Arknights CN is EATING the EN server 

The fact that my enjoyment of the game nowadays revolves on the story being translated is also what kept me from being burned out, no matter the spoilers, no matter the 6 months gap, the story usually dont get spoiled as translation for it is limited, so by the time it comes out, I still have the hype from when it was revealed.

I REALLY do NOT care about the 6 months gap. It's honestly such a helpful thing in letting us prepare our pulls. It's seriously not a bad thing for EN and it's not like 1 year+ gap

Honestly couldn't care less about community hype over coming banners, I'm hyped enough knowing it's coming. I was over the roof getting my Texalter and spending lots of pulls on Penance knowing I was ready for it, same goes for Yato MH collab, then for Typhoon. Now knowing that coming characters are Arturia\Viviana, Degenbreaker and right after R6 collab as a (mostly)f2p I have time to prepare instead of regret over losing a chance to obtain R6 ops again xd

why are ppl acting like the ability to see 6 months into the future is a debuff :(

The biggest issue by far is the story getting spoiled, like it happened with LT and now Babel. It completely forced me off watching any of this CN info dumps. The story is ramping up to such a degree hitting an absolute peak in LT and now a new one with Babel and there are people posting the whole synopsis of it before I get to read it. Having to wait 6 months is super frustrating.

Honestly, if things on EN were sped up to the point that the servers became 1 month apart while eliminating dead weeks that would otherwise have no events (no reruns or no new events), i think we would have a good compromise. Of course, some of the mat drops and rewards would have to be bumped up a little during the catch up time to compensate the increasing speed of event drops. This is actually what another gacha game, Another Eden, did with their servers (increasing mat drops and rewards for servers in need of catching up) until all servers reached the same schedule only a few weeks ago.

My only problem with this argument is the unspoken hypocrisy behind it. What I mean is this: let's say, hypothetically, there was a magic lamp with a genie in it and someone made a wish that brought global current to CN. The next day RU-vid would be flooded with videos about how en players don't have time to save their pulls, can't make informed decisions about which operator to pull, etc... etc... People who complain are just going to complain, there is never going to be a perfect paradigm that ever satisfies them. The people who don't complain are that way not because they're in their perfect paradigm but because they adapt to the paradigm they're in. Apart from that though it's a fair concern, there are pros and cons to every situation. I just don't actually buy that you would ever be content if the opposite situation were true.

Tbh my hype for the characters can die with the 6 months gap, and sometimes it's not bad, it allow me to avoid pulling characters that i'll raise and never use. But my hype for the story and the lore never dies, i waited 6 long months for Lone Trail and i was still hyped and surprised by the story beyond my expectations

At first I thought it was about Gryphline possibly taking over the EN server. When it comes to this topic, I know there's no hype after 6 months, but I'll still get any character I want. When muelsyse appeared on global, I knew I would spend everything to get it. So I think it also depends on the person.

I wish Global caught up to CN.. or has a gap of at most 3 months.. The 6-7 months gap is like waiting for a home video release of a movie after it has been watched at "theaters". Just an opinion from a Dolphin.

And this is why i deliberately avoid literally any info from CN server and pretend it does not exist.

Global vs CN not just arknights always is worse off. CN have collaboration with real life things like restaurants, events and even art displays, advertising etc. Yet in EN, which encompasses a vary large times zone, they can't even have a stream where like 90% of people are working at the time of the stream. Just as an example, Gift codes, there are at least Dozen codes on CN but 1-2 for EN. People will engage more with things if given the opportunity but its too hard and expensive coordinate for en/Global players wide base. Even somethings as simple as copy right issues like for example CC3 music debacle. Still love arknighs, hope you do too.

Well I half agree to this but it really depends on person if I'm being honest. I for one looking forward to those said Six Months that are coming and 1 thing I'm thankful for the CN server is that I get to prepare since back then in my early days of AK I did not know that there's a limited banner and its harder to get them. Now that I know I can save up to pull for them. The Biggest reason why I don't get burnouts and stuff is I am a Lore guy, always reads the stories and connections. And Im actually happy that they don't translate the story since I can read it without getting spoiled nor the dialogue that actually connects from previous chapters or sidestories. In the end of the day it really depends on the person on how they take it.

I think taking to consideration people who cannot restrain themselves from watching a 4 min video, which is obviously a spoiler, is not worth. Have been playing AK for 3 years or so, never did i think that me watching a spoiler PV, trailer etc. is someones fault, i chose to watch, my fault, and same goes for everybody else.

this is me right now trying to avoid any spoilers of ch 14 or any PVs and trailer about that

I am sorry but this gap is a blessing, to me, nothing beats knowing when to save. Nowadays i pull for who i want and not sniping for meta, like Jessica Alter. Said gap helps a ton with getting who i want.

