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by lilyball 699 days ago
At some point, adding mechanics like that turns people off from the game. Those things are good for games that have limited shelf life and want to get people to dump money into it while the game is popular, but things like leaderboards actually get people to quit playing once they realize that they can't get ever get on it because too many other people are willing to pay more. miHoYo games are intended to get people playing for a long time rather than trying to milk a group of players for a month or two and then moving on.