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I remember at Jp server, there was an event you could craft full cybernetic set just with splendid phase fibers lol...

@Nathaniel697 let me put it this way, when we can craft 1 random accessory box containing a random accessory from all 3 sets in a single pool, KR event let them craft 3 different boxes with random accessory pool specific to each individual set :^)
As for visual unlocks, my guild had zero hopes for such a luxury from day one

... Yuri? Yuri, stay back! No... No.. NOOOOO-

Like all koreans girls so Yuri got a plastic surgery LOL

I agree with a lot of points in this thread. Closers at the moment is as bad as mobile games, or sometimes even worse than quite a few of them, from a pricing/value standpoint, especially since we aren't even given a lot of free currency (EMP). The pricing for all these premium packs/costumes and unlocks are really high. It's ridiculous that you can buy a $100 (9900 EMP) pack that includes a random full costume and not even get the specific costume variant that you want. Don't even get me started on the insane Washing Machine or 9900 EMP "deals" that don't even offer a random full costume box for the character you open it on.

So many online games include some kind of gacha or lootbox element, and I'm just getting tired of it. Ideally, Bitna's Washing Machine mechanic would not even exist, and we could just buy, if not individual costume pieces by themselves, all the costume sets and all costume variants outright from the cash/EMP shop. This way EME still gets money and we don't have to deal with terrible RNG when trying to get costumes.

I'm hoping EME also adds more ways to at least earn visual unlock slots and rare/signature costumes through events like other regions' servers of Closers.

Is the entire cash shop for this game priced for "whales" or what? the cost of even costumes on this game not only being quite limited to RNG boxes, but the cost of 1 box for a "CHANCE" to get a costume somehow managed to cost nearly x10 the amount that it does for an rng box on Tera, nevermind the fact that you can actually direct purchase a costume for I think it's 990 anyway (more or less depending on the costume, but still).

The fact that I looked at the daily deals section, and for a "chance" to get a "fallen night costume piece" will cost me up to 990, and that's not even for the entire set, that's 10$ just for an attempt to get a single piece, and their "best deal" of 13 attempts will cost up to 100$, I mean...I'm just baffled, I thought games like Blade and Soul and Revelations had expensive costumes and cash shop prices, but this game just completely takes the mess, safe to say that while I may give the game the time of day as it's actually a decent game in it self, En Masse have somehow become worse than gameforge when it comes to pricing.

I feel pretty much the same. I remember they had an event where if you were logged in for 2 hours they gave you a black force costume set. I missed it because it started and ended a day earlier than what their patch notes said (they messed on time zone differences or something). I reached out to support to see if I could still get it since I missed it bc their patch notes info was wrong. They pretty much said sorry you missed it can't help you.

If they would have attempted to make up for their error I would have spent $20 or so for the effort but like you said they pretty much target whales. I'll still play the game but I guess I'm still a little salty from that.

my problem is the complete and total willfull ignoring of the costume section of the cash shop in favor of every update just using bitna, no one likes gacha system.

@Naavs said:

@Nathaniel697 said:

@Naavs said:
I suspect a lot of people dislike gacha system, but that's what makes money - people will spend more and more money to get good items, and I think many whales won't stop until they get said good items, so it's a pretty easy system to make money from.

just in case you didn't know. One man from Japan spend more than 70k$ on gacha in Fate Grand Order. So it really makes money, but it very dangerous for people that can't stop from gambling.

Yes, I'm aware of that - it's basically gambling, you can look up other games that have gacha/lootboxes. They're immoral and dangerous - people fall for these disgusting practices every day in gaming and when you contact support to get back the money - whoops, no refunds for you!

I wish they'd stop these practices but it's what makes the money, they don't care if it's consumer friendly or not.

EDIT : When it comes to farming EMP by casually playing (relating to LeviaHusband comment) it won't happen, ever. That's the main way they make money - the only way to get free EMP is either when the new character is released or you can pray your art will be so good you'll win the contest, other than that don't expect any free EMP

Mobile games are way better with gachas than Closers, not Fate Grand Order though. It have one of the worst (if not the worst) gacha system ever.
And don't forget that "It's not lootboxes, it's SURPRISE MECHANIC!!!" xD))))))

I wish that someday developers at least change this to be more player-friendly, because get rid of it is very good (but it only works for games that you buy to play); F2P games will die without that system, but what is the point to make paywall?
Also, why not sell costume pieces\costumes themselves in the EMP store? 50$(like LeviaHusband says) is gonna get you more money. No one gonna pay around 100$ for 13boxes with chance to get the costumes. Not to mention that all these washing machines still contain trash items