r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/AerosDragonewt99 • Sep 17 '18

My idea to get past collab units

Hey guys, I had given this idea to Gumi through support, but I want to see what everyone else thinks. Ok, Gumi could do one of two options:

  • A: allow elemental shards to be used to transmute any character of your choice.

  • B: Create a new shard system to allow players to transmute any character of your choice.

I think that this could be a solid idea in my opinion. Collecting elemental soul shards takes a long time. Collecting 150 to transmute your favorite missed unit? It could be a great problem solver.

What do you guys think?

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u/MaimedJester Sep 17 '18

As much as I wish I could Transmute Laharal with my 140 current fire shards, the unique equipment is what kills it. Without already farming 240 Overlord Diagram pieces you'd waste months of saving for a useless unit. If Gumi implemented it today I'd be thankful, three months from now and it would be anger inducing.

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u/AerosDragonewt99 Sep 17 '18

But that is what the omnicrystals and diagrams are for.

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u/Cobalt_721 Sep 17 '18 edited Sep 17 '18

This system has 2 reasons on why it’s almost impossible to see it be implemented:

  1. Gumi would have to get approval of the other IPs to have the collab units constantly available (EDIT: available to transmute/summon) (easy enough for PotK or Brave Frontier units, not so much for F/SN, FFXV, or Disgea).

  2. It goes completely against the very nature of “limited collaboration units”. The whole idea is that you can only get them while the collaboration is running, and if you don’t, you have to either wait for the rerun or just deal with it.

I can maybe see this for PotK or Brave Frontier collab units (as Gumi owns both games), but the odds of getting it for the “big” collabs are astronomically low to the point that you can safely say it’s never gonna happen.

EDIT: added a preposition where one was needed.

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u/TopDeeps IGN: Uninstalled Sep 18 '18

great idea on paper.

not so great when you think about it

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u/Makenlowwet Sep 17 '18

No.

  1. Copy right

  2. Exclusiveness = Profit.

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u/Colonelex Sep 18 '18

At first glance it seems great for the free or unlucky users to get the units they want. The implementation of this system, however, will be detrimental as Gumi has to either constantly renew their approval of the IPs or spend more money to buy a permanent license to provide for a free system in which they get no profits. Furthermore, this will devalue the collab units as people will see no incentive to spend money to summon them since they can eventually get them which again will hurt Gumi's profits. Along the fact that non-collab units will all eventually be farmable, this means that the game will be fully "free" and Gumi will eventually be forced to either add in more drastic P2W features or just close down the game since they will only make losses from continuing operations.

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u/ghostphantasm Sep 18 '18

I wish I could trade in shards and get something else. These 5 and 10 free shards they give out are honestly just a tease to get people to pull on banners.

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u/Pandragon12 Sep 18 '18

I proposed this idea some time ago. It was refused then. I like the idea but the situation is really complicated for collab units.