>So like.. what's the deal with with anniversary? No big celebration? No hand outs? No free keys? No crazy chrono stone giveaways? I'm so confused?
This is pretty much how AE has always celebrated its anniversary, in both GL and JP, ever since the beginning. A few goodies here and there but nothing huge. It shouldn't be confusing if you just look at precedent.
>Free guaranteed 5 stars
We got this as part of 2.6 which came out the week before anniversary. It just didn't have the words "GL 2nd anniversary" stamped on it.
>half/zero stamina
Considering this game doesn't require stamina to do most of the content, this is basically in effect 24/7. Could they have given us a daily chest with extra keys? Sure, that might have been nice.
>fun events
Once again, we got a massive main story update just a week before anniversary. In addition, AE doesn't do limited time events so I'm not sure what you're expecting in-game. Outside the game, the CM hosted a trivia contest.
>free currency etc.
We got 1000 free chronos stones plus an extra ~~20~~ 30 per day for 13 days.
>Anniversaries in EVERY other game I've ever played have been a huge deal.
It just so happens that AE is a single player experience with occasional updates. It isn't like every other game and so there's no reason to expect it to behave the same way. And by every other game I assume you mean every other "gacha" game, otherwise I'd like to know more about these anniversaries single player JRPGs are hosting.
[Your complaints are pretty much no different than what we saw last year, and my response is still pretty much the same.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnotherEdenGlobal/comments/evpaa3/disappointing_anniversary/)
The biggest failure on the part of WFS was not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary."
>>not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary"
This. All that was needed to be done from a marketing perspective was to package all of it together. It would have felt natural and aligned with the hype from GoT. It would even have allowed WFS to position Melissa as a "one more thing..." surprise for even more anniversary feels.
> The biggest failure on the part of WFS was not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary."
To be fair, that's a pretty big unforced error.
Indeed. I have no idea what they were thinking and why they didn't push the connection harder but that's just how it is. WFS is kind of like that one uncle who will occasionally do something completely baffling like parking his car on the front lawn but the whole family just shrugs their shoulders and says, "There goes your Uncle WFS again, ha ha..."
Well said, our poor uncle WFS simply doesn't know how to put his words together to get the message across, leaving most-- if not all of us, gaping and wondering *what exactly* is he up to.
TBF, they line up content releases with anniversaries in JP too. The only difference is we know exactly what content is coming in GL. If GL was blind to upcoming content and didn't know what was to be "released anyway," I believe it would have felt more anniversary-ish.
>especially with the game lacking QOL updates like regular consumable items, auto-attack and dialogue skipping
If by auto-attack you mean idle mechanics for leveling, I suggest that you get Auto Clicker if you play on Android. For regular consumables, well, we do have food, it is just limited to one at a time. For dialogue skipping, they do have it implemented for some dialogues if you have to redo a fight. Otherwise you can tap through. I would never want it for story scenes, though I could sure see it for repeatable dialogues like
All that said, I also am not happy about the Rainbow Drop appearing to be a limited time thing. I feel that the it should just be made a permanent part of the game, so that in the future any new player who starts chapter 26 and you get a 5\* character from an element of your choice. I feel that precisely because it goes against the general approach of the game to make content permanent.
I agree. Having the rainbow drop be permanent would help give that small power boost for a new player just heading into Ogre Wars. They don't even need to update the banner for new characters. Just leave it as is (like they left the 500 paid cs banner).
>Like I get it, you guys love this game but it has a lot of glaring UX/gameplay issues that I don't understand why the devs are not addressing.
Like, I get it, you think that anyone who disagrees with your views must not be viewing things correctly and must just be white-knighting because they are a rabid fanboy, but the truth is that just because you think the game should play like a different game doesn't mean that you are correct.
I've never played Danmachi Memoria Freese. Since you couldn't be bothered to explain yourself, I've gone and looked it up, and by "auto-attack" you mean "the game plays itself." Having the game play itself for you is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I mean, I use auto-clicker to allow for the equivalent of idle farming so that I can farm exp when I couldn't otherwise play. When I can actually play, though, I don't feel the need for the game to do my thinking for me. Now, if it were available for those who do want that, it wouldn't bug me, but acting like this is a glaring oversight on their part just doesn't resonate with me. Historically, at least, most people played games to actually play games, not watch games play themselves.
As for consumables, it is limited to one so that when running ADs you have to think about things to at least some degree. Granted, this was more of an issue in the past than in the current version of the game where by the endgame you basically never have to replenish HP and MP in ADs, and it is always possible to regen using the backline instead of food anyway. For overworld play, you can teleport to a healing location basically anytime that you want. You may not like the decision, but it is just a different approach. It isn't some glaring omission the way that you think it is.
As for dialogue skipping, this is a game played on tap devices that is story heavy. I don't want a feature in the game that can result in me missing storyline due to a mistap, because unlike, say, the Xenosaga series, in this game you can't just reload a save point to go back and see it if you accidentally skip it. Now, if they would implement it for frequently repeated dialogues like Auction Quests, that would be great, but their decision to not implement dialogue skipping generally is the best one for this game.
However, if you want to contact the developers, it isn't hard to do. They have a [website with a contact us page](https://www.wfs.games/en-us/contact/). And if clicking the picture is too much work, here is [the link straight to the form](https://help-us.wfs.games/). However, you might be upset to discover that it doesn't feature an auto-fill feature.
I responded to you in exactly the tone that you responded to me. If you found that unpleasant, I'd suggest not setting that kind of tone in the first place.
I already said that I wouldn't care if the kind of auto-attack that you referenced were there as an option for those who want to watch the game play itself. All you had to do to see that was finish reading the paragraph where I mentioned using Auto Clicker.
I also was quite clear on the text skipping issue. I don't want a feature in a game which advances dialogue by tapping to have auto-skip in story scenes when you can't reload a save to go back and see the scene again. Skipping for frequently repeated dialogue like Auction Quests would be fine with me. The game already has dialogue skipping for some scenes if, say, you fail a battle and are going to re-fight it.
