Pejo
Member
So for those not in "the know":
So the question I leave to you GAF; do you think that Cygames made a mistake with this event, and that the gap between Tier 3 winners and Tier 4 plebians is too much? Or do you think that a lot of himming and hawwing is going on among the playerbase that will get over it in a few days and be right back in there?
No matter how this plays out, as an extremely casual player of the game, I enjoy it when things get shaken up a bit.
And, for those wondering: I was one of the unlucky ones that only got 2 Tier 4 rewards, the absolute minimum.
- Typically around this time of year, for the past couple years, you get scratch-off tickets for free every day on login. Usually you got shitty prizes like AP pots (basically stamina, allows you to continue playing the game), materials that you need a bajillion of to upgrade things, etc. Every once in a while you would get something good like a premium character or summon (Playable characters in the game). Everybody got something, mostly disappointment, as the premium stuff was rare. The game would mock you for fun no matter what you got by saying a message "boy we sure are generous!" which became a meme. You get another chance with this every day through the campaign and despite rising and falling levels of salt, the community kinda embraced it.
- This year, they opt for a new system. Every day through the period on login, you got a randomly generated 3 digit number. After 2 weeks or so of them, they will pick numbers out of a hat, and people will win items based on how many matching numbers you had. There are 4 "tiers" of redeemable items you can win. You can win multiple times with your set of cards. The game is rigged in a way that you will win at least twice as long as you collect all the cards via log in.
- Tier 1 - Typical best rewards - premium weapons/characters that save you a ton of grind, or otherwise very valuable items, such as a ticket to let you pick literally anything from the game, including promotional characters and ultra limited characters.
- Tier 2 - 100,000 of the premium currency. This is enough to allow you to roll enough times on ANY banner to not only get the target of the banner that you want, but also whatever riffraff comes along the way. Insanely good prize that dwarfs the value of the other prizes in that tier.
- Tier 3 - Selectable premium limited characters and summons.
- Tier 4 - Here's the good part - 1/75th of an item that will eventually get you the ticket mentioned in tier 1. Normal grindable materials that you get oodles of just by playing the game normally.
- The math works out in such a way, with the 3 digit numbers on the cards, that about half or more of the playerbase should win SOMETHING besides the guaranteed 2x Tier 4 rewards.
So the question I leave to you GAF; do you think that Cygames made a mistake with this event, and that the gap between Tier 3 winners and Tier 4 plebians is too much? Or do you think that a lot of himming and hawwing is going on among the playerbase that will get over it in a few days and be right back in there?
No matter how this plays out, as an extremely casual player of the game, I enjoy it when things get shaken up a bit.
And, for those wondering: I was one of the unlucky ones that only got 2 Tier 4 rewards, the absolute minimum.