Punishing: Gray Raven
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Dataminers, Beta Testers, and Fan Translators: Leaks as Cultural Capital in Gacha Game Communities
This paper, an autoethnographic and netnographic study by Hyerin Shin, examines leaks, the unauthorized circulation of unreleased gacha game content, as a form of cultural capital within gacha game fan communities.
- Leaks of unreleased gacha content are framed as a widely accepted form of 'cheating' (in Mia Consalvo's sense) that players use to counter the fear of missing out (FOMO) fostered by gacha monetization.
- Leaks simultaneously resist and stratify: advance access to information elevates certain individuals into 'fan leader' roles and, in some cases, becomes commodified.
- The study combines an autoethnography of the author's work as an administrator and fan translator for the GRAY RAVENS fan site for Punishing: Gray Raven with a survey of Genshin Impact leak communities based on interviews with anonymous beta testers and dataminers.
Roguelike Elements in Mobile Games in China
The mobile gaming market in China has seen a surge in the use of "roguelike" as a marketing buzzword, often applied to games that lack the genre's defining characteristics of permadeath and procedural generation.
- Roguelite games in the Chinese iOS top-grossing 200 list have an average life expectancy of only three months, highlighting the difficulty of sustaining long-term monetization in the genre.
- While demand for roguelike-inspired gameplay remains high, many titles marketed as 'roguelike' in China lack the genre's core features of permadeath and procedural generation.
- Soul Knight, which entered the Chinese iOS top-grossing 200 in 2018, demonstrates that roguelites can achieve longevity by integrating permanent progression, synchronous co-op, and incentivized ads.
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