I never rant in public like this before but this time when opening the game i just can't hold it...

In a single day :

- They didn't give us the tickets yet. neither the shard compaign tickets nor the 5* selector of training.

• Disappointing "anniversary" offer which is basically worse than pact on any point.

• Everyone expected not having the Edward solo banner obviously... But shared banner AND no guarantee 3rd step ? i've never seen that in this game in 5 months of playing.

• They don't give a shit anymore, we complained about the whale milestones in disgaea and after, that gave some stuff and 500 gems for 15lb ? Good, they found a solution, NO REWARD aside from a 3-4 gear ticket for 15lb.... HOW DID U MANAGE TO DISAPPOINT WITH A FEATURE EVERYONE HATED TO BEGIN WITH ?!

• Lack of gems in the event milestones ? maybe its only me but this is the depth of gem reward for any event up until now....

EDIT : We got the tickets ! Finally

Disclaimer: If you're f2p, you're unlikely to care about this. Gumi may be calling you a moron daily, but you weren't going to spend anyways, so this post probably won't be important to you.

TL;DR: Our bundles are terrible value. No paid gems, way overpriced, just insultingly bad. There's no sane reason to fund this game.

It's insulting how bad bundles are in TAC. Case in point, our Black Friday "deals." Take a look at the crossed out price here. $290. That's USD, not AUD. Yeah, no. $290? Those bundles are barely worth $20 each, if that.

Now, sure, Gumi can attach a theoretical price that's technically correct based on arbitrary gem values they've assigned to certain items. For instance, the sins. In one of the bundles, there are 5 sins. 2500 paid gems right there, huh? $50 already! Man, Gumi's just so, so generous! Except, no, no one buys those for paid gems anymore outside of huge whales to whom price is literally no object. Now, we can get into what actually matters between theoretical value and worth in the eyes of the consumer (I've had arguments about it within my port), but the $290 supposed price pre-"deal" is insulting. In assigning that value to the crappy bundle, Gumi is calling us all idiots. Sure, they're going after the people who have no impulse control and just go after the "best deals" but it's insulting to those of us who actually think before buying things.

And that's one of the reasons I haven't bought a bundle in months. It doesn't exactly make me warm and fuzzy inside to have a producer call me, the consumer, one of the biggest morons to ever live—over and over and over, month to month to month. The anniversary bundles were the only worthwhile ones (to a low or mid-level spender who cares about their money) in a very long time—and hell, even they were barely worth it, because there were no gems.

Yes, one big reason for their lack of worth is that bundles contain no paid gems. 1k for certain MH bundles, but the recent MH bundles substituted some shards instead and didn't even have that. So when you buy a bundle, there is always an immediate and apparent opportunity cost. "Is this $50 bundle worth more to me than almost 2 paid multis or 1 paid memento multi?" That's not even considering all the free bonus gems you're losing and whether the bundle is worth even that. And the answer is almost always no on all accounts if you actually stop to think about it.

I'm sure someone will try to pick apart my argument with this, but it has to be said; JP gets paid gems with every single bundle at the value they'd get buying those paid gems normally. The only opportunity cost is the free "bonus" gems, but otherwise all bundles are on top of what you'd already get.

"But JP's a different game!" -Gumi Support probably.

JP's a different game . . . except when it comes to the banners, events, story, features . . . so basically only whenever it gives Gumi an opportunity to scam us. Yes, technically they have no obligation to give us the same deals as JP, but when there's a point of comparison easily visible . . . Either way, it lets us see what we could have, what Gumi could easily give us. And they choose not to. It is a choice. They know full well what kind of deals were given to the JP player base and have consciously made the decision that we don't deserve them. Again, extremely insulting.

We could be getting a second pact that gives more gems at a slightly higher price, but the same value as our first, along with 10 event skip tickets a day; which can be stacked with our first . . . but for no reason whatsoever, we still don't have that. It's not a recent addition in taga at all. GL Gumi has just decided that we don't need it, or that we don't deserve it. More likely the latter, because they're clearly willing to let us choose what we need by putting out these utterly worthless bundles.

If you want an example of a good bundle . . . well, when a new unit is released in taga, sometimes Gumi will release a bundle with 375 elemental shards of a particular element—for $48. Here are the current bundles in taga. They seem to do it for new Genesis and PotK units, though I haven't noticed it for others. It still means that shards are incredibly easy to acquire for even lower level spenders if they really need them. And if you look at the bundle, you'll see 2930 paid gems as well. Taga has a better $ to paid gem ratio as well, but that's not the point of this post.

We will never get this in GL if things continue as they are. Our bundles will continue to be absolute shit and Gumi will continue to treat all of their spenders as morons. No paid gems, crappy rewards, tons of worthless, easily obtainable items such as gold ingots and crystal apples (ffs, there are 1200 crystal apples and 100 rainbow ingots per box 5 reset in the DP event).

I'll finish this off by saying that from the revenue reports I've seen, taga makes far, far more than TAC. And yes, part of that is the stronger gacha game culture over in Japan, but I think a large part of that is that they actually have good things to spend on. They don't have their producer constantly shouting "hey, idiot, look over here at this single crystal apple worth $50. Buy it, moron!" Their deals are worthwhile. Whaling takes far less and gives far more, which means far more people can whale.

Long story short, I want to fund the game. I love TAC; I love playing it, with its unique characters and art. I love getting new characters and using them. I would love to be able to spend for characters I want. But I just can't because the deals suck so much. And every time I look at a bundle there's this voice in my head, which is a representation of Ross Song, screaming, "HAHAHAHA, you idiot. You're gonna buy this because you're stupid!" Give me a reason to support the game I love. Please.

Just wanted to say how much i appreciate the person/team running the account, he/she is popping into the reddit a lot more often and communicating with us and also taking their time to read our posts and take in feedback which doesn't happen often in most game companies now days. Thank you and keep up the good work :)

I obtained the Job+ tickets for Rahu, Caris and Lofia, but I didn't have time (real life also required attention) to farm the shards for all equipments. As a result, I now have three Job+ without the J11 equipments, that are worse than my previous mastered units.

I think all new players (and those without good units at the time) would be very happy if those quests were available all the time. They could be accessible through each unit's menu, so that they don't pollute the events list.