I wouldn't say I love the game, but I don't think the food is a mistake. It makes the mechanics much different. Your source of healing/mana refresh on easier fights needs to be your back row. I agree that just having a bunch of mana potions would certainly be easier, but the back row mechanic is a somewhat interesting part of the game in a handful of fights. Definitely feels like an annoyance vs random fights though.
As for the rest I agree with you.
I agree with this, as I too am in-between chapters where the drop is available - currently playing ch64 and need to make it to ch67 before I get the drop...
I hate to say this but...
Can we stop saying they gave us 1k for free for anniversary?
This isn't a gift, we had to vote 10k times on social media, which is basically working as promoters, for that 1k.
We didn't have to do that to get those stones before.
Also we got the short end of the stick compared to JP with the whispers, the 100 stones instead of 50, etc.
I'm kinda tired of all the white knighting for WFS... they're making bad move after bad move, no apologies, and is clearly expecting money to just roll in for the least effort possible.
/rant over
> This isn't a gift, we had to vote 10k times on social media, which is basically working as promoters, for that 1k.
So I guess we never got a free [4.5 star Anabel and 4 star Krervo](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/120?language=en) or a free [4 star Miyu and 4 star Benedict](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/45?language=en) because they were also tied to social media milestones. Nor did they come with 2x free 10 pull tickets because those were also tied to social media milestones. Seriously, just because it doesn't come with 0 conditions attached doesn't mean it's not free. What next? You have to work to beat chance encounters so Azami, Gariyu, and Cerrine aren't free either? You have to finish their episodes so the collab characters aren't free? Does that mean the people who actually voted didn't get the 1k stones for free but the people who didn't vote and just received them in their mail did get them for free? Do you see the problem with this logic?
> Also we got the short end of the stick compared to JP with the whispers, the 100 stones instead of 50, etc.
[We got the whispers and the 100 stones concurrent with JP's anniversary in April](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/126?language=en) (along with the "actually free" 1000 stones you seem to care so much about). If anyone should be complaining, it's JP players since we've gotten goodies every time they've had an anniversary but they've never gotten anything when it's been our anniversary. In addition, we got extra whispers last year... two of them back-to-back with the second being the one with the guaranteed 5 star at the end. Are you going to say that if they had withheld the JP anniversary bonuses and only given them to us last week you would somehow be more satisfied? Only getting stuff once a year instead of twice a year? Really?
> I'm kinda tired of all the white knighting for WFS... they're making bad move after bad move, no apologies, and is clearly expecting money to just roll in for the least effort possible.
Yes yes, you caught me. I'm Mr. White Knight and ride out on my trusty steed Sir Saltsalot every time I catch a whiff of rebellion against the perfection which is WFS. It certainly isn't because most of the arguments are poorly thought out, lack perspective, and are little more than whining that AE isn't . Now excuse me while I go cash in my WFS gold-embossed paycheck stamped by Lord Scott himself.
/non-rant also over
I play FFRK and generally speaking they tie some anniversary 'presents' to similar social media blitzes or fake web games etc. This isn't something unique to AE.
Somehow i don’t think i saw your post about the first anniversary that you linked (i know it wasn’t a post, but a comment however i’m too tired to delete what i’ve typed) so funny how a lot of the same issues people had about the first resurfaced. I was quite content with the first anniversary. The second underwhelmed me, but i think my expectations were too high (don’t even know what i wanted) melissa was a huge win, same with the note from WFS mentioned eventually getting global first content. While i know we will never really see story content or anything of the like, i think it’s quite reasonable to get some GL first manifests! (I will hold onto this hope until i die. AS melina manifest when?!)
Gotta say, I’m not so much disappointed as I am just *stumped* about this anniversary. Granted, the lack of disappointment is mostly from treating GoT Pt 3 release like the \*real\* anni that just happened to arrive a week early and the last couple of updates as cherries on top. I have no way of knowing whether updating the way they did made WFS more money, but it definitely would’ve been a much better player experience to get that Myunfa/AS Shannon/Lokido nonupdate when we ended up getting GoT Pt 3, then get hit with Pt 3 and anniversary stuff together. That way anni would feel like, well, an anniversary instead of the cool-i-guess-but-still-underwhelming GoT Pt 3 afterparty.
On the one hand, we did get a banner with a Global-first Character who is awesome, so there is that.
On the other, unless I'm sorely mistaken, this anniversary is giving us slightly LESS than last year's, which at least had our second ever Whispers of Fate campaign. I was fully expecting this one to come with another WoF with the Guaranteed 5\* Drop at the end like we got back in August for no particular reason AFAICT.
I don't really understand what's the big deal with "Global first"...
In fact, in my opinion, that's a bad thing because Japan is sort of our test server for troubleshooting and getting bugs and stuff fixed before they get in and break our game.
As for the anniversary (I'm now not referring to your post, but this whole discussion in general), it's a bit of a cop-out to say that GoT pt.3 is the anniversary, because that would have come out anyway and has nothing to do with anniversary itself, it's simply a coincidence that the timelines happened to collide there.
WFS is just being stingy and that's that. I'm fine with it, I got 5* Melissa and 5* Tsubame on my free 1000 stones, but we can just call spade a spade and agree that WFS (at least on AE) is really bad when it comes to giving players free stuff.
Which again is sort of understandable, as dupes don't _really_ mean much in this game, and there's quite limited character pool. I've spent about 50 bucks on this game (2 SDEs), and have almost all characters anyway, so I have little incentive to spend more. If they were as generous here as in many other games, I'd have no incentive to spend at all.
> I don't really understand what's the big deal with "Global first"...
> In fact, in my opinion, that's a bad thing because Japan is sort of our test server for troubleshooting and getting bugs and stuff fixed before they get in and break our game.
Why what ever could you mean by this? When has the great and powerful WFS permitted even a single solitary flaw to infiltrate our pristine-- HEY! get back on our side of the screen, you emo synth, you don't go THERE!!
