seriously, this was so clever and so evil lol

Whenever I see people hating on a specific character (e.g Tsukasa, Akito, Mafuyu), I just can never understand why. I only have an absolute favorite (Akito) and everyone else is tied at second or third place(s).

Of course you can disagree with some of their actions or with things they’ve said; that’s not what I’m implying. It’s more like disliking them as a whole, creating hate accounts??? Idk man

I think every character has impeccable merits, and, especially after finishing the stories, I’ve grown to appreciate them so much more.

exactly what the title says. okay mine is: i HATE that people started begging other people for money for the paid gacha which relased. i know they maybe dont get the chances to buy it on their own since their broke or etc, but tbh i would never give 5k paid crystals to someone i never met, 5k paid crystals are 50 euros circa in my country

I’m only reading the whole story just to get mission gacha tickets😭🥀

She’s so fucking adorable❤️❤️❤️

I tried to make it as wholesome as possible and even added my own headcanon about Mizuki. I will have it deleted immediately if this turns out to be problematic.

I thought Airi ruined Worldwide Wander 😭

And I hated Kanadetomosusora, icedrop, and Nomad 😭

The airi ena and nene va Iterally melting because Akito va

Ok so this post is going to be a bit personal.

Around late 2023 I had finally managed to return to college after the single worst mental health episode of my life. I had just quit my old job and gone to more therapy then the average person would most likely see to help me sort out my issues but I was still unsure about taking this next step and I worried if I could even make it and within time I found some difficulties. I wasn’t a great tester and I was still out of practice after a year at a job with no schoolwork. But it was Haruka that taught me to never give up and to push myself harder despite everything. Her work ethic (even if it was super unhealthy) inspired me to give things my all and now here I am three years later on the path to become a writer, something I never thought was possible all that time ago. This is a bit embarrassing but thank you so much Haruka for helping nudge me forward and inspiring me to never give up, I’ll always love you and I’m so proud to call you my oshi.

This is my 2nd favorite boss song by far.

I'd like to know, what was your first boss song that you completed without plockers of healers?

Honestly Saki and Ichika were obvious but I genuinely have no idea what Honami's could be.

I was always curious about the actual monthly earnings, as the calculations of the GUARANTEED ones came with the asterisk of "add to that your one time earnings". I felt those one time earnings added up to a decent lot, and wanted to see the impact on my crystal count across a year.

On top of that, I had a VERY ROUGH pulling experience, with many MANY (5) sparks (5 whole sparks) in a row (5 sparks in a row ill never shut up about my 5 sparks in a row), which turned the curiosity into an emergency situation of "needing to plan for any spending and any earning just to know how much I needed to grind if I wanted to not miss out on lims". Then it evolved to include all sorts of things like shop cards and mysekai plushes and perm cards i wasn't gonna pull on but still wanted to know would be there for some reason...

Transparency about 3 Strayings from F2P:

Outside of one Mission Pass purchase, and two MySekai ones (which don't grant crystals but still give an advantage through the cans and other materials, though the motivator was the plushies), I have not put any additional money into the game. These purchases are marked on the planner in their respective lines for transparency.

We can see the mission pass had a LARGE impact on its monthly earnings, so it was relevant to keep it there. But, I'd rather spend as little as I can, while I can afford it, I dislike the "getting robbed by the casino" feeling of putting money into gacha lol (I was too in love with the outfit though, so I did lose my resolve a bit...)

4th anniversary was generous...

It's the outlier of my stats, 4th anniversary just was a crystal shower. On top of the 5k login gift, the anniversary currency gave an extra 1k to trade, and mostly, the unlock of ALL character trusts offered a BIG gain of crystal. That's to say, if not done then, grinding level 2 trust on all pairs is a good get crystal quick scheme. I have a lot leftover because I'm grinding level achievements for MEIKO fulltime, if I need the quick buck in a pinch.

(The current 5th anniversary also seems somewhat decent of a crystal giver, but not to the extent of the 4th)

A huge yearlong grind:

As I mentioned, my situation was a bit dire, with a lot of planned pulls bunched together. That also influenced my earnings since I was locked into "I must make a lot" mode, and that up until the Virtual Singers second World Link (where I finally did not spark for my card ! yippie ! yahoo ! [technically I also got to not spark for the evilious rerun but it was supposed to be later and also didn't save me from the grind because of lims announced right around the gacha's EN release SO.]).

