User blog comment:Vangui/The end of Nubee? The end of Valkyrie Crusade?/@comment-27040063-20151212180819

I don’t follow any of Nubee’s other games so I was actually unaware that most of them are closing soon before reading this post. I would agree that it seems worrisome and perhaps, this explains why it’s felt like they’ve been trying to push us to spend lately with the time limits on things like bonus areas and EH.

My interest has been down a bit lately because of that and feeling like it’s more hassle to accomplish some of the same things as before. I like to do EH for the awakening materials and to collect the old WG cards but having such a limited time to do it makes it feel like I’m under a tight deadline and less fun for me. I do get the cards that I want in the end plus lots of extras for medals but it just feels more stressful when it’s “I have to get them within these 4 days.” versus before when it was “Oh, I have 2 weeks to get them. Plenty of time.”

I do spend a little on this game (averages out to ~$40 a month) but I hate pushy salespeople and lately Nubee has felt a bit like that to me and I feel somewhat less inclined to spend. (Although I do feel a bit more favorable towards them now with the Christmas event.) I’d rather be giving them money for little extras that I think are fun (I’m tempted to get some of the jewel decorations currently on sale even if they have no real use) than feeling like I need to in order to collect what are supposed to be free cards (I mean just stuff like WG AWs, not the ranking rewards).

I also have to wonder how many people actually play this game on a regular basis and if it’s enough to sustain the game. Checking on a low level secondary account on Bluestacks that I rarely use, that account has an ending rank of 19,308 with 184,462 points for Gilgamesh’s event from 43 AW plus 9 FAW that I sent over to my main account. The ranking prizes go down to 1000 friendship points for 25,000-50,000 but looking at those numbers, I wonder a bit if there are even 50,000 players. And presumably, only a small fraction spends.