Yeah I’d love to catch up with CN, but if it doesn’t happen, not a huge deal.

I mean.... it's only 6 months. It could be worse. TW servers are 10 months behind CN and when they tried speedrunning through events to catch up a bit, everyone was telling them to stop. Or there's Fate Grand Order where the EN servers are 2 years behind JP. Punishing Gray Raven's EN servers are 1.5 years behind CN. etc. So I'd say we have it really decent on Global.

Well, this doesn’t affect me at all since I run a CN and a EN accounts. Since I started my EN account much earlier I use that to clear hard content, and play on CN to catch the hype.

I honestly dont care that there is a 6 month gap, but the HYPE is insane.

I feel very existential sometimes when I think there’s a 6 month gap between en and cn. That’s really what really matters for me is that I will lose 6 months of my entire life to see this event in en. Kinda terrifies me that time by to quickly (or slowly) I am kinda glad to not be playing on tw servers because that would be dreadful for me

Well for some end-game players what kind of character you pull might not matter that much since you already have an operator for every situation so it save to say that just pull characters for design since its not gonna effect their playing experience so much But for a beginner and an f2p 1 wrong pull could effect your progress to go forward, but if youre such a brilliant doctor then pulling for characters might not do anything to you And CN spoilers doesnt explain much about the lore or the stage it self therefore I always found myself watching stage/character analysis once it arrives in Global or the same stage clears with different approach always feels excited Just watching brilliant doctors out there is already entertaining enough for me

To me the foresight isn’t some insane advantage. As F2P you can’t summon on everything anyways and limited banners are always good to target. Being able to experience the hype at the same time would be so much better.

I would really like the EN server to catch up with the CN server, but that never happend... like we had several signs that the EN server would catch up (banners and events came out earlier than planned or the sequence changed).

It does really sound like you need to get on the CN server and maybe even drop Global. I know you probably spent a lot of time building up your global account, but in the long run it's still more worth it to play CN for you and start from the beginning. You literally have all the traits for someone to prefer CN over global: you don't read story so you don't care about the official story translation, you don't read enemy mechanics so you don't even care if it's in Chinese, you get hyped and excited along with the community about all the new and amazing content/operators/events, and will probably get you more videos and help your channel grow bigger. If I was in your shoes I wouldn't hesitate to start CN right now. As for me, I played FGO for 4 years which has a 2 YEAR gap so I'm more than happy with a 6 month gap. Aside from new operators, I know nothing about what's going on in CN. Heck I didn't even know DOS existed until it came to global a few days ago. I didn't know it's gonna be one of the hardest events ever, and I got completely surprised by it which was very enjoyable for me as I like the challenge. I also have no idea what going on in the story in CN so I'm always hyped for new story in global. In general I don't really get spoiled about anything so global always feel fresh to me, I'm having a blast.

I am a person that never played arknights but I am a huge fan of the lore and story. And I couldn't agree more, 6.months delay is completely unacceptable by any game standart and especially in 2024 when gatcha game market is this oversaturated. Also, since arknights doesn't even have huge amount of voice lines in the story, why it takes 6 months to do a translation? It doesn't even make sense when you can put everything in google translate and send to proofread to someone and be done in one day. The fact itself that now when we got babel which is possibly peak story content for this game and I am forced to watch some dude trying to translate everything on half-broken english just to understand the story is kinda dumb. No offense to the arknights en community but honestly I think it's a big copium from community when people say they don't care about delay and I don't understand why this community can't raise their voices and ask developers to catch up both translations, which is not that hard even for a small studio like hyperglyph. Anyway, hyped for endfield but no fucking way I am touching this game if I would have to wait 6 months longer than other people 😂

The general consensus in the comments and players in general is that the 6 month gap is a natural part of being a Global player and the normalization of saving pulls and understanding the unit with CN player showcases or GamePress's info on them. Heck, unique NPCs and leaked banners for games like Genshin/HSR helps people strategize when to pull for who. The 6 month gap even extends to modules with the foresight of investing in characters who got tweaked for more usage, from Passenger and Lin, to upcoming Fiametta module that greatly reduces her biggest drawback. And even without mods and for new characters, your take on losing interest in operators (Ho'olheyak and Mumu), due to their kit, people stayed hype for Texas Alter because of how strong she is and you'd have to be crazy not to pull. And with the continues release of banners, that's just gacha games in general and CN players don't really have time to save if they don't have reserves, so would of course have to be engaged, it's a business model.

