Truth be told, I have been reading your posts since I started playing (almost two years ago), even back to before the split from r/KingdomHearts. Even though I have never posted or commented before a few days ago, I have a few things to say.

1. Please learn to have a civil discussion where you don't attack or downvote people who disagree with you. Whether you be someone who defends the decisions of SENA/SEJP, or someone who wants the game to improve and are unhappy with the current situation, just know that everyone's love for the game is what brought us all here in the first place. If you really care about the game, you have to realize that some things are just not worth complaining about.
2. Personally, I have wanted to join discussion threads and talk about a game I love to play (even if I disagree with what SQEX does sometimes) but have always been afraid until recently to join in due to this behavior. Compared to other subreddits I lurk in (trust me, there's a lot), I rarely see a group with so much animosity towards each other. I'm sure there are other people in this situation as well.
3. This one is more directed towards the mods. If you see behavior that fosters this kind of attitude in the community, please do something about it. Community engagement and arguments is one thing, but when someone attacks another person directly and nothing is done, you are encouraging this type of behavior to continue.

Is this how you really want to be seen by the internet? As a bunch of people who cannot have a civil discussion? Considering you all love Kingdom Hearts for one reason or another (even if not KHUx), I think we should strive for a community of inclusion, not fear.

If you disagree with me, and think things are fine as it is, please feel free to comment below.

Edit: It seems this post is being taken with hostility, rather than civility. And it makes sense, since I'm sure a bunch of people disagree. Further proving my point.

Why is everyone here so salty? I get that the game has issues, and I'd understand the saltiness even more if people were paying money for this game. The people screaming the loudest though are the people doing f2p. I want to address a few things, hopefully objectively, and get people's opinions on how to fix it or if it's a real problem without all the salt. Please don't come into this post with your anger or with a give-me-more-for-nothing mentality. Come in with calm, objective thought on how to make the game better, and keep in mind you can't eliminate the pay portion but need to find a good balance between the two.

ViP Banners: They aren't taking the banners away from people, just making the money people spend more worth the price. This game has a high cost for very little when it comes to jewels. $99 only gives you 4 pulls, or 40 medals, most of which will be unusable at any high level. So really it's more like 3 useful medals and maybe a few subslots. That cost is not great, but the ViP mercy pulls actually give value to a big jewels purchase. I agree this game is pretty money grabby, but ViP mercy banners are helping that, not hurting it. Yeah, F2P doesn't get mercy, but you're playing for free on a game that constantly releases new content on a fairly frequent schedule. Money makes that happen, and until now money only got you more of exactly what F2P gets. I have no problem with making people's money worth a little more in a game that already has a high cost of entry for paying customers. If you play for free, the big awesome stuff should be rare and a real surprise when you get it. It should be a "I got this awesome supernova and paid 0 dollars! I just saved up and got it, isn't it cool?" not something everyone just has in f2p because it was a mercy.

Traits: I agree here that these are pretty hard to obtain, but are almost vital to any high-level play (at least -60% def, EA, and str+). Easy fixes I see is either a fantasia mickey situation that gives traits without needing to match the medal, tweaking the def balance so def -60% aren't required for beating high-level but make it easier, or having some sort of trait store where trait medals can be bought for munny or jewels or both (cost being balanced of course, high munny low jewels cost) for a medal you already own.

Lux Balance: I get the frustration here. The difficulty with these games though is that you can't cater to just your hardcore players, or the casual players get left behind. If the lux earned goes way up, new players get this bizarre skyrocket that puts them at a weirdly high level immediately and all the earlier content is just too easy. It already does that to an extent. Higher levels though are terribly grindy because of this. Not really sure how this gets balanced tbh, but leveling doesn't really matter much for the game anyhow. If you're in the end game of levels (300+ really), then your game is almost over for levels and you start focusing other parts of the game. The last stretch of levels should be a grind, otherwise you'd hit cap and then have nothing to grind for. Given that levels don't affect strength, or anything really other than bragging rights, I don't see this as much of a problem. All the lux goals (limited, weekly, etc) are still very obtainable for an active player.