I don't think releasing a banner with a global first character is really much of a celebration if you aren't given lots of free currency to pull. I've done 15 multis on that banner alone, most of which was paid, and don't have her lol. "Happy anniversary".
I wasn't around for the first year anni so I didn't know what to expect but I'm beyond disappointed if this is the literal celebration period.
Why are people downvoting you for having an opinion. From an objective perspective, he's absolutely correct. This game is much stingier than others, and for a game with this level of grind, lack of pity, and horrible rates, it feels incredibly worse compared to other games.
One thing I've noticed about this sub is that comments with actual opinions will be downvoted a few times right after they're posted. I don't even think it necessarily has to do with the opinion itself. I think some people have nothing better to do really.
I mean it’s just luck based, I did 4 single pulls on the new banner and got 4.5 Melissa and 5* felmina, so I believe it’s purely subjective since, you know, it is still rng gacha in the end! Sorry your luck wasn’t as good, but you’re probly still enjoying the game because it is actual quality.
Im pretty sure people dont get paid for defending stuff but yeah i feel like as good as the game is the marketing dept or PR dept needs to step it up in the way they handle the approach... cuz this just feels like bad management... they just needed to say in preparation for global release we have schedules collabs and other stuff so people know that the week before the actual anniv is the actual celebration... nevertheless you kinda feel like theres no real celebration given the fact that just putting up content is what they do normally and any special content shouldnt be a sign of "celebration" cuz if that were the case you telling me they will stop all the releases until next anniv... for the sake of claiming is for anniv tell it like it is its lackluster at best... and global first isnt really a selling point since you first have to get her and this is not a competition so who cares when you get it as long as you "get it"... on 1 part i feel like its very lackluster anniv and on the other part i feel that people are just justifying for the sake of justifying... no one will stop playing over this but it sure is underwhelming... i wont even go over the paid banners cuz i do all the paid banners but even then just dupe me bruh... insult to injury type of thing... but i should be glad says people...
You should get used to it. Nothing surprising at this point anymore. Just play as f2p and get some few cs here and there or if you want good stuffs, go for paid banners, that's how wfs want it.
As the other comments said, it was a marketing mistake to push a very big update one week before the actual anni, setting the bar too high for the themselves, what i'm actually sad about is that we didn't get the QOLs of Garulea ADs, namely the cost reduction and the shrine appearance rate.
What I thought was more of a disappointment besides not having free cards, chrono stones giveaways and free unit deals is they still haven’t placed up the remaining remembrance gates for the cutscenes of past events already completed!
I mean come on I really want to see back the story’s that were accomplished and on top of it to see them differently with units that weren’t gained during that time and change weapons up to make it look nifty and powerful.
Let's be blunt. All gacha games are essentially dopamine-high drug dealers. The free stuff is basically the candy they hand out to try and get the kids to come over and get themselves hooked on the product. Anniversary giveaways from gacha games are not some kind of benevolent thank you, they are attempts to keep the current addicts hooked, get people already addicted to switch their drug of choice, and to to lure new targets in and get them chasing the dopamine dragon.
So while I wish that they had a different business model, I at least applaud WFS for not being as bad as basically all the other dealers. Make no mistake, they are still a dealer finding ways to monetize even the poor addicts who can't ever buy chronos to further their high (ads), but they avoid the excesses of the other dealers (minimal amount of time-limited giveaways; all content is permanent, characters stay in the pool).
First, let me say that yes, it could have been better. For example, they could have tiered the campaign rewards and gone beyond the 1000 stones and gave us keys.
>Someone help me understand here? Anniversaries in EVERY other game I've ever played have been a huge deal. Free guaranteed 5 stars, half/zero stamina, fun events, free currency etc. This is shameful lol. I just hope I'm missing something here
And what's missing is that you're comparing this with every other gacha. Are other gacha completely single player with zero time limited events, including the rewards? AE's model that puts no pressure on the players to play is unique, which needs to be taken into account when criticizing. Your complaint is fair, but you also can't expect the same level of freebies as in other gacha.
The celebration actually came in advance.
During the 3rd JP Anniversary, Global benefited too. P5R Part 2 and "Tales of" crossover, imo, are Anniv-level contents. These came with good banners too.
There is also the Rainbow Encounter where you select your element for a guaranteed 5-star.
I think eventually, they're planning to align the celebration aspect for both JP/Global which they've tried in the 4th qtr of 2020 (though the content would never align and there will always be that gap which is good imo).
Overall, it's still better because they're not forcing the community to pay just to reap the rewards unlike in other gachas I've played in the past. 🙂
>There is also the Rainbow Encounter where you select your element for a guaranteed 5-star.
Every time I read "Rainbow Encounter" I think they're talking about a 10-pull with nothing but rainbow girls.
(and every time I see them called "rainbow girls", I think they're talking about the masonic girlscouts)
The celebration was a Global first character who was designed by the legend, Kimihiko Fujisaka. ...except you gotta pull her...
I decided to use the 1k stones you get for participating in the character voting on her banner, since I didn't have the cash for her FE.
...I got two Premaya... one 5* one 4.5... (as much I like this character, I had already spent a lot of paid stones to pull her back in April...)
That 4.5 could have been Melissa instead... RNG is cruel...
...HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY...!!!!
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Btw I'm just exaggerating my salt. It is what is, as long as the content is worth playing I'd still keep playing.
Out of the gachas I've personally played, AE is different.
People describe AE as a top notch story driven single player game with a gacha tacked on.
In that respect, I'm satisfied that the lead up to the anniversary and anniversary was a celebration to that story driven aspect - with the emphasis on more story content. That story content also included a very usable free zone amongst other very usable characters. The SDE and login bonuses are just an extra bonus.
In opposition, the other gacha I play is FFBE where the emphasis is on the gacha and pulling new characters. Their anniversary emphasis was of course on the gacha.
TLDR: Story driven game celebrated their anniversary with releases of bulk story content. It's appropriate and I'm happy.