I try not to touch spoilers, but by just using Reddit and browsing arknights RU-vid it is unavoidable that some things get spoiled, and I will never understand all the people that WANT the 6 month gap to exist, because 'planing' and 'foresight'. The gacha in Arknights feels like a chore to me. I always know 6 months in advance what I'm going to pull for (not meta just interest in the characters that get spoiled, and character spoilers are basically unavoidable), how much I'm willing to invest etc, so once the time comes it is just plain pulling the 6 months ago planned out number. At that point it is just a chore to sit through x number of pulls, while the excitement for anything new died months ago. The only thing that rarely gets spoiled is the story, but given that not all events are interesting to me or written well, that ends up being more of a band aid.

it happened to me with surtr. i started playing Arknights 4-5 months ago and recently I saw something about Surtr banner in a certain page an get really hyped for get her, but then I discovered that it was for the CN server and that there is a gap of 6 months between servers. (In the end, I get Surtr in Jessica alter banner somehow lol)

In the end, people typically choose to spoil themselves. When people were gushing about Near Light on CN for example, I basically thought things would be good when it came to EN, so I ignored the details. Sure enough I was very pleased while others were already acting like it wasn't a big deal because they overdosed on spoilers about the event and everything already. In the time since, various other events, like Chongyue's, were less amazing to me because of the effect of people all talking about CN spoilers, sure, but people who choose to go into the details of spoilers should not be surprised that they feel bored or uninterested: it's literally on them. One thing I do find extremely annoying is people often won't shut up about all the stuff happening on CN server, you see it on Reddit, in various youtube comments, even twitter etc. Social media is built on engagement so being hyped over the newest thing was inevitable, but if only we could find some way to avoid spoilers: if the algorithm knows you watch Arknights stuff, it'll thrust spoilers in your face when you didn't want them. I can't stand that personally lol But whatever, people who choose to get hyped over spoilers should be prepared for disappointment or losing that passion and enthusiasm when the event actually arrives in EN. And as other comments pointed out, people who complain will complain regardless. If the 6 month gap were over people would complain about having no opportunity to prepare. I actually like having dead weeks as I can put the game down and at least try to do other things with my free time. I know a lot of people hate that, since they think it's boring to have nothing to do, but it's also why I appreciate gachas like Neural Cloud who give ample breathing room lol In the end, yes AK EN murdered its own hype years ago by embracing the habit of overdosing on spoilers. Tragically this even holds true for things like music, let alone new upcoming units. Consequently, if people complain about being bored or not caring about what happens in EN because they spent all their energy and passion staring at what's on CN, they should just get a CN account and, should they continue to feel "cheated" or bored, they brought that negativity upon themselves. Play how you like, and personally I'd recommend looking at spoilers as sparingly as possible lol

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I can't... i can't play a version where i can't understand the words 😔

Muelseye and Lin are secret EX tiers. The former is Also EX tier because of the latter.

Imagine being a tw server player(that is 3 months behind en)

Yeah. Many people don't even seen anything wrong with spoilers to begin with, which only hurts other people's experience.

Seems like you are stepping into the Arknights content creation cycle. Do you willingly want to receive THE BACKLASH? 😊

Yep, I 100% agree. Server gap brings more harm than good. Thanks for the video, Dokutah ❤

true, i came back to arknights after 2 years to get virtuosa, now i wont even pull for her

I'm someone who prioritizes gameplay over story. The only times I read the stories to their entirety was from episodes 0-8 of story mode and Jessica Alter's event (since she is my favorite character story-wise). I usually do like the story and lore of games, and do like learning about different characters within those games, however I just can't with Arknights due to the sheer amount that it has- I have to stick with the short summaries given before and after levels to not lose entire afternoons just reading. That being said, being able to know what characters come and how good they are in advance is essential to me, and helps me manage my resources, and I am able to set limits on how many draws I do for each banner. The 6-7 month buffer being its current length actually recently helped me out, I wanted to get Hoederer due to how differently his survivability and damage worked in comparison to other operators, but then saw he would come back in "The Front That Was 4" banner, which also had Ines, an operator that when they originally released I hadn't started looking at guides yet, and once I did, regretted not trying to pull her (same with Yato alter- though I did just pull Qiubai (don't remember how much I invested in that), and I will say that she was worth obtaining, and I still use her today). That banner is perfect for me, and without knowing it in advance I would've spent my resources on a banner that yielded a lower chance of getting someone that I want. When it comes to spoilers, I do sympathize with those who do not like them. I am firmly against people who leak things like movie reveals, Nintendo Directs, and other similar things, since seeing an official reveal is so much more satisfying than some dataminer saying "oh yeah this thing is happening," especially since many times they don't properly place spoiler tags- especially for images that appear when you're just scrolling, for RU-vid being thumbnails. I was spoiled of a story development of something that I think was actually cool from a video thumbnail. Didn't even search for it or anything, it was on the home page. I know that not everyone is like me, but also know that not everyone is like you either (referring to 1:58). I just feel like if there was a better way to filter the information we received in regards to the game and its various aspects things would be a lot better

