RNG just trolled me so hard. Gathered up most of the tickets from the Noct co-op event so figured I'd try my luck on Shantotto's banner. Five tickets in, I get a gold.....and it's Rem's 15cp. Two tickets later, another gold....another Rem 15cp. Figured luck was not on my side with this banner, so back to Noct's. 10 tickets in, another gold....and yet another Rem 15cp for good measure, AHHHHHH. (I've had her 15cp MLB for months now). Saving the rest after that.
That was me as well in the last Terra banner in her awakening, spent almost all my gems only to get random 15 CPs.
Same happened with Cloud and Shantotto Ex, terrible pulls, but I got some decent weapons for the other characters.
@changing subject... kinda...
BTW, I wanted to ask you people something.
Normally I didn't care so much about terrible pulls because I had a decent amount of gems and a lot of Hard mode quests yet to do.
I played this game since launch, my playtime in average is 1 hour daily, and I think it's a pretty decent mobile game.
But something happened with me this week I'm bit concerned about this game.
In the last updates we got characters awakenings and the introduction of EX skills. Some characters are like beasts now (Meteorain from Cloud anyone?), and this is really cool.
I never have played F2P games before, but I think I finally understood the risks and prejudice this kind of game can bring, and this happened with Noctis launch.
I got his 15 and 35 CP weapons with pulls using gems, and got decent equipments to other characters as well. But somehow I REALLY wanted his EX, I don't know why I got the urge to get. I used my remaining gems and nothing, did Hard Mode from Chapter 1-6 and nothing.
So finally, I did it... I bought the first microtransaction in this game, used the gems in less than a minute only to get horrible pulls again, I was baffled with this result, but after spending the money in seconds I know that I was entering in a danger territory, because I really wanted to spend more money to get more gems.
After noticing this, I entered in Play Store and removed the credit card from payment methods as soon as possible.
I really want to know if anyone here had a similar experience with this game. Because I like this game a lot and noticed the next updates will have a lot of character banners. I feel like the gacha aspect will skyrocket from now and will be hard to continue to be a F2P game because we will get amazing characters from FF series and EX weapons are a huge deal in the game now.
So, only to know to create a parameter, how frequently people here spend money in this game? Once a month? When triggered like me? (lol) Never? I'll try to verify in gamefaqs as well later.
After this incident I viewed a thread here in ERA that talk about predatory mechanisms in micro transactions. It opened my eyes. (link below).
https://www.resetera.com/threads/let's-listen-to-a-monetization-expert-the-top-f2p-monetization-tricks.84162/unread
BTW, I plan to continue playing the game because I feel the game have a soul behind the cash grab facade and have fair RNG (because in the end I used some of the draw tickets I got in some missions and I got Noctis EX weapon, happy ending I think... for now...).
/Blog ends