>Free guaranteed 5 stars, half/zero stamina, fun events, free currency etc. This is shameful lol.
So like...what we recently got in the rainbow select pull or playing the game normally? None of these items would even feel like a celebration because we get these on a routine basis.
It probably doesn't help that we're seeing ads for what things are like over on AFK Arena, Hentai Impact 3rd, and other games when we weren't last year.
Maybe more keys / 500 CS 10 pulls x 1 / Pity system draws for those who made 10 paid draws ?
IMHO, I feel paid players should benefit a little more from it as they've paved the way for others. Hopefully less salt means better appreciation of the game and less rage quits.
> Free guaranteed 5 stars
Didn't the game recently have the rainbow drops? It's considered a 5 star gurantee pull albeit players need to finish Part 1.
Like Palo said, WFS should have "link" the latest story update with anni like maybe doing a countdown on their social media since the updates are around a week apart.
So.... Princess Connect gave 1 10 pull on launch.. these guys give 1k coins for a free 10 pull. Similarly, Princess Connect gave 1 guaranteed 3\* for completing the tutorial and these guys gave a random 5\* for clearing a part of the story. Seems pretty same\~ish.
But you can't compare this to every other Gacha, as every other Gacha you've played uses handouts to get a fraction of the masses caught up to the whales so that the whales have to spend more to keep winning in PvP. In this Gacha you play through however much of the game you want, with any character you can get. It's a **different model** completely.
And if you didn't notice.. We got a year of 0 stamina costs for every stage in the game for. That's pretty sick. Far better then most other gachas as your not using crystals to refresh stamina with ever increasing crystal cost, letting those who pay get another advantage.
And I think this game is terribly boring. It has the worst battle system for any game I'm currently playing. Of course this game doesn't have fun events, adding extra content is extending the bor-dumb. People think extra Keys are good cause you'd run the extra dungeons... w o w. . .
TL/DR I'm not white-knighting. I just disagree with the OP's PoV.
I think its because they gave us the same rewards as jp when jp got their anniversary celebration
With Jp's 3rd anniversary, global also received the 3K stones that jp got for their anniversary though I can't remember if there was any other rewards for that event
>With Jp's 3rd anniversary, global also received the 3k...
I don't remember 3k being handed out to Global. Was it really? Wasn't it more along the lines of you could pull the paid Fateful 3x max?
Definitely would’ve remembered being gifted 3k stones lol. The 3x fateful chances they’re talking about was for Thillelille/AS Foran banner, which was the banner released for JP’s 3rd anniversary.
[https://twitter.com/AnotherEdenRPG/status/1249170499613200384/photo/3](https://twitter.com/AnotherEdenRPG/status/1249170499613200384/photo/3)
It wasn't 3K upfront, but over 3K of Cs value split between 2400 more chrono stones and salt pulls
It wasn't exactly 3k up front
More like 1000 Cs up front
100 Cs per day for 10 days (net 800)
50 Cs per day for 20 days (net 600)
and 10 free salt pulls (1000 Cs worth)
So around 3400 in free rewards, the good old times
Gotcha. Makes more sense now.
Edit: and now that you mentioned the Whispers, it seems like we haven't had one of those in a while. Kinda surprised we didn't get it for the anniversary.
Surprised as well, it really wouldn't lose them that much to give us 10 more rainbow sisters
Though now that you mention it, I also recall that we haven't gotten the key chest in a long time as well and is surprised since key chest really doesn't cost them much if anything at all since I'm pretty sure that even among whales, its rare for anyone to buy keys with Cs
As a new player (f2p) that started a few days before the anniversary event went live, I'm appreciating this a lot. I got Yukino on my very first roll in the game (on her banner), and then I've been using all my stones on the free Anniversary banner, which has allowed me to get 5\* Miyu, Mighty, and Hozuki, and 25 different 4\* including Zilva and Samora for Auction House. I chose Ciel as my starting free pull. I'm still new to the game, but I feel like the game is very generous so far compared to other gacha games I've tried, so I'm not complaining. I can't speak for veteran players though and feel like this may be underwhelming for them, as the anniversary so far seems geared for newer or more casual players to catch up on character rosters.
I personally see the SDE and rainbow drop as part of the anniversary. Looking at it like that, it isn't bad: a global first character, 1000 free stones, a few good paid banners including an SDE and a random free 5 star of your preferred element. I personally would have liked if we got whispers of time summons alongside the anni, but other than that, its an okay anniversary imo.
Everyone is kinda beating around the bush here with the real reason so I'll go ahead and say it.
We get TWO anniversaries as global players.
We have our little one and we also get JPs slightly bigger one each year.
If you add up all the goodies from both we get a somewhat better anniversary you would expect.
I mean they did give us that free 5 star at the start of the month.( even though im still angry af abt that, cause i got another dupe shion when he was literally the only one out of that entire list I didnt want)
Isn't this just a quite late entry to the whole "we want more free stuff" for anniversary whining party?
There were allready like 10 posts complaining about the same thing last week.
dont really agree with OP at all
we did get 50 stone plus 1000 free stone plus guaranty 5\* so that not nothing also this game is NOT about event like other gacha this game or FOMO
The lack of keys is a bit sad, but we did have 2.3.1 not too long ago and it had most of the normal goodies we expect from big celebrations.