It has it's own pros and cons but i think the 6 month gaps is a blessing more than a curse.

If people want to play without being spoiled then play the og server. If those people reject that idea because they dont understand the language then they should blame their own stupidity ( I mean many ppl can still play the game even without understand the language). And also I doubt many of those people can clear stages on their own, many of them need guide (aka Kyostinv/Oyuuki etc) to clear every stages btw 😏

The gap helps me plan out. Also the hype for stuff literally never runs out because I don’t burn out due to being busy with an electrical engineering degree (god fucking help me). Being busy with school is so helpful because I get my fulfillment out of just afking and doing small things here and there crushing an event here and there

Eh. I kinda don't care. I know that to avoid and Im still hyped for the events even if they come 6 months late.

Sees good character design, pulls.

Your profile picture definitely fit you

Yeah man exactly For example i got hyped for sho (nian sibling) at the time of the event in cn But now ... I kinda not interested in it ... 6 months is pretty big gap between cn and en Take for example punishing gray raven The gap between cn and en is more than a year (year and half) and that's one of the reasons why pgr global is struggling .... There's one solution that may solve this problem Pushing the en events at a higher speed without or less breaks will close this big gap (and this will create more problems bcuz of the upcoming limited banners) But we know hypergryph wouldn't do this One thing i did to almost keep my hype for the upcoming charecters is just ignore them (which is kinda hard cuz u always see them in youtube facebook X ...)

This video is like the storytelling of Arknights. After you watch the whole thing, you get little to no content. Wth do you mean by "eating", the 6 months gap was there from the very beginning. And not only Global has that gap, all the other servers have.

Meh.. 6 months is much better than 2 year gap on fgo.

From players' perspective, I would say the gap actually has more pros than cons. Especially for casual players. Each to their own I suppose. But, I do agree with the hype part. It killed EN content creators more than players since the excitement is already 6 months ago.

I have no reason to hate this 6 months gap. I play this game since day 1 and knowing the future really help me a lot. I can plan for charactor i want to pull. Burn out for waiting them ? That not gonna happen to me.

It's all compensates with possibility to plan my pulls. Otherwise it would be much more stressful experience for me.

Funny is i know your pain. Back then your argument was correct since skin ticket existed making global has more engaged. Now? Even if global EOS, sorry to say i won't go to CN since first thing, we all know how evil HG making content for newbie generally and second how bad HG making operator in basic i mean what kind of juggernaut can only heal itself if someone died when it block it.... You aren't centurion my guy😂

Then Don't watch CN Spoilers it's easy

TW server that is 11 months behind CN server : 💀 And global player have the luxury of not being able to read Chinese to not get spoil that esaily as long as you ain't looking for translation and stuff Beside, having a six months delay helps f2p to plan/save up for pulls And TBN there ain't much people making spoiler as well, I watches AK content on Bilibili daily and I didn't got spoiled too hard because they are so out of context most of the time. And people usually have the decency to not spoil major plot points anyways. The six month lag isn't that big of a deal.

nah bro I'm not alone on the 6 months been a bless, the only one complaining are gacha addicts, that just want to pull for sake of pull shit, even I look the spoilers, new characters, new mechanics for the events, I'm still happy with the gobal sever been 6 months behind, not just bc I know which banners to skip, but aslo which operator in my roster is useful in the future, so I can farm materials and don't feel I wasted them, the only complain I have is with yostar making a mess with the events calendar, that they start with the Dorothy event

Bro this 6 months gap is the sole reason I’m able to plan ahead for high/max risk cc, skip banners and get who I want. I don’t play CN cause I don’t wanna make an account on Bilibili, and also because it’s a big gamble. Only big EN content creators like Kyo, Sciel, Pard talk about CN news or do CN streams. Most EN content creators just whine about hard gamemodes and events (that got fixed in CN). I know I’m repeating myself but this gap is the best thing that would could’ve asked for

