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adjl posted...

It varies from game to game, but a common structure is to have a party made up of characters that you draw randomly, whose stats, unique abilities, and other measures of their power will vary.

And oftentime weapons, summons, and other less interesting stuff than characters but end up impacting your power level more than the characters themselves. Granblue can get really bad about this by populating the gacha with both weapons and summons, with the first time you obtain a weapon giving you a corresponding character. But you almost always want one of a premium weapon maxed out (4 copies) in your grid of 10 weapons, and usually going for a premium grid is both superior and far easier to max out, not counting money. And then you need 4 copies of a summon for a premium grid to even be functional. But having more than 4 of any one specific summon is absolutely pointless, so they end up being filler draws. And it's incredibly unlikely you'll even get one copy of anything specific- even during double draw rates, you have a 0.3% chance to draw one copy of something on rate up, and a 0.014% chance to draw everything else. And at least for the entire time I played the game, the premium-enabling summons never went on rate up.

You can function entirely fine by only doing pulls about twice a year and using free resources that you get one of every couple months to uncap weapons and summons, but that requires a lot of self-control that many don't have. And they're earned in the game's one competitive event, so if you're behind the curve already, it gets harder to catch up. It's got a veneer of "well just play optimally and you won't be that far behind" to suck you in, but the game is so god damn grindy. And the worst part is, it's actually really fun when you're not in infinite grind mode.

I pulled for one specific specific character every time she was on any sort of rate up for about six years and never got her, mostly because I didn't have the patience to save up 300 pulls for a guarantee and thought she'd turn up eventually. If I wasn't being totally stubborn over it, a quick $800 would have gotten her immediately.