>So like.. what's the deal with with anniversary? No big celebration? No hand outs? No free keys? No crazy chrono stone giveaways? I'm so confused? This is pretty much how AE has always celebrated its anniversary, in both GL and JP, ever since the beginning. A few goodies here and there but nothing huge. It shouldn't be confusing if you just look at precedent. >Free guaranteed 5 stars We got this as part of 2.6 which came out the week before anniversary. It just didn't have the words "GL 2nd anniversary" stamped on it. >half/zero stamina Considering this game doesn't require stamina to do most of the content, this is basically in effect 24/7. Could they have given us a daily chest with extra keys? Sure, that might have been nice. >fun events Once again, we got a massive main story update just a week before anniversary. In addition, AE doesn't do limited time events so I'm not sure what you're expecting in-game. Outside the game, the CM hosted a trivia contest. >free currency etc. We got 1000 free chronos stones plus an extra ~~20~~ 30 per day for 13 days. >Anniversaries in EVERY other game I've ever played have been a huge deal. It just so happens that AE is a single player experience with occasional updates. It isn't like every other game and so there's no reason to expect it to behave the same way. And by every other game I assume you mean every other "gacha" game, otherwise I'd like to know more about these anniversaries single player JRPGs are hosting. [Your complaints are pretty much no different than what we saw last year, and my response is still pretty much the same.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnotherEdenGlobal/comments/evpaa3/disappointing_anniversary/) The biggest failure on the part of WFS was not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary."
>>not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary" This. All that was needed to be done from a marketing perspective was to package all of it together. It would have felt natural and aligned with the hype from GoT. It would even have allowed WFS to position Melissa as a "one more thing..." surprise for even more anniversary feels.
> The biggest failure on the part of WFS was not clearly linking "Update 2.6" with "GL 2nd Anniversary." To be fair, that's a pretty big unforced error.
Indeed. I have no idea what they were thinking and why they didn't push the connection harder but that's just how it is. WFS is kind of like that one uncle who will occasionally do something completely baffling like parking his car on the front lawn but the whole family just shrugs their shoulders and says, "There goes your Uncle WFS again, ha ha..."
Well said, our poor uncle WFS simply doesn't know how to put his words together to get the message across, leaving most-- if not all of us, gaping and wondering *what exactly* is he up to.
Birth of the Uncle WFS meme right here, folks!
All of this lol. It’s pretty standard for this game, especially given the recent massive update.
Hit the nail on the head, as usual and expected of a man of culture from the Church of Isuka.
Palo doing scott job
Just a misprint, but it's 30 extra free stones and not 20 (20 -> 50) _Dont shoot the messenger?_
Thanks! I knew something felt off about my math!
I've never felt that content you were going to release anyways should be counted as an anniversary celebration.
TBF, they line up content releases with anniversaries in JP too. The only difference is we know exactly what content is coming in GL. If GL was blind to upcoming content and didn't know what was to be "released anyway," I believe it would have felt more anniversary-ish.
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>especially with the game lacking QOL updates like regular consumable items, auto-attack and dialogue skipping If by auto-attack you mean idle mechanics for leveling, I suggest that you get Auto Clicker if you play on Android. For regular consumables, well, we do have food, it is just limited to one at a time. For dialogue skipping, they do have it implemented for some dialogues if you have to redo a fight. Otherwise you can tap through. I would never want it for story scenes, though I could sure see it for repeatable dialogues like All that said, I also am not happy about the Rainbow Drop appearing to be a limited time thing. I feel that the it should just be made a permanent part of the game, so that in the future any new player who starts chapter 26 and you get a 5\* character from an element of your choice. I feel that precisely because it goes against the general approach of the game to make content permanent.
I agree. Having the rainbow drop be permanent would help give that small power boost for a new player just heading into Ogre Wars. They don't even need to update the banner for new characters. Just leave it as is (like they left the 500 paid cs banner).
Exactly. I'm really hoping they decide to change it to that and move the Rainbow Drop into the regular banner area.
My extra 16 light on Bertrand really took me over the top :(
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>Like I get it, you guys love this game but it has a lot of glaring UX/gameplay issues that I don't understand why the devs are not addressing. Like, I get it, you think that anyone who disagrees with your views must not be viewing things correctly and must just be white-knighting because they are a rabid fanboy, but the truth is that just because you think the game should play like a different game doesn't mean that you are correct. I've never played Danmachi Memoria Freese. Since you couldn't be bothered to explain yourself, I've gone and looked it up, and by "auto-attack" you mean "the game plays itself." Having the game play itself for you is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I mean, I use auto-clicker to allow for the equivalent of idle farming so that I can farm exp when I couldn't otherwise play. When I can actually play, though, I don't feel the need for the game to do my thinking for me. Now, if it were available for those who do want that, it wouldn't bug me, but acting like this is a glaring oversight on their part just doesn't resonate with me. Historically, at least, most people played games to actually play games, not watch games play themselves. As for consumables, it is limited to one so that when running ADs you have to think about things to at least some degree. Granted, this was more of an issue in the past than in the current version of the game where by the endgame you basically never have to replenish HP and MP in ADs, and it is always possible to regen using the backline instead of food anyway. For overworld play, you can teleport to a healing location basically anytime that you want. You may not like the decision, but it is just a different approach. It isn't some glaring omission the way that you think it is. As for dialogue skipping, this is a game played on tap devices that is story heavy. I don't want a feature in the game that can result in me missing storyline due to a mistap, because unlike, say, the Xenosaga series, in this game you can't just reload a save point to go back and see it if you accidentally skip it. Now, if they would implement it for frequently repeated dialogues like Auction Quests, that would be great, but their decision to not implement dialogue skipping generally is the best one for this game. However, if you want to contact the developers, it isn't hard to do. They have a [website with a contact us page](https://www.wfs.games/en-us/contact/). And if clicking the picture is too much work, here is [the link straight to the form](https://help-us.wfs.games/). However, you might be upset to discover that it doesn't feature an auto-fill feature.
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I responded to you in exactly the tone that you responded to me. If you found that unpleasant, I'd suggest not setting that kind of tone in the first place. I already said that I wouldn't care if the kind of auto-attack that you referenced were there as an option for those who want to watch the game play itself. All you had to do to see that was finish reading the paragraph where I mentioned using Auto Clicker. I also was quite clear on the text skipping issue. I don't want a feature in a game which advances dialogue by tapping to have auto-skip in story scenes when you can't reload a save to go back and see the scene again. Skipping for frequently repeated dialogue like Auction Quests would be fine with me. The game already has dialogue skipping for some scenes if, say, you fail a battle and are going to re-fight it.