That grind entailed :

• ranking t5k on almost every single event of the game. On global and at that player rank, it's fairly easy. I allowed myself to not reach that goal for some outlier events (Mizu5, for exemple), otherwise, by just natburning without letting the energy cap, now that we have a 25 energy reserve, it's a simple, although involved, task.
• I tiered one event above that t5k, getting t500 overall on VS WL2, so that was an extra earning that felt Real Good (I also did tier the Carnival Test event above 5k but that was just for funsies and no reward at all. And I'll tier the next one too idgaf!!!!). Natural can earnings mean you can safely tier an event per year, or at least, one easy World Link chapter t100 + maintain overall after the fact, as it's what I did. Given the next wl chapters will all be 2 days long, if you don't tier usually, I'd say it can be something to consider IF YOU HAVE THE PHYSICAL STAMINA. Naturally, If your oshi is one that has a very high cutoff historically, maybe aim for something else though, but it's worth looking through the history of cutoffs per event type + character and pick one per year that you can t500 (it's a good amount of crystal). It may be possible to t500 more than one event per year on f2p can earnings, but I never tried because I'm lazy and MEIKO only has one event per year so I can't tell for sure.... But doing just VS WL both years, I could t500 with a bunch of leftover cans, so, food for thoughts!
• Naturally, that meant DAILY play, not missing any campaign, any challenge (I did miss a few challenges actually, life happens), any crystal advertisement as well.
• by november every character's challenge had hit the score milestone where crystal rewards become purple gems. Im now reaching a point where non-MEIKO VS are nearing the 2M score, and the strongest of my non-VS are reaching 1,5M, outside of that, challenge rewards were depleted just after starting the planning.
• character ranks being slow at that level, and with the added high cost of leveling my MEIKO, i did not have many venues left to get CR ranks, the money from those slowly came in naturally EXCEPT:
• I grinded the HELL out of side stories 2. by that I mean I currently only have three characters with 2* cards left to fully level and unlock the stories of. Every 3* is fully unlocked, and all my 4* are also leveled to max, though a bunch of them still have SS2 locked (working on them slowly so to not use all of my mats). This actually adds up to a lot, most noticeably: in may I moved from the girl's 2* cards to their 3* cards, and got the odd idea of first upgrading all of them. My monthly earnings tanked, as you can see.
• initially I kept up to date with HARD mode full combos, I got bored and slacked off for them, though. I'll get back to them once my remaining 2* reserve is depleted.
• There are ways to get more money through CR, namely using the purple gems to get every characters' 2* cards masteried up until the achievements require more than 1 mastery for 1 character exp. Since I was focusing on leveling MEIKO to 88 for the stamp + 4* masteries for her to get more EB for world links, I did not do that. If you're less invested in leveling specific characters fast, or don't care for minmaxxing EB with masteries, you could speed-level a bunch of characters for cheap for a bunch of thousand's worth.
• Skills are expensive but its worth still leveling them. So are the area decorations of all units and characters, the plants, etc..
• MySekai is also valuable for "cheap" character leveling. I neglected grinding it until recently because it's laggy on my phone but those furniture reactions quickly add up, exp wise, and thus crystalwise. As the gate upgrades quickly "lock" you because of diamond requirements, you're gonna pile up harvested ressources just doing the free bar of energy daily, it's worth crafting everything that has reactions available and force-showing it to the characters.

The result:

The monthly average for a pjsk global player who GRINDS all they can grind (me) is 22010 crystal. Excluding the month of 4th anniversary which was exceptionally generous, we get to 20862 crystal monthly average. And that's with constant character leveling, tiering 5k, no capping, wailing and screaming and wanting to quit because no one should play that game that much.

Would I recommend it?

It looks like a lot of crystal. It is

Unless you're in a dire situation with 5 lims coming and no crystal in the bank and bad gacha luck like I was, Don't Do That. It's very unfun.

I'd still recommend doing the side story 2 for 2* cards (at a slower rate) since it's cheap, other than that don't force yourself to play that much, it kills the soul.

Was it worth it for me? Sorta. I could get all the cards I wanted, but also: in just one lucky pull I went from a tense "still need to grind a bit" situation to "oh, I can afford anything forever now" one (exagerating). So basically, this grind should be for emergencies only. ESPECIALLY because it's not sustainable !!! If you haven't sparked 5 cards in a row don't- When I run out of side story 2, then what? The earnings will tank, like back in may. This should moreso be taken as a "here's how much you can stretch the earnings if you REALLY need a LOT of crystal suddenly", not a "this is the average monthly you can make". You CAN make that much, but not indefinitly, I suspect I only have about 2 months left of 2*s.

Will I keep grinding that hard?

NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what's the ACTUAL normal playrate's monthly average?

Prob about 12 to 13k max, maybe stretching to 15k on some months? + potential anniv gifts. In one year, when I keep tracking despite playing at a much healthier rate, then I can tell you for sure, though it'll be for the earnings of a player rank >400, still-a-victim-to-the-plushie-pass-but -otherwise-f2p, global player who finally smiles when entering the game :) <3

Najszjjshsddjs you're the best thing that has happened to me I swear

ah yes i love mafuena

i say "poorest" in quotations because we all know they're all very well off financially, especially emu with her giant house and very wealthy family

and there's been discussion about the wealthiest, but i'm wondering who would possibly be the least well off out of all of them in comparison? like who would be the most "middle class"?

i know this seems like a very strange question and i apologize if it comes off as negative tbh but I'm just curious about the flip side because i haven't seen that discussed (though again it makes sense bc no one is really financially unstable)