This post is not specifically about GFL2, but holy fuck. Could the gacha system in that game be any more awful?

It is exactly the gacha system of Genshin, where the player is shafted by abysmal rates, 50% banner instead of 100% and even mixed with weapon pulls. It is, by far, the worst aspect of the game.

Is a little bit of booba and dorm action worth it to you? This is a enormous red flag to me, same as the game having VIP systems.

Whenever a Japanese game announces it's going to EoS, the official announcement tends to only say something about "being difficult to provide an experience" or "lacking one's ability", and such announcements tend to be very similarly worded from game to game and developer to developer. They seem rather corporate and impersonal, usually only saying that the game is shutting down, that purchases are disabled, and refunds are coming. As an example, see the Square Enix announcement for Engage Kill shutting down; most Japanese EoS announcements have similar wordings. Occasionally we'll get more detailed or personal announcements, or even letters from the staff, but these are the exception rather than the rule. Even then, they often are vague about the reasons for the shutdown.

This is in contrast to Western EoS announcements (whether for mobile games or console/PC games), which tend to be more tailor-made to the game that's shutting down, often making references to the community (usually by using nicknames) or to the game itself. Take for example the brand new announcement of the game XDefiant shutting down, which talks about the history of the game briefly, suggests that it failed to gain traction, mentions the game's achievements, and gives very deep thanks to the community. Many other games have similar announcements. The failed battle royale game Rumbleverse also had a personal shutdown announcement, albeit one vague on the reasons; the developer also had a personal letter to fans. Meanwhile, Concord's shutdown announcement was more corporate, but still mentioned references to the game itself.

Is there a reason why, in general, Japanese EoS announcements tend to be more impersonal or corporate than Western EoS announcements? Is it something about Japanese culture, or is it something else? It's just something I've been curious about for a while.

I have it a shot because i was curious since it is so massive and all the ads, memes and stuff about the game. I heard it was bad and greedy but I did not expect it to be this bad

Max 2x speed

No sweeps for anything

Game sell single pulls with a 10 procent chance for a legendary like 40-60 USD. Or 4 pulls for their mythical shards with 1 procent legendary chance and 0,5 procent mythical chance for 20 usd

Awful rates for normal summons like 0,5 procent (1 with a double rates event) Many many popups for extremely overpriced stuff to buy

Daily quests giving nearly nothing

Weekly quests giving ONE (yes just ONE) ancient shard with 1 procent legendary chance (that is WITH the double event)

This great graphics that the ads tell you are CONSOLE LEVEL GRAPHICS is PS1 quality. Compare The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age with RSL and you can see that the former just looking way better than the later (with similar graphic styles as well)

There is a dupe system for heroes so you can spend a lot of money for those dupes. Unlike Summoners War that don't have a normal dupe system so all you need is one copy (Summoners War got insanely bad rates but it gives an acceptable number of pulls and there are no dupe system)

Game itself is just Summoners War again with dark fantasy graphics and WAY more greed. RSL stinginess makes Genshin look like Snowbreak or any other super generous gacha in comparison

The lack of QoL is so bad that the community for RSL created RSLhelper so that people can play RSL with some kind of QoL. Why should people have to download an addon to get basic QoL that every gacha game have these days?

WHY is there a 24 hour cooldown to add a new reward code after you added one? This is literally the only gacha game that does this. WHY?

The so called EPIC STORY the ads tell you about is insanely bland, generic and very short. I am sure not even RSL players care about the story.

Bloated hero pulls in rate up events makes you love the Genshin styled coinflips. At least getting what you want is far easier and far cheaper than in RSL. And this is with a game of the quality of RSL compared to GI

With all the pop ups for packs, the lack of any QoL, the insanely overpriced packs, the insanely bad rewards for normal stuff makes RSL on my top 3 for worst gacha games that are popular. The only positive things i can say about RSL is that some of the char designs are good and it is still better than Hero Wars.

Why do people play RSL over Summoners War or Epic Seven?

RSL is WORSE than you might have read elsewhere. Don't play it.

Wishing y’all good luck on your pulls and to your future pulls.

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the Excellence category basically made for Genshin since they've been awarded Grand Award for 3 years in a row lmao.

One night, WW and HSR walked into a bar, and they were both drunk.

I do not mean to judge, but this game feels a little bit too familiar.

I used the tags "promo" because the rules require it, but I'm skeptical about whether it's worth playing until the game presents more original content.

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Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infoldgames.infinitynikkien&pcampaignid=web_share

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infinity-nikki/id6502622570

TapTap: https://m.taptap.io/app/infinity-nikki-248119?share_id=5c14fa37ab85&utm_medium=share&utm_source=copylink

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As we draw close to the end of 2024, what is everyone's current main gacha games, and side gacha games?

What games did you try this year but ultimately drop, and what new pickups did you guys have and are currently still playing, and will be playing for the foreseeable future?

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Pretty much retains all content from the 7 years this game has been live but can be played offline and just a one off purchase

It retains pretty much exactly everything from the gacha game including the premium currency which can be gained by converting using the bells you collect ingame or earning them through daily quest

This still gives you that gacha feeling without ever having to spend money on it

Also its Animal Crossing, one of the coziest games ever made

https://thegameawards.com/brackets/players-voice

As the tittle says. Like those games with fast paced combat and gives u an adrenaline rush. Also extremely fun to play and easy to catch.

I'd say wuthering waves. The moment I started playing it I got hella addicted to the combat, and it was also very easy to understand. But unfortunately I had to uninstall it coz my laptop couldn't handle it anymore 😔😔.

What about u guys?

(This is my first post in this sub btw)