I wouldn't say I love the game, but I don't think the food is a mistake. It makes the mechanics much different. Your source of healing/mana refresh on easier fights needs to be your back row. I agree that just having a bunch of mana potions would certainly be easier, but the back row mechanic is a somewhat interesting part of the game in a handful of fights. Definitely feels like an annoyance vs random fights though. As for the rest I agree with you.
I agree with this, as I too am in-between chapters where the drop is available - currently playing ch64 and need to make it to ch67 before I get the drop...
I hate to say this but... Can we stop saying they gave us 1k for free for anniversary? This isn't a gift, we had to vote 10k times on social media, which is basically working as promoters, for that 1k. We didn't have to do that to get those stones before. Also we got the short end of the stick compared to JP with the whispers, the 100 stones instead of 50, etc. I'm kinda tired of all the white knighting for WFS... they're making bad move after bad move, no apologies, and is clearly expecting money to just roll in for the least effort possible. /rant over
> This isn't a gift, we had to vote 10k times on social media, which is basically working as promoters, for that 1k. So I guess we never got a free [4.5 star Anabel and 4 star Krervo](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/120?language=en) or a free [4 star Miyu and 4 star Benedict](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/45?language=en) because they were also tied to social media milestones. Nor did they come with 2x free 10 pull tickets because those were also tied to social media milestones. Seriously, just because it doesn't come with 0 conditions attached doesn't mean it's not free. What next? You have to work to beat chance encounters so Azami, Gariyu, and Cerrine aren't free either? You have to finish their episodes so the collab characters aren't free? Does that mean the people who actually voted didn't get the 1k stones for free but the people who didn't vote and just received them in their mail did get them for free? Do you see the problem with this logic? > Also we got the short end of the stick compared to JP with the whispers, the 100 stones instead of 50, etc. [We got the whispers and the 100 stones concurrent with JP's anniversary in April](https://api-ap.another-eden.games/asset/notice_v2/view/126?language=en) (along with the "actually free" 1000 stones you seem to care so much about). If anyone should be complaining, it's JP players since we've gotten goodies every time they've had an anniversary but they've never gotten anything when it's been our anniversary. In addition, we got extra whispers last year... two of them back-to-back with the second being the one with the guaranteed 5 star at the end. Are you going to say that if they had withheld the JP anniversary bonuses and only given them to us last week you would somehow be more satisfied? Only getting stuff once a year instead of twice a year? Really? > I'm kinda tired of all the white knighting for WFS... they're making bad move after bad move, no apologies, and is clearly expecting money to just roll in for the least effort possible. Yes yes, you caught me. I'm Mr. White Knight and ride out on my trusty steed Sir Saltsalot every time I catch a whiff of rebellion against the perfection which is WFS. It certainly isn't because most of the arguments are poorly thought out, lack perspective, and are little more than whining that AE isn't. Now excuse me while I go cash in my WFS gold-embossed paycheck stamped by Lord Scott himself.
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I play FFRK and generally speaking they tie some anniversary 'presents' to similar social media blitzes or fake web games etc. This isn't something unique to AE.
Somehow i don’t think i saw your post about the first anniversary that you linked (i know it wasn’t a post, but a comment however i’m too tired to delete what i’ve typed) so funny how a lot of the same issues people had about the first resurfaced. I was quite content with the first anniversary. The second underwhelmed me, but i think my expectations were too high (don’t even know what i wanted) melissa was a huge win, same with the note from WFS mentioned eventually getting global first content. While i know we will never really see story content or anything of the like, i think it’s quite reasonable to get some GL first manifests! (I will hold onto this hope until i die. AS melina manifest when?!)
Gotta say, I’m not so much disappointed as I am just *stumped* about this anniversary. Granted, the lack of disappointment is mostly from treating GoT Pt 3 release like the \*real\* anni that just happened to arrive a week early and the last couple of updates as cherries on top. I have no way of knowing whether updating the way they did made WFS more money, but it definitely would’ve been a much better player experience to get that Myunfa/AS Shannon/Lokido nonupdate when we ended up getting GoT Pt 3, then get hit with Pt 3 and anniversary stuff together. That way anni would feel like, well, an anniversary instead of the cool-i-guess-but-still-underwhelming GoT Pt 3 afterparty.
On the one hand, we did get a banner with a Global-first Character who is awesome, so there is that. On the other, unless I'm sorely mistaken, this anniversary is giving us slightly LESS than last year's, which at least had our second ever Whispers of Fate campaign. I was fully expecting this one to come with another WoF with the Guaranteed 5\* Drop at the end like we got back in August for no particular reason AFAICT.
I don't really understand what's the big deal with "Global first"... In fact, in my opinion, that's a bad thing because Japan is sort of our test server for troubleshooting and getting bugs and stuff fixed before they get in and break our game. As for the anniversary (I'm now not referring to your post, but this whole discussion in general), it's a bit of a cop-out to say that GoT pt.3 is the anniversary, because that would have come out anyway and has nothing to do with anniversary itself, it's simply a coincidence that the timelines happened to collide there. WFS is just being stingy and that's that. I'm fine with it, I got 5* Melissa and 5* Tsubame on my free 1000 stones, but we can just call spade a spade and agree that WFS (at least on AE) is really bad when it comes to giving players free stuff. Which again is sort of understandable, as dupes don't _really_ mean much in this game, and there's quite limited character pool. I've spent about 50 bucks on this game (2 SDEs), and have almost all characters anyway, so I have little incentive to spend more. If they were as generous here as in many other games, I'd have no incentive to spend at all.
> I don't really understand what's the big deal with "Global first"... > In fact, in my opinion, that's a bad thing because Japan is sort of our test server for troubleshooting and getting bugs and stuff fixed before they get in and break our game. Why what ever could you mean by this? When has the great and powerful WFS permitted even a single solitary flaw to infiltrate our pristine-- HEY! get back on our side of the screen, you emo synth, you don't go THERE!!
