No matter how much investment you put in this game, you are always gated, either date or purple powder or experience or pull tickets. This is how this game is designed to do so you always feel like there’s a goal you have to achieve. My problem is actually they are trying to limit the gap between f2p and p2w players. I just wanna be brutally honest that whales or hard core players put money and time into the game or push as hard as they could is to make them feel superior in terms of progress. I don’t see the reason why the dev wants to destroy this. For example, I deficit pushing, in order to get more experience or resources just to have that 10 level advantage over people who don’t. But no, now i only have 2 level advantage over people who don’t push now. (After we reach level 500, every 10 level only shows 2 in dream realm). Then what’s the point I push so hard XD.
Hey I always do my dailys and I play since 1 week after release and the only things in my opinion worth buying are the battle passes and the growth bundles when you push afk stages. But as you stated in your Video the main problem is that the game is focused on Whales (people who spend alot of money in gacha games).
hm well as f2p it might be a good idea to save some of your essence for when you're able to get another character to m+, you seem at least close with some of them.
@@remnants9974 thankfully I have one or two so I would say maybe a week of dream realm fragments should have me there for one more, but the way it's been splitting is been unfortunately quite even across 10 or so characters so it's ben slowww
How old is this account? I'm sorry, but I feel like you did something "wrong" with this account, because when I was around day 35 I had like 7 m+ characters as F2P. Yes I did play a lot every day, but I think that is the "price" you have to pay as f2p if you want to be "competitive" (you won't be in top 20 DR and top 5 arena, but top 100/50 DR is doable and top 20 in arena). Ofc it's different / valid question if the game should work that way. You can't save resources early on, you just spend everything to boost your rankings in the different game modes and to get into good guild -> you use dream fragments to buy Odie/Marilee to boost you DR rankings = dream fragment income. Now that my account is 60 days old, I'm starting to save diamonds, but I have 16 m+/s+ characters to work with.
I mean I would argue that the game's mechanics are terrible if you even have to ask if someone screwed up their account or not. That shouldn't be a topic at all.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 I kind of agree with you on that, but it's a bit difficult topic to gage without knowing more about the account and what you want out of the game. First of all, it's a gacha game at it's core and that means, that you wont be top without paying (yes that sucks, but that's how these games work). If you play it here and there for the story and progress, not sure what there is to really complain about. IF you wanna be competetive as a f2p player you have to play daily and do most of the available content -> You can argue that this is bad design, but yeh that's about it. Ofc I can just say "I don't have enough anything to be competitive" and skip most of the content / save my resources, but is that then a valid argument?
It's a solid question, but I do have 42 days currently. I use my dream realm fragments just as you do, filling the costs of ascension which has gotten about 5 characters to mythic, but I havent been as lucky with pulls, aside from a casadee which did help for pre season dream realm. What I ask you to think about is how is anyone without all this foresight to think about direct end game supposed to play this game and know all of this right at the beginning? Cause I'll admit you're not the first to say that you have a semi STACKED account and go "why account bad?"
@@ShawnSetGO Yeh I understand your point about not having the foresight of endgame and it's a valid point. It's clear that they want people to spend money on the game and that's why they give you limited resources, so if you don't spend them "optimally" as f2p that will hurt your account. I'm fairly competitive person in general, so how I approach games like this is that I look up information on UA-cam and I even made a second account after playing a while with my first one to do things better. I understand that is not for everyone. In general I think they made the S1 fights more difficult and your progress slower, because they don't have as much content, so they are trying to slow players down. For a while now I have completed all of the story (as I said I'm around day 60), so mostly what there is to do now is the Dream realm,Arena, some events and battle drills - that's not great, but I like the arena etc, so that's why I keep playing (rank 9 in arena currently). They are definitely running out of content for active players and as you said, the amount of rewards you can get after the story is limited. I guess to somewhat counter argue the resources point, like I said I have 16 m+ characters (with 5x +10 weapon and 2x +5 weapon) -> Yes ofc I would want more options and rest of my weapons upgraded more, but It's ok roster to try things
I did get lucky and pull twice within 15 tickets so I have him a shot, what I’ve learned is his best synergy is with Lucius and Rowan I cuz his energy guage to ult is low so he can throw lotta rocks but overall 3/10 user friendly
Full transparency Im like 2 weeks into the game so all is still new to me but from experimenting with the heroes I have which most are in legendary. I use him as fodder until he retreats and since Lucius I have is mythic plus with level 2 talent the damage reduction, self shield and Rowan ult and ulmus shield helped a lot for those tough one shot stages, starshard helps maintain dps then that leaves 2 slots for more support or damage dealers, i still dont think he’s worth the investment but for those who got the banner thinking he’d be good the comp is worth a shot
I think the biggest problem is that this is a game where the topic of whether or not you've screwed up your account is even a thing.
I.e. dont buy from the forges, EVER
No matter how much investment you put in this game, you are always gated, either date or purple powder or experience or pull tickets. This is how this game is designed to do so you always feel like there’s a goal you have to achieve. My problem is actually they are trying to limit the gap between f2p and p2w players. I just wanna be brutally honest that whales or hard core players put money and time into the game or push as hard as they could is to make them feel superior in terms of progress. I don’t see the reason why the dev wants to destroy this. For example, I deficit pushing, in order to get more experience or resources just to have that 10 level advantage over people who don’t. But no, now i only have 2 level advantage over people who don’t push now. (After we reach level 500, every 10 level only shows 2 in dream realm). Then what’s the point I push so hard XD.
