
For HSR, I already know that a bunch of people who don't frequent this gacha thread or the other gacha OTs, like Doom85, Mr. Moose, and ShaiKhulud1989, might be interested in discussing the game in a dedicated OT.
I think some of this is not as visible to you precisely because you are a new player. For those around since the start, this pattern is all too familiar and getting grating.
That's why I mentioned "Phainon game" in 2 patches, because EVERY mode will be Physical weakness, with fast attacking enemies (or enemies with follow-up attacks, etc) that is perfectly countered by Phainon, his kit, and his mechanics. Those people that don't pull Phainon will struggle with Yunli/Clara teams and some no-lifer on reddit will post a clear of the latest endgame modes and say "see you don't need Phainon". Thing is, 99% of the playerbase won't be dedicated or autistic enough to build Yunli and all the supports she will need to an acceptable level to do any of that, when you can just roll Phainon, slap a LC on him and hit Auto for similiar results.
You don't mind it yet because of new car smell, but you will, eventually.
Like I said, I get the frustrations, and I did acknowledge this in the post you partially quoted.
I know there are legitimate reasons to dislike its current trajectory due to all the things that have been mentioned about old units being left behind, shifting meta, HP inflation, etc., and some people also have issues with the writing as well, and that's perfectly fine.
Look, I understand that I'm in the honeymoon phase right now, so I don't have the full picture of how the endgame has evolved from day one until now. However, what you say is not something that will really change my mind about how I feel about the game, since it's neither the first nor the last gacha that's taken this path with shifting metas to make the new premium unit(s) must-pulls. It's never been important to me that I'm not able to clear all endgame content. Heck, I don't even do it right now in WuWa with ToA and WiWa, even though I have plenty of meta units and their sig weapons.
The endgame is just one small part of the overall package in a gacha, which to me is overshadowed by characters, world building, art direction, story, writing, music, and ofc good gameplay.
If you do this I will leave Neogaf.

There are not many players here who play Gacha games and believe us it doesn't matter in which topic you ask or write about HSR. I definitely won't write to you - "that this is not a topic for this game, so don't dare write here."


At one time I also wanted to make a topic for Infinity Nikki, but then I realized that there was no particular point in it.
I've actually seen a couple of Infinity Nikki players posting in random threads, so maybe there's interest in Nikki here on GAF as well.
But yeah, maybe you're right. I'll have to think some more about it before deciding whether or not to create an OT for HSR.