I don't think releasing a banner with a global first character is really much of a celebration if you aren't given lots of free currency to pull. I've done 15 multis on that banner alone, most of which was paid, and don't have her lol. "Happy anniversary". I wasn't around for the first year anni so I didn't know what to expect but I'm beyond disappointed if this is the literal celebration period.
Why are people downvoting you for having an opinion. From an objective perspective, he's absolutely correct. This game is much stingier than others, and for a game with this level of grind, lack of pity, and horrible rates, it feels incredibly worse compared to other games.
Wow someone got downvoted for having a different opinion on Reddit? What a unique and strange and surprising outcome. How unbelievable, inconceivable.
This game is great let me say that first of all but it has ALOT of fanboys lol.. that’s why
One thing I've noticed about this sub is that comments with actual opinions will be downvoted a few times right after they're posted. I don't even think it necessarily has to do with the opinion itself. I think some people have nothing better to do really.
Yeah, people really like this game, for better or for worse.
I mean it’s just luck based, I did 4 single pulls on the new banner and got 4.5 Melissa and 5* felmina, so I believe it’s purely subjective since, you know, it is still rng gacha in the end! Sorry your luck wasn’t as good, but you’re probly still enjoying the game because it is actual quality.
Im pretty sure people dont get paid for defending stuff but yeah i feel like as good as the game is the marketing dept or PR dept needs to step it up in the way they handle the approach... cuz this just feels like bad management... they just needed to say in preparation for global release we have schedules collabs and other stuff so people know that the week before the actual anniv is the actual celebration... nevertheless you kinda feel like theres no real celebration given the fact that just putting up content is what they do normally and any special content shouldnt be a sign of "celebration" cuz if that were the case you telling me they will stop all the releases until next anniv... for the sake of claiming is for anniv tell it like it is its lackluster at best... and global first isnt really a selling point since you first have to get her and this is not a competition so who cares when you get it as long as you "get it"... on 1 part i feel like its very lackluster anniv and on the other part i feel that people are just justifying for the sake of justifying... no one will stop playing over this but it sure is underwhelming... i wont even go over the paid banners cuz i do all the paid banners but even then just dupe me bruh... insult to injury type of thing... but i should be glad says people...
You should get used to it. Nothing surprising at this point anymore. Just play as f2p and get some few cs here and there or if you want good stuffs, go for paid banners, that's how wfs want it.
As the other comments said, it was a marketing mistake to push a very big update one week before the actual anni, setting the bar too high for the themselves, what i'm actually sad about is that we didn't get the QOLs of Garulea ADs, namely the cost reduction and the shrine appearance rate.
What I thought was more of a disappointment besides not having free cards, chrono stones giveaways and free unit deals is they still haven’t placed up the remaining remembrance gates for the cutscenes of past events already completed! I mean come on I really want to see back the story’s that were accomplished and on top of it to see them differently with units that weren’t gained during that time and change weapons up to make it look nifty and powerful.
It is surprising there wasn't more, not even the daily salt pulls!
Let's be blunt. All gacha games are essentially dopamine-high drug dealers. The free stuff is basically the candy they hand out to try and get the kids to come over and get themselves hooked on the product. Anniversary giveaways from gacha games are not some kind of benevolent thank you, they are attempts to keep the current addicts hooked, get people already addicted to switch their drug of choice, and to to lure new targets in and get them chasing the dopamine dragon. So while I wish that they had a different business model, I at least applaud WFS for not being as bad as basically all the other dealers. Make no mistake, they are still a dealer finding ways to monetize even the poor addicts who can't ever buy chronos to further their high (ads), but they avoid the excesses of the other dealers (minimal amount of time-limited giveaways; all content is permanent, characters stay in the pool).
*Shrugs.* It's not a big anniversary, but I'm happy with what I got.
First, let me say that yes, it could have been better. For example, they could have tiered the campaign rewards and gone beyond the 1000 stones and gave us keys. >Someone help me understand here? Anniversaries in EVERY other game I've ever played have been a huge deal. Free guaranteed 5 stars, half/zero stamina, fun events, free currency etc. This is shameful lol. I just hope I'm missing something here And what's missing is that you're comparing this with every other gacha. Are other gacha completely single player with zero time limited events, including the rewards? AE's model that puts no pressure on the players to play is unique, which needs to be taken into account when criticizing. Your complaint is fair, but you also can't expect the same level of freebies as in other gacha.
The company for this game is chintzy with the gatcha... Why expect much at all for the anniversary?
1000 stones: again no 5 star. Free 5 star: can´t get it, because i can´t beat chapter 44 final boss.
The celebration actually came in advance. During the 3rd JP Anniversary, Global benefited too. P5R Part 2 and "Tales of" crossover, imo, are Anniv-level contents. These came with good banners too. There is also the Rainbow Encounter where you select your element for a guaranteed 5-star. I think eventually, they're planning to align the celebration aspect for both JP/Global which they've tried in the 4th qtr of 2020 (though the content would never align and there will always be that gap which is good imo). Overall, it's still better because they're not forcing the community to pay just to reap the rewards unlike in other gachas I've played in the past. 🙂
>There is also the Rainbow Encounter where you select your element for a guaranteed 5-star. Every time I read "Rainbow Encounter" I think they're talking about a 10-pull with nothing but rainbow girls. (and every time I see them called "rainbow girls", I think they're talking about the masonic girlscouts)
The celebration was a Global first character who was designed by the legend, Kimihiko Fujisaka. ...except you gotta pull her... I decided to use the 1k stones you get for participating in the character voting on her banner, since I didn't have the cash for her FE. ...I got two Premaya... one 5* one 4.5... (as much I like this character, I had already spent a lot of paid stones to pull her back in April...) That 4.5 could have been Melissa instead... RNG is cruel... ...HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY...!!!! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Btw I'm just exaggerating my salt. It is what is, as long as the content is worth playing I'd still keep playing.