It's not even subtle, such an obvious power creep that it snuffs out f2p players
Hey I always do my dailys and I play since 1 week after release and the only things in my opinion worth buying are the battle passes and the growth bundles when you push afk stages. But as you stated in your Video the main problem is that the game is focused on Whales (people who spend alot of money in gacha games).
@@herrknabe2973 I've never done a growth bundle myself but I admit it's probably the most tempting when I consider breaking f2p 😅
hm well as f2p it might be a good idea to save some of your essence for when you're able to get another character to m+, you seem at least close with some of them.
@@remnants9974 thankfully I have one or two so I would say maybe a week of dream realm fragments should have me there for one more, but the way it's been splitting is been unfortunately quite even across 10 or so characters so it's ben slowww
How old is this account? I'm sorry, but I feel like you did something "wrong" with this account, because when I was around day 35 I had like 7 m+ characters as F2P. Yes I did play a lot every day, but I think that is the "price" you have to pay as f2p if you want to be "competitive" (you won't be in top 20 DR and top 5 arena, but top 100/50 DR is doable and top 20 in arena). Ofc it's different / valid question if the game should work that way. You can't save resources early on, you just spend everything to boost your rankings in the different game modes and to get into good guild -> you use dream fragments to buy Odie/Marilee to boost you DR rankings = dream fragment income. Now that my account is 60 days old, I'm starting to save diamonds, but I have 16 m+/s+ characters to work with.
I mean I would argue that the game's mechanics are terrible if you even have to ask if someone screwed up their account or not. That shouldn't be a topic at all.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 I kind of agree with you on that, but it's a bit difficult topic to gage without knowing more about the account and what you want out of the game. First of all, it's a gacha game at it's core and that means, that you wont be top without paying (yes that sucks, but that's how these games work). If you play it here and there for the story and progress, not sure what there is to really complain about. IF you wanna be competetive as a f2p player you have to play daily and do most of the available content -> You can argue that this is bad design, but yeh that's about it. Ofc I can just say "I don't have enough anything to be competitive" and skip most of the content / save my resources, but is that then a valid argument?
It's a solid question, but I do have 42 days currently. I use my dream realm fragments just as you do, filling the costs of ascension which has gotten about 5 characters to mythic, but I havent been as lucky with pulls, aside from a casadee which did help for pre season dream realm.
What I ask you to think about is how is anyone without all this foresight to think about direct end game supposed to play this game and know all of this right at the beginning? Cause I'll admit you're not the first to say that you have a semi STACKED account and go "why account bad?"
It's not that I want to be competitive, I just dont want to struggle every day to get minuscule rewards and barely any story progress
@@ShawnSetGO Yeh I understand your point about not having the foresight of endgame and it's a valid point. It's clear that they want people to spend money on the game and that's why they give you limited resources, so if you don't spend them "optimally" as f2p that will hurt your account. I'm fairly competitive person in general, so how I approach games like this is that I look up information on UA-cam and I even made a second account after playing a while with my first one to do things better. I understand that is not for everyone. In general I think they made the S1 fights more difficult and your progress slower, because they don't have as much content, so they are trying to slow players down. For a while now I have completed all of the story (as I said I'm around day 60), so mostly what there is to do now is the Dream realm,Arena, some events and battle drills - that's not great, but I like the arena etc, so that's why I keep playing (rank 9 in arena currently). They are definitely running out of content for active players and as you said, the amount of rewards you can get after the story is limited. I guess to somewhat counter argue the resources point, like I said I have 16 m+ characters (with 5x +10 weapon and 2x +5 weapon) -> Yes ofc I would want more options and rest of my weapons upgraded more, but It's ok roster to try things
Not Pulling early will brick ur account
@@scyllastar7202 in hindsight, 100% true
Ulmus isn’t that great BUT if you got him at legendary+ or higher he lowkey clutches the yeti dream realm boss. Still weak but kinda funny
@@sol_eternum_3472 once he gets roots I'm all down for it, but I'll maybe just wishlist at best for a copy
@@ShawnSetGO oh absolutely, I saw that he was new and with no info I blew some tickets on him
I did get lucky and pull twice within 15 tickets so I have him a shot, what I’ve learned is his best synergy is with Lucius and Rowan I cuz his energy guage to ult is low so he can throw lotta rocks but overall 3/10 user friendly
@@sol_eternum_3472 I hadn't heard of Lucius but that sounds interesting. I'm curious if I can build a budget team for him
Full transparency Im like 2 weeks into the game so all is still new to me but from experimenting with the heroes I have which most are in legendary. I use him as fodder until he retreats and since Lucius I have is mythic plus with level 2 talent the damage reduction, self shield and Rowan ult and ulmus shield helped a lot for those tough one shot stages, starshard helps maintain dps then that leaves 2 slots for more support or damage dealers, i still dont think he’s worth the investment but for those who got the banner thinking he’d be good the comp is worth a shot