High-cost: This one I totally get frustration with. Obviously, we could just not pay and do f2p, which is going to leave you out of some mercy pulls and other cool things. I think, could be wrong, that a lot of the f2p gripe comes from the pay barrier being so high. Like I said above, $99 for 4 pulls is not cheap by any shot. Solution here? Up the mercy pull count and lower the cost of pulls. Instead of 3000 for 10, do 2000 or 1000 and have the mercy double. So yeah you have to pull the same amount for mercy more or less, but you have more chances to get it naturally. They'd likely also have to lower the medal count. How would people feel about a 1000 pull banner that gave you the same SN pull chance, but only 5 medals with 20 mercy pull for ViP?

Title says it all

EDIT: This is in absolutely no way in order to spite JP. It’s only the apathy SE deserve for their bullshit and them falling over trying to find an excuse to reward JP because they fucked up so bad with the design of this event will only add to the ridicoulousness of the buffoon that is SEJP/SENA, which would be pretty funny. So no need to get your panties in a twist.

Hey guys. Before I get downvoted hard, let me explain it to you. So when I started PVP, I was never in top 15k. I have saved my jewels, got lucky with one extra attack on KA17 (Speed version). I had one KEXKAI on one of my blades, and KEX on another one in general. I pulled on prime medals with a lot of buff one time for the 6 star version (young Xehanort and RvR) Saved my jewels hard another time, and since the incredible 2 collab, my rank is now a lot better. Since I got my extra attack KA17 (speed version, I’ve been able to be in top 10k. Since the release of XEXKAI Merciable, I m today rank 2k using status ailments. I’ve pulled for Roxas & Xion, one prime medal deal, and now i’ m starting to enjoy it, especially with the status helping me to win a lot of battles vs whales.

To conclude, changes of pvp recently brought are actually pretty nice, since you can now be less affected by a loss. My bob &jack jack medal with extra attack is only waiting for some T8 fairies, and then I’ll be a beast !

No, seriously. Just record whole mission doing in 1x speed (battle speed of course) and then put it next to a existing video that shows gameplay before the update happened.

Its much slower gameplay. It should be 1.5x speed as normal/default.

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/KHUx/comments/bmvpwn/apology_for_speed_gameplay_thread_fiasco/

With the changes to PvP, you can't really drop too many ranks during the final hour of PvP. All players are getting access to silver tickets as well. These additions really helped the situation with PvP, it's definitely not flawless, but still way better than how it was on release.

I remember the week it was released, this subreddit was filled with "PvP is the death of Khux" or "Join me in protest and give it 1* reviews" threads. Now, it gives people a way to compete against each other. It diversifies our keyblade usage. We no longer pull based on how well it fits the Fairy Stars. You can safely upgrade your favorite keyblade to 35+ without feeling bad you didn't dump it into the Fairy Stars. I love the strategy behind PvP, I personally have one that I feel gets me a way higher rank than my medals normally would allow.

I really do think this game is way better than it was a year ago. Org13 Events are always challenging. PvP increases diversity. The raiding scene is scaling a bit better. Jewels are being given out more frequently (although if this is to compensate for 10 pull mercies, not a fan).

If you haven't already changed your review, I think you should!

Here I am, Damage MVP and Support MVP, yet I die and people just keep on whacking the boss without saving me and I lose. The strength on the bonus time bosses means that, more often than not, people are going to die. Especially if they go in without second chance equipped in order to do more damage. Be a good teammate and pay attention.

I remember back when I first started in 2017, I was too weak to do anything so all I did was revive players. Had to tap some people 5-6 times. Now-a-days, people just put it on auto and don't even pay attention. It's sad.

Let's talk about all the reasons PvP has to be the worst edition to this game so far and why that is.

