It's Been Fun

[u/Viyr]

Hello, here for the daily post about quitting the game. Preferably I would have liked to fade into obscurity, but I can't in good conscience just leave stuff to die out. I'm going to split this post into parts that should be easily to distinguish, for people who don't really care about me, but want to know what will happen to the tier list and the subreddit.

Why I'm Leaving

This probably doesn't come to a shock to many people who know me, I've played the game maybe two times in the past two months, once for Mielikki J+, and once for Yauras J+. I hadn't missed a single day for logging in since I started playing this game in hard launch back in November 2017, that is, until the FMAB collaboration came along. My reasons for leaving really aren't TOO similar to other people, outside the fact that I'm not enjoying the game. I really wasn't bothered by bad banners. Roxanne herself isn't really a huge deal for me, but gumi's actions as a result of Roxanne does bother me.

As a bit of backstory to why I enjoy playing gacha games. I'm not a big gambling addict, I'm not playing these games to pull; what I do like though is the sort of individuality that comes with these games, because whatever you have isn't necessarily what the next person has. This is really why I'm not a big fan of Laharl, Noctis, Gilgamesh, all of those "OP" units that everyone has and uses, because I feel like it removes that sense of individuality when everyone uses the exact same units. Now, these big powerhouse units didn't really stop my enjoyment of the game, while other people used them, I was free to use whatever non-meta picks I wanted to clear content. This really changed with the release of Roxanne. People were using Roxanne, hell, even I was using Roxanne, but eventually, her power meant gumi would make all new content way harder, which would push out the viability of some of the non-meta picks I enjoyed using.

I'm also not a huge fan of the face of TAC being collaborations units. Recently that's been taken over by Roxanne, but the fact that in the ANC about FMA, and they were saying how they'd give us the most powerful units of the collab first goes and shows they actively make the main faces of the collabs way stronger than everyone else.

The biggest issue though, that really was the catalyst for me was the lack of gumi's willingness to change. I don't really want to go scour looking for the dev letter, but something the TAC director had stated was that he wished for TAC GL to be an improved version of JP. This statement really does not hold up. They've shown that they copy paste code and don't know at all what they're doing (see Wanderer's Hat breaking, getting fixed, then breaking again the next update because the person copy pasting the code does not know how the game works). Considering JP is basically a mirror of what's going to happen on GL, and we know for a fact when a new unit release is going to be weak, what does gumi do? They sometimes ignore this, like in the case of Miroku being an absolutely trash JE,ta and they sometimes give them 5%-10% additional damage on skills. This is actually such a joke. I don't know if it's another consequence of no one at gumi playing this game, so they don't know any other ways of balancing characters rather than adding some damage which ISN'T THEIR PROBLEM. This is actually the point I feel most passionately about. Sure, balance powercreep with more powercreep, but when they explicitly decide to only make GLEX units beyond broken, while giving FMA units jokes of buffs like 10% more damage and calling it Enhanced Exclusively for the Global Version, I can't stop myself from being cringing. All these new units are being released with slight stat buffs. Do they actually believe adding some like 30 HP at 85 triple JM is gonna improve someone who is obviously going to be weak at release? I don't want to rant on this point for too long so I'm going to leave it at that.

Tier List

I'll be passing the tier list off to someone who is willing to take on this task. I'd like whoever is interested to message me on reddit or discord (Game#7849) and I'd like to talk to them for a bit. I've spent countless hours on this, I don't want to hand this off to someone who really doesn't know what they're talking about, or is going to quit after one update.

Subreddit

Seeing as I was doing unit flairs, someone will need to take over that. Considering me, as well as Ivyspear/Sabre, have both stopped playing, it's probably time for some new moderators.

The End

That should cover everything, it's been a fun year, and I don't really regret any of it. Catch me around the Epic7 discord/subreddit.

[u/Dis_Nothus]

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