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Go2Fail

In kinda related news, It will now only take 200 rolls to spark in Princess Connect! Re:Dive (Same model with Uma Musume which is also CyGames' IP).

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While I understand that this is not directly related to Granblue (Feels free to remove if you think it's appropriate to), It's very interesting that they're changing the model to follow their new game just after 3 weeks? or so of Uma Musume release.

They probably have been thinking about this for a while. Might get implemented to Granblue? maybe not.

Posted Mar 24, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC

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coy47•

Major difference with priconne is the way they release characters though. On granblue we get 2 real banners a month usually with 2-3 characters. Priconne basically releases 1 maybe 2 characters on a banner and have no set schedule for running prifest or even seasonal reruns.

I assume the theory is if they lower the spark cost they can be a little less generous and people are more likely to blow their jewels on various banners without thinking too hard about it because you can now use the monthly 'deal' to buy 3/4 of a spark.

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TalonrisKaguya character when•

I wonder why, this comes only after a few weeks of them increasing the base rate 3 star from 2.5 to 3% too (which was increased from 2%) to begin with. I just worry this is another Dragalia lost scenario.

It would be really nice to see GBF do a gacha cleanup, there's so much old shit and absolute garbage in it merely masked by generous giveaways. But I sincerely doubt they will given its their most profitable game.

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friskander•

This is probably to get it in line with Uma musume, which from what I have seen is the new big hit in jp.

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tsumiodas•

I just worry this is another Dragalia lost scenario

do you mind explaning this to me? haven't played dragalia in a long time, or do you just mean the overabundance of shit in useless summons etc in the gacha pool

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Adrinalin90•

Nah, they gutted the wyrmite and free tickets income heavily after the introduction of sparking in Dragalia. You still get a decent amount and Dragalia imo also has one of the most "player-friendly" gachas, but the community is still pretty pissed about it. For example, daily event rewards now usually are like 20k gold and some honey, but no tickets or wyrmite in most cases. Also no ticket drops from event quests.

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Falsus•

Keep in mind that Dragalia Lost isn't a KMR game whereas both Priconne and GBF is (among others).

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Adrinalin90•

I actually did not even make any connection to either Nintendo or KMR or anything. The question was what happened in Dragalia and I answered that one. If the decision to reduce income and tickets will as made my cygames or Nintendo I can’t say, although I can’t really see Big N meddling in this, as they don’t seem to give a damn about their own property in the first place.

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fkurngesus•

how do you know it was cygames decision and not nintendo to cut wyrmite and free ticket income?

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Ifightformyblends•

Im inclined to believe it wasn't Nintendo doing this by looking at FEH - they got sparking too, and the game has only been getting dramatically more generous since.

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Falsus•

Nintendo is only the global publisher for it. Cygames is still the JP publisher and developer. So Nintendo doesn't really have much say in it.

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Expandee•

after dragalia lost got sparks there was a massive cut to the amount of free pulls you could get to compensate (50% less is the number ive seen frequently)

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gangler52•

Though from what I understand, that only took it down to about GBF levels of free currency. You can spark every few months basically.

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Hermit__IX•

Don't forget that they they have 0.5% ssr rate increase every 10 pulls you didn't get one. So it's less unlikely to go with 3-4 ssrs within spark there.

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Endgam•

I'm pretty sure the fuckery in Dragalia Lost is because of Nintendo.

See: all the shit they've pulled in Fire Emblem Heroes.

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Fatso666•

Probably because you never roll on priconne outside of prifes and limited

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Cornuthaumbea is the ideal wifeform•

so... like gbf?

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Altherion•

Priconne is a little different because you only get 3 or 4 'galas' a year and there are units that are prifest only. So, most people hoard resources and just roll then, or if there's a limited they really want. Its like GBF, but at the same time, people tend to roll a lot less frequently than in GBF. Gacha is also only character based, so dupes just end up giving you amulets you can use to purchase shards to enhance character star rarity. Additionally, most or all regular gacha characters can be earned via farming their shards, (they are all available for purchase in one of the different shops, or farmable on hard mode nodes, which limit entries to 3 a day) so there's pretty much 0 reason to roll unless you want a character.

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PCBS01•

I doubt it'll ever be implemented in Granblue. Their excuse will be roulette

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Honestly I'd rather have the 200 roll sparks than Gachapin

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xwulfd•

Well if that something happens in a gacha game then there will be a catch later on

I have a feeling that Pricon will get a gacha cards soon since uma musume has cards lol

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frostanon•

What are those?

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Mazaahaarottovampy•

Uma Musume has two gachas. One is the character gacha where you can get 1-, 2- and 3-star horsegirls (same as pricon but with more horse). The other is the support card gacha which contains cards ranging from R to SSR.

Cards are based on a character. They have passive effects, they can grant active skills and they have in-game events which have a large variety of effects and these events are also nice stories about the associated character. You can equip up to 5 of these cards + a friend card.

To put it in simple GBF terms; think of it as if the gacha was split between a character gacha and a weapon+summon gacha.

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wertiuy•

Yep, no fuck that. I hate it when gacha devs split their pull currency like that.

An example of this that I loathe is in Epic 7, where there's 3 total currency used to pull. It's a way to feign generosity by handing out a lot of one of the currency, but hiding the actual usable units behind other currency.

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Mazaahaarottovampy•

I mostly agree with you but just as some clarification, the gacha currency in horse game is carrot gems which is used for both gachas.

From the limited time that it's been out, they haven't really been favouring either gacha more than the other. In fact, they've given out slightly more card freebies which would be the meta gacha where most of the power is. They could change their strategy pretty easily though so it's just a matter of waiting it out for now.

They've also been releasing a new 3* and a card of each rarity each week which isn't sustainable for the company to produce, for the players to roll and for the gacha to contain (high amount of bloat).

Once everything settles and we know what we can expect every month in terms of events, gacha rotation and gem income, that is when we can only really judge how generous/greedy the game is.

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sachiotakli•

I think that's fine for it to not be implemented.

At least in my experiences of GBF, F2P Magna have some capacity to compete with Primal, even if not completely 1-on-1. Characters are great to have, but grid power dictates a larger chunk of your ability to play the game

In Umamusume, the game is a bit tough if you don't have your own rarer Umamusu and Support Cards. But being F2P doesn't feel bad unless you are trying to gun for top PvP, since the biggest gameplay loop is actually trying to "build"/"raise" an Umamusu, and not PvP. PvP, imo, is just a playground for the embodiment of your hard work (and RNG) in raising the girls. There are also enough ways to acquire Umamusu outside of gacha, albeit really slow.

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feuillemille•

Oh, great.

not like I have ever met the spark quota over there. And I've ever only spark once since the first time I play gbf. (it's lily, and btw I got her dupe on the next pull.)

Still it is a great news.

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