Fans turned away from Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds

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In March, the developer Netmarble revealed Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds – New F2P RPG for PC and Mobile. Although it was well received when it was first announced, Cross Worlds had an unsuccessful debut. Fans expected a traditional RPG, but what they received was a gacha game and worse, gacha revolving around electronic money. Players can exchange ingame items for in-game tokens. The above tokens can be traded for the developer’s own cryptocurrency Marblexand can then be exchanged for other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

It’s a complicated trading system, but this element of the game doesn’t seem to have enough depth. In a post on the gachagaming subreddit, user Tezoze complains about the sheer amount of activity related to Territe – main currency in the game. Almost everything in the game now requires currency, but with Marblex, players can buy “game-breaking things”.
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“It looks like you can buy the best pet in the game right from the store,” says Tezoze. The use of cryptocurrency eliminates the need to pay to unlock things through traditional gacha mechanics and the only way to earn this coin without spending money is through PvP – a capital mode was seriously out of balance with the monetary system. As a result, even the “whales” are not interested in interacting with the system simply because they have nothing to do when they have the best items.

Cross Worlds is Netmarble’s first foray into crypto and NFTwhich may partly explain the new approach, but that’s unlikely to assuage fans’ frustration.
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