Let the dalaos break their brain chasing the cutting edge tech in Arknights CN. Us EN hobos can just enjoy the fruits of their.labkur and go "Thanks for Beta Testing the game modes and giving us an advance notice on who to pull and who to build and all that! And in terms of story...so we catch up to the story and now what? We already don't talk to Arknight CN about anything so we don't really benefit in being ip ti daye with the speculations. Hey remember when Lone Trail was a weird Rhine Labs event in Arknight CN and there was meaningless specula about demons and outer beings and whatnot. Then Lone Trail gets released for EN and at the same time Arknights Endfield beta testing happened. Which revealed that the two are connected in some ways. So all those months speculating in CN got wiped out and everyone focused on what IS4 meant instead. It was fun. I treat AK whiners the same way I treat twitter; see what they're whining about, realise it's stupid and ignore them.

"But you're not everyone." The same applies to you. "Why do you think the CN server is much bigger than the EN server?" This is the case with basically every gacha game regardless of whether or not the game has a time gap in the content, CN and JP always outperform EN. The same can be seen very clearly in games where content is released globally like Genshin or GBF. The kind of burnout you're describing, where the hype dies too quickly, is typically blamed on the time gap in games that have it. But in my experience playing games without a gap, plenty of people feel it too on games where the release window is closer or simultaneous. Hype dies quickly if novelty is all it has going for it.

Sometimes I'll try to avoid videos about upcoming content, but those videos are so prolific. There's a lot of benefits for planning ahead too. It's hard to find an appropriate compromise.

still idk how EN AK would "fix" this even if they want to. We can rush through it but of course, people have only a limited amount of brains per day. If some newbie unlucky enough to join during the rush phase, they gonna be overwhelmed So yea it is what it is.

I actually love & hate the 6 months gap betweeen each Server. I love it because I can see what the operator does & like "hmm is it worth it to pull this operator?". Happened in Chongyue & Joint Operation (CC 12) banner But I hate it too, because 6 months waiting for the update feels like a nightmare. I've been waiting for this 4,5 Anniversary banner to comes out & holy hell my day has not been the same since it was announced. I feel bored, burn out, even though I'm still new to the game The main fact or reason why every event feels weak in Global, is because of how lame is it. We already knew the pattern of the event, it has been the same for past few years. Beside, if there is new problem, we can just copy what people on CN server does! In DoS we have here, alot of people already beat S-3 with guides, while in CN server A-3 only have been beaten at 2nd day of the event

How does it hurt Arknights EN with 5/6 months gap when FGO has 2 years and Dokkan battle has also like 5/6 months. it doesn't hurt other gacha games so why Arknights? explain please instead of just bad talking the gap.

People are considering leaving because CN character hype drops in EN after 6 months. I am considering leaving because CN hasn't released a new furry operator in over 2 years. We are not the same.

Just a couple sec after the vid start im already laughing. What a hypocrite lol Dude complain on "insert broken operator", " i play with 5* " blabla on his other vid and replies on the comments yet as you can see his team lol You do you yeah ? What a bs We do losing content creator but we don't need a hypocrite y'know Careful you might end up with a controversy, what you doing is attracting it

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We're eating deadlines Especially the Free to play players HG try to make us spend our resources on Ines and Qiubai banners so we won't be ready for Virtuosa

I absolutely love the 6 monthes gap!!!. It allowed me to plan my pulls and save up for who i want, especially when i can only afford the monthly card. And definitely not me checking the cn events wiki everyday for skins and event reminder😅😅😅 But i do want to say that i’ve been playing everyday for 3 years, and i just maxed level my account a few weeks ago. I also play other gacha games too and I’m aware of burnout effect. That’s why i rarely played main story, just to leave some excitement and curiosity for the future, and mainly played events, but i follow spoilers for the storyline, it’s the stages itself that i want to preserve, and also as a contingency pulls for the future.

You have a points but I still hate poosies complaining about spoilers.

Ah, been a while since we had Tectone. I guess Tectone 2 is already here. Good luck bro, looking forward to whatever kind of circus you cook up, seeing all your videos. (Pro tip, never a good idea to make "what character you hate" videos even if it was satire, that shit don't fly well in media)

who gives a shit , maybe you shouldnt look into it so much

As a f2p, I don't mind a gap of 6 months at all, I can plan my savings better and change my mind whether I will actually pull for someone or not. I may be one of the few, but I also don't mind if some events get delayed on global, especially after me going broke after limited or standard banner with awful rates. And having a Dory fish memory, I'll be excited again when these 6 months pass