@Faruko

Wow, triggered much? I feel like I shouldn't have used the word "hardcore" as it seems to be a trigger-word for you and brought out some kind of insecurity. My post was never about hardcores or casuals, you took that one word and made a big, pointless spiel about it. People like you are exactly why I refrained from posting anything negative about the game in the past, because I knew it'd trigger some insecure gamer out there who would take my distaste for a mobile game as some kind of personal attack. I mean, seriously, one comment about being a hardcore fan was enough to set you off? The part that makes you sound especially petty is "I'm happy that hardcores are sad". Really? REALLY? There was nothing in my post that was mean-spirited towards new or casual fans, so I don't get that level of spitefulness at all. You're a real charming person.

But yeah, congrats on speaking like someone truly ignorant about the franchise. It was ALWAYS a fundamental pillar for Nintendo, why do you think Marth and Roy appeared in Melee? The series was always relevant and successful in Japan, the series didn't come into the west until the 7th game in the franchise. Even Final Fantasy had more of a presence outside of Japan. Once the series DID come to the west, it enjoyed poor to non-existent marketing. Despite that, those "hardcore fans" you claim are such a minority managed to keep the series afloat for 13 games.

Besides, both hardcore fans and new fans bought Awakening and Fates, and those were the games that truly brought FE back from the brink and helped make them mainstream. Heroes is just a quick cash grab that piles on fanservice and pay to win mechanics and at times, deliberately contradicts or poorly represents the characters. Besides that, hardcore FE fans or not, a LOT of gamers are going to dislike it simply on the grounds it's a gacha game. Gamers haven't yet come around to the idea of paying for lootboxes and such, even if Heroes is relatively generous. To a lot of gamers, the skill required to play is replaced by gambling mechanics or how much someone is willing to spend. You could even argue it plays on people with obsession complexes, but I digress. None of that really applies to me, just pointing out that people disliking Heroes go way beyond being "hardcore" or not.

A lot of people don't like Heroes. Deal with it. It's called having opinions. Even the people who DO like it concede that it's not as good as an actual FE title, and that's what has me concerned. If Nintendo is making mad bank on Heroes, what incentive do they have to work on real FE games? What if they shift focus from actual FE to Heroes? I doubt it'd happen, but with some of the decisions they've made lately, it wouldn't surprise me. Since you yourself stated that "as long as they keep releasing full games", that implies you wouldn't want Nintendo to shift too much focus on this whole gacha thing either, so I'm a little confused as to why you're even trying to @ me, other than the fact I used the word "hardcore".