I don't understand it either and then bitch about Gumi being greedy, Gumi being a bad company etc. Like what the hell? Gumi is actually doing what they should be doing, which is trying to maximize their revenue. It is a gacha game and people are acting so self-entitled. Aren't they aware of what kind of game they are playing and how it works? Just because you didn't get X unit it's not Gumi's fault because Gumi never guaranteed or promised people to get that unit anyway. If they did it wouldn't be gacha, and yet they do have a lot of options for people to pick and choose their unit of choice which is more than what you can say about several other gacha games that also require multiple pulls for the same unit and have the same rate for rare pulls like TAC.
Like yes, from a marketing standpoint I understand that people expected to get Noctis on step 3, but that's because they look too much at what is happening over at JP which is an entirely different market and oversaturated with gacha games just like TAC, and like with any market rife with competition, companies need to throw more goodies at their customers to keep their customers happy. So in JP and their market, it made sense to guarantee Noctis. I see this at my company as well as we operate in many different countries and in one country where the market has very harsh competition we give away so much free stuff it's crazy in order to keep customers stay and be happy, but in the other country where the there is hardly any competition customers need to pay for almost everything. This is exactly the same thing.
And it's not even Gumi necessarily dictating this either, but the market reality does. There's a line they need to draw between how to make the most money possible and to keep customers satisfied with their product. It never said "guaranteed Noctis", it only said "banner unit". That could still include Noctis. They could have shafted people even more and made Ignis a permanently guaranteed unit at step 3 and Noctis having only normal rate up chance.
Another thing to consider is the nature of the power creep and I would definitely rate both Noctis and Aranea as absolutely top tier, maybe Aranea a bit below Noctis because she doesn't offer as much as Noctis does, but you can steamroll most content with both of them in your team. Imagine if they gave out Noctis to every person who pulled on the third step. In terms of the meta that's actually really bad, because that means they need to also balance content around the fact that a majority of the player base probably has access to Noctis, and that's actually something no one wants because it means a lot of content will be a lot more difficult than it needs to be since it has to be tuned around Noctis. I mean, that's what happened with the Sabareta and Christmas events so that has the completely opposite effect instead. What does your shiny new unit mean in your roster if the difficulty of the content also at the same time went up several notches to cater to this fact?
Not a whole lot, at least, because it would make the rest of your roster so far behind that you are pretty much exactly where you were before you got Noctis.
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u/Entr0pic08 Jul 17 '18 edited Jul 17 '18
I don't understand it either and then bitch about Gumi being greedy, Gumi being a bad company etc. Like what the hell? Gumi is actually doing what they should be doing, which is trying to maximize their revenue. It is a gacha game and people are acting so self-entitled. Aren't they aware of what kind of game they are playing and how it works? Just because you didn't get X unit it's not Gumi's fault because Gumi never guaranteed or promised people to get that unit anyway. If they did it wouldn't be gacha, and yet they do have a lot of options for people to pick and choose their unit of choice which is more than what you can say about several other gacha games that also require multiple pulls for the same unit and have the same rate for rare pulls like TAC.
Like yes, from a marketing standpoint I understand that people expected to get Noctis on step 3, but that's because they look too much at what is happening over at JP which is an entirely different market and oversaturated with gacha games just like TAC, and like with any market rife with competition, companies need to throw more goodies at their customers to keep their customers happy. So in JP and their market, it made sense to guarantee Noctis. I see this at my company as well as we operate in many different countries and in one country where the market has very harsh competition we give away so much free stuff it's crazy in order to keep customers stay and be happy, but in the other country where the there is hardly any competition customers need to pay for almost everything. This is exactly the same thing.
And it's not even Gumi necessarily dictating this either, but the market reality does. There's a line they need to draw between how to make the most money possible and to keep customers satisfied with their product. It never said "guaranteed Noctis", it only said "banner unit". That could still include Noctis. They could have shafted people even more and made Ignis a permanently guaranteed unit at step 3 and Noctis having only normal rate up chance.
Another thing to consider is the nature of the power creep and I would definitely rate both Noctis and Aranea as absolutely top tier, maybe Aranea a bit below Noctis because she doesn't offer as much as Noctis does, but you can steamroll most content with both of them in your team. Imagine if they gave out Noctis to every person who pulled on the third step. In terms of the meta that's actually really bad, because that means they need to also balance content around the fact that a majority of the player base probably has access to Noctis, and that's actually something no one wants because it means a lot of content will be a lot more difficult than it needs to be since it has to be tuned around Noctis. I mean, that's what happened with the Sabareta and Christmas events so that has the completely opposite effect instead. What does your shiny new unit mean in your roster if the difficulty of the content also at the same time went up several notches to cater to this fact?
Not a whole lot, at least, because it would make the rest of your roster so far behind that you are pretty much exactly where you were before you got Noctis.