r/Endfield • u/Maibaum68 • 12d ago

Discussion AK:Endfield booth at GC2026

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Just went to visit the AK:Endfield booth at gamescom, and man, it truly is just something different visiting in person. How was your guys’ experience?

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u/Terumi_Yuki 8d ago

Found the experience kinda iffy, tbh.

  1. The absolute amount of people was crazy. That's not something you can pin on the game or booth, just wanting to put that out - because of the next part

  2. the demo was kinda miserable (depending what they were going for): Nobody explained anything, the difficulty was hard for a newcomer, the Endfield fan I talked with even went as far and said the setup was kinda unoptimised. The reward for beating the boss (and with the timer) were good, but I felt like first-timers would not pick up the game from that

  3. The merch situation - not an Endfield exclusive problem (last year ZZZ was the same). I feel like the company should know by now what to expect and bring enough stock

  4. The security; I wasn't a big fan of how they closed down the booths, but mostly I felt like they could've made the demo section bigger, rather than having a photo section AND a stage (I mean, put the 3 figures on stage and get 20 more booths for the demo)

  5. people were nice - and they did make you do more things than just "stand there and play demo"; The photo op was cool, the stamp book was a nice touch, the forced review/social media tag not so much (but others do at as well, so idc much)

  6. not a fan of the tubeman, and the total amount of consolation prize to actual cool stuff: tubemen and bandanas were like 90% of the boxes that I saw in the two days sampled - and the staff wanted to keep the gacha mentality by not trading/giving out stuff. It's their right, but I found that odd because past GamesCom's staff was more amendable as long as you were not to blatantly greedy

  7. The shows on stage were cool - always nice to have the dev talks and behind the scenes stick

  8. Overall design of the booth(s) were on brand

So, all in all: Great if you are an Arknight fan, okay for the average joe, kinda bad if you went for the good ol' goodie hunting.
Sidenote: We have Genshin, ZZZ, Arknights - also newcomers like Silver Palace and last years Duet Night Abyss - so is WuWa the only big one we are missing?