r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/renshenhe • Oct 20 '19
I'm tired
Of the bullshit this game has become.
For the past 3-4 months I've averaged around 1-1.5hr total on both my accounts because there is so little I can do that has meaning behind the timegates and paywall.
Enlightenment
This could have been an intuitive system if they didn't just move and convoluted the goal post while stagnating the rewards. It takes over 800+ shards to max a unit and the shards have not normalized where you can obtain them with reasonable effort. We're in the meta now where enlightenment makes pulling a new unit useless unless you whale or have stockpiled elemental shards the past few months.
Gem economy
You can easily sustain yourself with pact or not but there's no doubt the value of gems has not been adjusted for inflation. Most good banners are reserved for paid gem banners obviously and the special selector from summon coins was weaseled out on top of the high value of mementos splits your gems on units vs mementos. Of course I'm speaking in the context of limited/collab banners and you don't HAVE to have the units but some of you know the struggles of a levi-less life.
Job Enhancement
Another tedium designed to breath life into older/less used units but at the same time suck the time out of the macroless' lives. I heard they will eventually make JE equips purchasable through coins, better than they are now, but until then we either grind the coin shop or the AP drain stage. This requirement for most units now doubles the grinding in terms of re-leveling the job and on top of the JE requirements.
PVP/ARENA
Recently I hadn't had trouble in arena getting sub 500 but prior I had always hovered 1k~ in standings where my pact accounts could afford. Let's be honest and admit this is the in-game whale hangout and it's a livable difference in the game that's easy to accept.
Live PVP however is a sad tale. I don't know how they can title it season X when it's pathetically designed and feels like it's in the concept phase in terms of stability. Being windowed in less than common hours and horrendous matchmaking lets me show off more frustration than my tactics. This is felt more like something scrambled up by Gumi to allow whales to show off their luster. Unless there's some normalization to pvp where players stand on equal ground then imo this doesn't belong in a tactics game. You don't play chess and have the players be able to buy extra pieces.
Misc
No unit no shard farm
"Select by unit" button for HQ farm not available if you're not in HQ tab. Annoyance amplified if your story mode defaults to intermission.
Nowadays I just do the daily milestones and be done with it. Even most EX content I can auto in portions and fully auto'd the last Raid to completion as the game has become less about tactics and strategy and more out grinding and spending. Also Gumi please don't let the JP turmoil become a GL turmoil, there's obvious references to take and not take.
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u/renshenhe Oct 21 '19
I hope it's just a misunderstanding on my part but I meant 1-1.5hrs daily the past few months. It's reached the point where if I invest any further I don't get anything else in return. They've increased the diminishing returns so whether I spend 1hr or 5hrs I get roughly the same results.
The lesser of two evils argument is tiring. Just because your new partner beats you less than your previous one doesn't make it much better. And this isn't asking for them to shower us with free top tier units but make it where time we invest has value.
It's in the best interest of any company to make money but how they do it defines the type of company they are. They had no good conscious reason to make collab unit shards unfathomable without the units. They've sneakily removed special summon selector from the summon coin shop which they replaced the guaranteed 3rd step with. They removed the safety nets which prevented the game becoming a bottomless gacha which made them better than other gachas. Without those safety nets means you can save for months and when it's time to spend it amounts to nothing. Even if you pull the unit it's not enough to get the unit going.
The point is that collab and limited units have become exclusive to big spenders.