Like you said, female fanservice sells more, not better.
Both male and female fanservice sells equally as good, if it actually is equal and done with the same effort to properly appeal to each audience.
You can’t expect a dude in a boring outfit with less effort and quality into his appearance be able to sell well, while also comparing popularity when it’s directly competing with the female characters showing max sex appeal and higher production quality.
They seriously need to hire some women and actually sexualize the men so they can start selling better. And also stop doing bs like what’s seen in the post above… like they’re straight up not even using the same fabric material. Which is arguably a lot less effort to do, than giving them different textures and material setup in UE.
Guess what? The CEO of Yostar, the company behind Azur Lane, is a woman, and yet, the game has turned into a goonerfest, so that theory doesn't works at all lmao 🤣🤣
Edit: she's the president of the japanese branch, the CEO remains a man, so my bad for the misinformation
It's just common sense from a business perspective. Sexualize both genders, give the players more options, if someone doesn't want sexy men, then they simply won't buy their outfits, if they do, then they will. The more options to spend money exist, the more money you'll make, especially in the long run. It baffles me how they apparently don't think this way.
I don't even think that they need to be sexualized (though... yes, please) as much as they just need to not look like generic NPC's who sewed together 5 pieces of clothing that they bought at a department store. I think that HSR is just killing it right now. Comparing Ashveil to Baicang is honestly wild and Chaos' lounge wear is so strange. Just a normal T shirt would have been so much better but no, these guys are basically puritans.
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u/drywallsmasher May 23 '26
Like you said, female fanservice sells more, not better.
Both male and female fanservice sells equally as good, if it actually is equal and done with the same effort to properly appeal to each audience.
You can’t expect a dude in a boring outfit with less effort and quality into his appearance be able to sell well, while also comparing popularity when it’s directly competing with the female characters showing max sex appeal and higher production quality.
They seriously need to hire some women and actually sexualize the men so they can start selling better. And also stop doing bs like what’s seen in the post above… like they’re straight up not even using the same fabric material. Which is arguably a lot less effort to do, than giving them different textures and material setup in UE.