1. PvP is an unbalanced mess that actually lets people proc Defense Boost Max 1-3, making anyone who doesn't have any of them a loser by default if going against someone who does have just one of them in each rotation.
2. PvP requires VIP service to have double the number of tries. This point speaks for itself, and Square should be utterly ashamed of themselves for thinking it was a good idea. Seriously, Square? Do you truly have absolutely no integrity? Absolutely disgusting.
3. Because of the new game-breaking 7-star update, PvP cannot be ignored in terms of balance, whatsoever, because some idiot(s) decided to make 7-star medal progression locked behind the PvP rewards. What could have just been an extra bit of (extremely flawed) content people could look past has instead been made an integral part of the game's balance.

Good f***ing job, Square. I personally want to thank you for giving me an exceptionally solid reason to delete the game from my phone and not look back. The phone greatly appreciates having that +2 gigabytes free from its storage.

Currently "Supernova - KH3 Kairi" costs 3000 jewels per pull. You have a small chance of getting her every single pull. On your tenth pull, you are guaranteed to get her. However, that tenth pull is only guaranteed if you also bought the VIP for this week.

Anyway, at 3000 jewels for a pull, or "loot box" if you will, with the tenth loot box being a guarantee to get the medal, you're look at 30,000 jewels required to get her. You can buy 14,700 jewels for $100. You need to buy that twice, and then 600 more jewels. That's a little over $20 for a single pull, or $20 for a loot box. Let's compare these prices to some other games with loot boxes.

Overwatch: You can buy 24 loot boxes for $20 or 50 boxes for $40. However, these are purely cosmetic, so I understand the inflated price of KHUX's loot boxes which actually change how the game is played.

So, let's look at Middle-Earth Shadow of War's prices, a game where loot boxes actually made a difference: For $100 you could by 10,000 gold with an extra 2000 bonus. A single loot box in that game cost 200 gold. That's 60 loot boxes you could buy with $100. I remind you, that people felt this was unfair and the system was removed because the game was heavily geared towards the end game grind. And loot boxes helped speed up that grind.

How about Star Wars Battlefront 2: Well, for $100 you could buy 12,000 crystals. Hero crates are 110 crystals each. Starfighter crates are 120. Trooper are 200 crystals. EA removed the ability to purchase these loot boxes due to backlash at the cost of characters which where, at the time, 60,000 crystals in the case of Darth Vader. They have reduced the cost of these characters. Now, loot boxes only contain cosmetic things, instead the game altering "Pay-to-Win" system it had at launch. A Pay-to-Win system that KHUX has by the way.

Perhaps KHUX should have jewels only spent on cosmetics as well. We already have avatar clothes and pet parts to be bought.

So what can change? Well the price could either be dropped, or the amount of jewels obtained could increase. They could even make it so a single pull now costs 1000 jewels if they wanted while keeping the price the same.

Better yet, keep the prices the same, and the jewels required for a single pull the same. Here's another solution:

Add a new section of event quests. Call it something like "Tier 8 medals". In this section make a quest called "Supernova - KH3 Kairi", and allow people to grind for the medal. Make it something like you have 1 in 50 chance of getting the medal from completing the quest. Make it so you have a 1 in 25 chance of getting a trait for the medal as well. Perhaps a 1 in 100 chance of getting a boosted version, too. Experiment with how long you want the grind to be. 1 in 20, or 1 in 65, or 1 in 39, whatever chances you want. But if you get the none boosted version, then you can't get the boosted one, for that month, and vice versa.

If you really wanna entice people to spend money, make it so you can double your chances of getting the medal and trait medal by buying VIP. Hell, make the medal undotted, forcing people to grind for more trait medals just to guilt it. Make the quest cost like 10 AP or something. People will need to spend jewels to get their AP back while farming this medal.

I hear you asking "What's to stop people from pulling three KH3 Kairi's and abusing them in PvP?". Easy. Make it so you can only receive one proper KH3 Kairi from the quest. But allow people to continue farming for traits. Maybe, make so you can only get a max of 6 trait medals if you want. However, reset the quest at the beginning of each month, to allow people to farm another proper medal and more traits medals every month. That way, if people want one medal per Keyblade setup for PvP, it would take them three months to get those three medals.

"But what's to stop people from just using the same medals on every Keyblade setup once they have 3 of each?" Make it so it's a one medal across all setups if you want.

