Re: [Nutaku] Sengoku Providence
Another day, more 4*.
I've been reading up more on the Japanese release, and apparently in their pre-registration gatcha if you rolled 50 times you were guaranteed a 5* on your 50th pull. That's something I would have liked to see in the English version. Maybe have the tie in with Twitter that they had, to help spread information that the game was releasing as well as giving you additional pulls per day for sending out the tweet?
I'm pretty upset at the "increased chances" to get a 5* if you spend money. Has ANYONE gotten a 5* yet that didn't purchase the second or third character slot? I'm beginning to think that it's pretty damn impossible for a free player to pull one, especially at only ten pulls per day. To make matters worse, I bet this game will have an early release in Canada (like the majority of Nutaku games do), which means I have less time to try for a 5*.
Regardless, there's no way in hell I'm spending $25/$50 on a game I haven't yet tried. Not sure what Nutaku/SuperHippo are thinking. I know there will always be people out there that spend/support this kind of thing, but I seriously cannot understand the thought process of it. Sure, if you've played the game and had/have fun with it, there's absolutely nothing wrong with spending a bit of money and supporting it. Hell, I've already spent a bit of money in Flower Knight Girl, since I enjoy the game and want to show my support. With Sengoku Providence though...
In any case, I'll do my daily pulls and if I fail to get a 5*, I'll pass on the game. I'm guessing they're going to make the entire thing very P2W (it's already looking like it, and the game hasn't even launched yet), so this is likely my best (and only) chance to get a 5* without spending a lot of money. In Japan, they have a guaranteed 5* for a 10+1 pull. Who wants to guess the English version won't get that feature? No wait, maybe we will, but we'll need to spend money first to "unlock" that feature. :/
Edit:
I just read this on their Facebook page. A comment from the developer or, at least, the one handling the English release.
"Again please wait for the game before making assumptions, the paid slots created during preregistration were made because players complained during DMM preregistration that it was difficult to decide which Senki to keep. Making them free in pre-registration would not have been fair for players going directly in the game.
We consider fair to add these features in this purchase. Again you are ock these features making a purchse and you also get the items you buy."
How thoughtful of them! They heard our pleas/complaints about being unable to choose between our two freshly-pulled 5* waifu, that they selflessly offered the $25/$50 paid in-game option, just so we wouldn't have to make that life-or-death decision. In addition, they lowered the rate of standard 5* pulls, unless we paid the premium fee, just so the F2P customers wouldn't be caught in the horrible situation of having a first and second 5* pulled, and no way to keep both (only having one slot available). They couldn't offer the second and third slots for free to all pre-registration customers, since that wouldn't "be fair". However, giving you the option to have this available if you opt to use your credit card? Yes, that they can do!
Thank you, SuperHippo. Thank you. We really appreciate you guys looking after your customers and the difficult decisions we could potentially have to make.
