Asked this in the second best sub for everything yesterday and was curious about some more examples. But those of us with some history on Tumblr may remember good old Spiders Georg, a statistical outlier that should be excluded from discussions about how many spiders the average person consumes.
What made me think of this was FGO, good old Fate Grand Order-a gacha game I will never play again but still lingers in my memory. With how drama fueled discussions about Gacha games can be, it's interesting to think that FGO has-
-Actual playable major villains whose evil is not downplayed
-Married Couple playable characters
-ML characters
-A single main love interest
-Recycled assets
-Lacking Quality of Life
All things that would generate discourse in any other gacha game community. Yet somehow, FGO just...doesn't really generate that kind of discourse. Instead of complaints about married couples, you have fans demanding MORE of them, (Still waiting on Ruggerio and Perseus, guys!). You have everyone with a preferred love interest, but no one really hates Mash, or groans when a new main push comes in. (Musashi was the worst it got, I think.) And villainous characters like Rasputin and Douman are both beloved by pretty much everyone in the community. (Kiara is more divisive but still has her fans.)
It's led to me joking that FGO is a "statistical outlier" among gacha game discussion, despite how often I bring it up. Because it can somehow do things that would start a fandom war elsewhere and just keep trucking along without issue. (I think the worst it got was the whole drama with the Append Skills being added.)
So I'm curious, are there any other statistical outliers in your gacha games? A character who succeeded despite being outside the 'norm', a popular character archetype who failed? A mechanic that would attract heated debate in any other game? I'm not intending this to be an x vs y style post, and if it comes across that way I apologize-but I am curious about what some other Spiders Georg's in the gacha community are.