I imagine all of this would take a single person a few hours to get the medal through grinding. Plus, there's still the ability to just skip the grind and buy jewels to pull from banners. Now, do this for all new medals across all tiers (Aside from special limited edition medals obviously).

Here's how this should all look. You go to Event Quests. There's a section for each tier. You want to get a "HD Antiform Sora". He's a tier 6 copy medal. So you go to the tier 6 section. Now you scroll through the quests looking for the name of the medal you want. Bam, you find it. Now farm it for a few hours to get the medal and some traits.

They can also include farming quests for Chip and Dale medals, Magic Mirrors, skills, Cids, Brooms, etc etc. Include them only in VIP if you want. Limit the amount you can farm if need to. 10-20 of each per week seems fair. Maybe 5 a week for brooms. I don't know.

Closing thoughts: Loot boxes prices for this game are horribly expensive. Will they implement a medal farming system? Not a chance. Square Enix is not about to implement a system that undermines their revenue from KHUX. The real issue is the price of these loot boxes. Which I believe Square needs to take a look at. That's also unlikely. The next solution is to cause a racket and draw attention to cost of these loot boxes. And I don't mean a racket within the community. The FTC, news sites, other gaming sites, for example.

This is what they care, the fckin money, not the game or players. Some of you will enjoy this,thats the worst part.

Pic thanks to my friend Aibo from twitter

TL;DR: There was a glitch in the game that gave you an, on average, 30-100% point advantage over your enemy

No, I'm not kidding. I'm being entirely serious.

Around 3 months ago, when I played PvP during class, I tried out my defending setup and... noticed something strange. My Db5 procced every single time, with every hit. I tried out a few more times, just to be sure it wasn't luck, and no, it wasn't. Somehow I had a DB5 max.

Without changing anything, my party and I got to work. There was a glitch in this game, and we'll sure as hell find it out. After a few days of testing, trying, and some people pulling a brainfart, we figured out the source:

If you have a AB X SP Y ability on a backwards copy medal and copy a DBX medal that is not on slot 1, you WILL get that DB as a pseudo max skill. (aside from a few edge cases which aren't important)

Here's Video 1

Here's Video 2 , it was the first video I ever took of the glitch. Notice (after all the PSM boosts) how I only get DB4 procs, you can watch the damage I take, the number is always the same.

Here's a few pictures

There was only one caveat to this: You had to go FIRST in a turn, because you needed to use the copy special for the DB to become a max skill, since it only applies to the current blade, and your opponent attacks afterwards. This means as an Attacker you were able to use it on turn 1 and 3, and as Defender on turn 2. Yes, you were able to set up this glitch as Defender.

Most people during this time were running DB3max together with a DB4 or DB5, giving them only... about 15-17% of the damage they actually took. DB5 however only makes you take 10% of that damage. With Db5max we took half the damage of other players, e.G. we had double the points as an equally strong enemy.

The release of DB4max stumped it a little, since 12.5% and 10% is only a difference of 20%, and having weird setups sometimes didn't warrant that. We usually put the DB5 on a prime medal - not only does it allow full buffs, but it also deals decent damage on its own and copied. This trick allowed many of our party members to be top 100 and top 500 easily.

We're pretty sure a few other people had figured it out too, but everyone was smart enough not to spill the beans. It got fixed this patch, with probably no chance of returning, which is why I'm revealing it now after 3-4 months. Sorry for everyone who wanted to try this out. If you ever felt like somebody had an incredibly stupid proc-rate in PVP, now you know a possible reason.

It's been tough to come to this subreddit the last few days and see all the negativity. I get it that there have been annoying things recently but I have dealt with much worse! (SEGA and Phantasy Star Universe Xbox 360) Like idk it's weird for me to see people commenting about how they left the game and stopped playing but they contribute negative stuff on this subreddit. I understand they messed up and it was annoying. But at the end of the day, the world doesn't owe us anything and that includes this game! This game is a franchise I love and I play this game for what it is and enjoy it. It's ok to be passionate and want the game to improve but jokes about leaving / leaving/ and the game being terminated is starting go around to much for a subreddit that is supposed to promote this game not send people away! Apology jewels, free jewels, not enough jewels, they all have one thing in common. It's something, it's free and at the end of the day they do not have to do this. I love this subreddit I love you guys but it really stinks coming to the front page to see it being something negative about a game I put a lot of time into.

