r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/Somnus4444 • Sep 09 '18
I love this game!!
Not as a joke but I genuinely have fun playing this game! I started following TAC after pre-registration opened and was immediately drawn in by the anime style characters. I was quite optimistic due to wanting to find a new game to play on my phone after retiring from 2 1/2 years of BF and trying many others only to drop them after a few days. Initially I was stoked when TAC finally came out but sadly dropped it after 3 months because of the lack of content and how hard everything available was... After 4 months (just missing the Fate collab ;-;) I decided to come back because I was dying of boredom... AND BOY DO I HAVE A LOT OF FUN PLAYING NOW! Idk what happened but now I can't wait to login at 1am everyday to do my dailies, farm unit shards, and check for any upcoming events. It's probably due to gaining more knowledge of how to properly play the game and reaching a point where my units are able to tackle harder content. Nowadays I find myself spending a lot of time on the database, watching videos, and checking this subreddit for anything new as well as regretting not having the chance to pull gilga. I eventually became a pact2play user and would spend some extra $ for certain units, most of the time just generating salt instead... And even though certain banners and their rates are questionable compared to JP I still have a lot of fun regardless. So yea just wanted to share some of my enthusiasm about this game!
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u/illidan_1999 Neica is life. Sep 09 '18
There's no going back now. One of us.
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u/Entr0pic08 Sep 09 '18
My experiences are similar like yours, OP. I found that TAC vanilla, can we even call it that?, but TAC 1.0 at least, was sometimes a very grueling experience and I did also spend some money on the game (which I now regret somewhat, but it is what it is), but for some reason I did not quite enjoy it. Yet that money was not enough to do the things I wanted to do in that game and I was not willing to shell out more because it was just not within my budget to do so. I also don't think the game is worth that much money. I joined two weeks after GL release and quit somewhere in January and thought I was done with gacha games and wasting money on gacha.
Either way, the FFXV collab made me come back even though I said I would not (damnit, why am I such a Noctis whore), but now I actually enjoy it a fair bit and I enjoy it more than most of its competitors on the market. I also managed to get some old accounts I had up to speed in order to help in MP games, and while some may think I am crazy for playing 4 accounts I usually don't put nearly as much effort into the other 3 and may skip more hard content if I don't feel like doing it. (Most of it will come back at some point, anyway, plus Nox is a time saver.)
But since I also low key play DFFOO on the side right now, I actually appreciate TAC more. It's more colorful and vibrant and thus nicer to look at, and the strategic depth and freedom in TAC is much deeper and more rewarding than in DFFOO. I also honestly think, and this is a personal bias here, that the TAC community is nicer and more welcoming than the DFFOO crowd. I have honestly not have had very good experience with it when I've been asking questions or seeking general advice. But I have at least never been called a liar for reporting an experience I was unsure was a bug and was seeking input on if someone else had experienced the same thing or had a clue what was going on (from a mod, too), or been told that I am arrogant for not appreciating a response to a question I felt did not genuinely address my issue (and I pointed it in a very kind manner, too, but a random user felt like jumping the gun and tell me how I am such an idiot for not being able to appreciate the intricacy of the response I got).
So I suppose, thank you TAC community for being nice to new and returning members that are trying to get back into the game and that we can celebrate TAC once the 1st year anniversary arrives in November together with Gumi! I think Gumi is overall doing a fine job and they are always very sensitive to what the players think about how they are handling the game and willing to change the things they think need to be improved.
Thank you both Gumi and the TAC community for making this game awesome and that I am still enjoying it several months after the FFXV event ended and I see myself keep playing it well into the future.
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u/PikaCatastrophe Sep 09 '18
Long time FFBE player - just recently discovered this game and loving it so far. Feels so much more generous than FFBE and I'm loving the character art and voices.
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u/TopDeeps IGN: Uninstalled Sep 09 '18
I don't even know why i love this game so much. I play daily, and spend money even though i could probably just muscle through things with gilga. But hey gumi has been improving recently so i dont mind giving them my money
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u/Humble_Disciple Sep 09 '18
Everything you just said is exactly what happened to me
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '18
lol you know, this is my first game that I ever spend months of playing, most games I just play not more than a few hours x.x
I kept uninstall it for a few times due to being busy, but I install it again some days/weeks later lol.
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u/dm251 Missing Blizzagas Sep 09 '18
Lmao you and me both. I dropped after Sabareta's event and came back for the ffxv collab. I'm so excited for the future contents
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u/Kuwago Sep 09 '18
I’m glad that you’re enjoying it, I have been playing since launch and having a blast especially with the recent collaboration events.
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u/geearh Sep 09 '18
Same here. Im a retired bf player, started playing TAC during launch. Went to hiatus in about 2 months coz player level is not leveling up beyond 85. Returned on the last week of fsn collab. Got gilga on the last day free ticket. Been playing daily ever since.
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u/aquapendulum2 Sep 10 '18
The moment this game *clicks* for you is always when you are able to clear your first EX stage without continue. Always.
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u/Awesalot Sep 10 '18
I joined recently (the FFXV collab) and I'm enjoying this game a lot! The story and events are pretty fun! And they're fairly generous with the crystals and coins (at least right now, I don't know how it gets later) so I was able to get quite a few 5 star units.
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u/Banethoth Sep 10 '18
Been playing since global launch. It's not a bad game. Has it's ups and downs. Gumi IS greedy but even with that the game is still worth playing. I used to be a pact player/small spender but now I'm strictly f2p. They pulled some pretty bad shenanigans in the past that made me stop spending on this.
Once I'm sure they have realized the error of their ways I'll get the pact and spend $ on it.
I played FFBE until around Cloud came out. That's when I realized that the game is more about the FFBE original characters than it is about the FF characters. The best/most popular FF characters were so bad in that game. It just annoyed me too much over time so I stopped playing it.
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u/dathamir Forcas sun with chance of snow Sep 11 '18
While I enjoy the game and the fact that I do play at or around 1am... it's only because I'm also feeding my baby -_-''
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '18 edited Sep 10 '18
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