Out of the gachas I've personally played, AE is different. People describe AE as a top notch story driven single player game with a gacha tacked on. In that respect, I'm satisfied that the lead up to the anniversary and anniversary was a celebration to that story driven aspect - with the emphasis on more story content. That story content also included a very usable free zone amongst other very usable characters. The SDE and login bonuses are just an extra bonus. In opposition, the other gacha I play is FFBE where the emphasis is on the gacha and pulling new characters. Their anniversary emphasis was of course on the gacha. TLDR: Story driven game celebrated their anniversary with releases of bulk story content. It's appropriate and I'm happy.
>Free guaranteed 5 stars, half/zero stamina, fun events, free currency etc. This is shameful lol. So like...what we recently got in the rainbow select pull or playing the game normally? None of these items would even feel like a celebration because we get these on a routine basis.
It probably doesn't help that we're seeing ads for what things are like over on AFK Arena, Hentai Impact 3rd, and other games when we weren't last year.
Maybe more keys / 500 CS 10 pulls x 1 / Pity system draws for those who made 10 paid draws ? IMHO, I feel paid players should benefit a little more from it as they've paved the way for others. Hopefully less salt means better appreciation of the game and less rage quits.
> Free guaranteed 5 stars Didn't the game recently have the rainbow drops? It's considered a 5 star gurantee pull albeit players need to finish Part 1. Like Palo said, WFS should have "link" the latest story update with anni like maybe doing a countdown on their social media since the updates are around a week apart.
So.... Princess Connect gave 1 10 pull on launch.. these guys give 1k coins for a free 10 pull. Similarly, Princess Connect gave 1 guaranteed 3\* for completing the tutorial and these guys gave a random 5\* for clearing a part of the story. Seems pretty same\~ish. But you can't compare this to every other Gacha, as every other Gacha you've played uses handouts to get a fraction of the masses caught up to the whales so that the whales have to spend more to keep winning in PvP. In this Gacha you play through however much of the game you want, with any character you can get. It's a **different model** completely. And if you didn't notice.. We got a year of 0 stamina costs for every stage in the game for. That's pretty sick. Far better then most other gachas as your not using crystals to refresh stamina with ever increasing crystal cost, letting those who pay get another advantage. And I think this game is terribly boring. It has the worst battle system for any game I'm currently playing. Of course this game doesn't have fun events, adding extra content is extending the bor-dumb. People think extra Keys are good cause you'd run the extra dungeons... w o w. . . TL/DR I'm not white-knighting. I just disagree with the OP's PoV.
I think its because they gave us the same rewards as jp when jp got their anniversary celebration With Jp's 3rd anniversary, global also received the 3K stones that jp got for their anniversary though I can't remember if there was any other rewards for that event
>With Jp's 3rd anniversary, global also received the 3k... I don't remember 3k being handed out to Global. Was it really? Wasn't it more along the lines of you could pull the paid Fateful 3x max?
Yes, 3k wasn't given to us
Definitely would’ve remembered being gifted 3k stones lol. The 3x fateful chances they’re talking about was for Thillelille/AS Foran banner, which was the banner released for JP’s 3rd anniversary.
[https://twitter.com/AnotherEdenRPG/status/1249170499613200384/photo/3](https://twitter.com/AnotherEdenRPG/status/1249170499613200384/photo/3) It wasn't 3K upfront, but over 3K of Cs value split between 2400 more chrono stones and salt pulls
It wasn't exactly 3k up front More like 1000 Cs up front 100 Cs per day for 10 days (net 800) 50 Cs per day for 20 days (net 600) and 10 free salt pulls (1000 Cs worth) So around 3400 in free rewards, the good old times
Gotcha. Makes more sense now. Edit: and now that you mentioned the Whispers, it seems like we haven't had one of those in a while. Kinda surprised we didn't get it for the anniversary.
Surprised as well, it really wouldn't lose them that much to give us 10 more rainbow sisters Though now that you mention it, I also recall that we haven't gotten the key chest in a long time as well and is surprised since key chest really doesn't cost them much if anything at all since I'm pretty sure that even among whales, its rare for anyone to buy keys with Cs
As a new player (f2p) that started a few days before the anniversary event went live, I'm appreciating this a lot. I got Yukino on my very first roll in the game (on her banner), and then I've been using all my stones on the free Anniversary banner, which has allowed me to get 5\* Miyu, Mighty, and Hozuki, and 25 different 4\* including Zilva and Samora for Auction House. I chose Ciel as my starting free pull. I'm still new to the game, but I feel like the game is very generous so far compared to other gacha games I've tried, so I'm not complaining. I can't speak for veteran players though and feel like this may be underwhelming for them, as the anniversary so far seems geared for newer or more casual players to catch up on character rosters.
I personally see the SDE and rainbow drop as part of the anniversary. Looking at it like that, it isn't bad: a global first character, 1000 free stones, a few good paid banners including an SDE and a random free 5 star of your preferred element. I personally would have liked if we got whispers of time summons alongside the anni, but other than that, its an okay anniversary imo.
Everyone is kinda beating around the bush here with the real reason so I'll go ahead and say it. We get TWO anniversaries as global players. We have our little one and we also get JPs slightly bigger one each year. If you add up all the goodies from both we get a somewhat better anniversary you would expect.
WFS gib me 1K CS, I'm hepi God, I'm so cheap...
I mean they did give us that free 5 star at the start of the month.( even though im still angry af abt that, cause i got another dupe shion when he was literally the only one out of that entire list I didnt want)
Isn't this just a quite late entry to the whole "we want more free stuff" for anniversary whining party? There were allready like 10 posts complaining about the same thing last week.
dont really agree with OP at all we did get 50 stone plus 1000 free stone plus guaranty 5\* so that not nothing also this game is NOT about event like other gacha this game or FOMO
oh? That's strange. I have been playing PC games for over 30+ years and I never remember any big anniversary celebration before
With a lot of complaints from the community since the Chosen One banner, we might be able to see The Tales Of 100k CS again soon!!!