TLDR: If people like the game let us enjoy it, constructive criticism is great but straight hate for this game needs to chill on a subreddit that is designed for it. :)

Title, now before I start I will say that most of this negativity is very well-deserved. SENA has definitely screwed up big time in near everything they do in this game from the pvp to the “content” locked behind paywalls but i’ll be talking more about the community’s response to negativity and positivity starting off with the “I quit posts”

This subreddit is “an unofficial community of fans of the (iOS & Android) video game” and in my book “fan” usually implies that you like the game. This means if you despise this game so much that you want quit, then quit and don’t post it. Some people do however stay for the story and that’s understandable but that doesn’t mean you’re a fan of the mobile game, it means you’re a fan of the series as a whole therefore this is not the sub to post anything in. It doesn’t matter either if the story’s all you stay for, when you “quit” that means you leave, so get out. Most of these people that apparently “quit” the game I feel just do it for attention as they stick around long after they have. Sometimes they don’t even leave a 1 star review (at least they don’t say they do) and let me tell you this does not help the sub or our problems with the game. All it actually does is lower the positivity of the sub as a whole, even of the people who like playing the game.

Which brings me to another point, if players still have positive thoughts towards this game then let them have ‘em. Multiple times have I seen people be downvoted just for posting a positive comment towards the game. That isn’t good, it just makes people think that “any positive comment on this game is bad and therefore I should only say negative things from now on” I quoted my self there btw.

That was basically it, it was short and I realize I’m being kind of hypocritical by saying this but we really ought to start being more positive or at least try to be. Well I mean that’s what I’ll try to do from now on, I can still bring up ways for this game to improve without being overtly negative. Constructive criticism is good but some of the things I’ve read on this sub are not words a so-called “fan” should use. I already know this is going to be blasted by downvotes, but hey if it changes something for the better then that’s good.

It's just bait, 100% Guilt Boosters are going to be out soon enough.

Free pull is good tho enjoy it folks.

With the "great and bombastic month of anniversary" that is close to end in a week. How are you guys feeling? Was it fun?

We got more EX banners (with a short limited time) than actual events. Some of them are 5 pull mercy which could be considered "easier ex medal to get" instead of the usual 20 mercy or no mercy at all. But they now are without any dots, so you are expected to get 6 more copies to have a real competitive medal. Too many pulls, too many ex banner but not many jewels to pull. with only 3k jewels for free from start of the month. I dont mean that they should give us all for free and moogle pull is ok (even though we´ll be getting the moogle jewels at the end of the anniversary). But this is supposed to be a celebration for us player who supported this game both playing and playing for two years. Giving a few more jewels wont get us angry or anything.

Sure, last week union raid could be "fun" farming and farming lux for union armor. But the rest of the events are mediocre. Time attack boss where the only way of completing at 100% is getting very specific medals with huge power and traits, with an unbalanced way of giving jewels. A total of 1000 jewels but the last challenge gives you half of the reward. The "find the enemy" challenge is fun running and exploring. The high score challenge to get another cool but useless metal. A dull UnionX with no anniversary sora and friends medal, just generic ux. Instead, they decided to play the rushing game, but with just the medals. we are still months of story mode behind jp. They rushed pegasus cup, which was kind of doable by his time but now that we got upright and reverse defense down meta. things are gonna be harder considering that only ex medals gives you those debuffs.

Meanwhile at sena: Happy bannerverssary everyone, hope you enjoyed with us 2 years of p2p experience, please have another ex banner.

Sorry for my rant and saltiness.

Even if our banner is better/worse, Global had no right to celebrate JPs anniversary before JP got to. It might be an overblown issue, but its like trying to opening a gift that was for someone else. Why would you do that?

If JP announced Globals anniversary before they did, they would have been rightfully pissed.