Post by anjian on Sept 4, 2019 2:47:22 GMT -5
Started on this one, but debating if I should continue, despite having a good base of sync pairs.
Game does not look like anything like its trailer.
Unlike other Pokemon games where you gotta catch the Pokemon, you are getting both the Pokemon and the trainer, and even the alts of the same trainer using a different Pokemon (See Alt-Brock in the game with Tyrannitar along with regular Brock with Onix).
Coming to this, I have a fair knowledge of Pokemon, namely from Pokemon Go, watching some of the anime and Detective Pikachu but I am not a hard core nerd of the franchise, so I can't debate niggly nerdy details between who vs. who.
I would think that the Pokemon franchise isn't going to drop into gacha game business but here you go. This is going to be Nintendo's third gacha game after the tremendously successful Fire Emblem Heroes, which I also sank huge amount of money into and Dragalia Lost, which I started by stopped.
To be fair, the gacha rates are very good for a gacha game, with five stars at 7%, compared to like 1% of some gacha games. But you earn too little of the currency needed for the gacha from paying so you have to pay up, which is averagely moderate.
With gacha games you have to develop an effective strategy. Players usually boil down to a few types.
1. The Waifu collector. Collect and roll only for your favorite Waifu or Husbandoo. They save up everything until their favorites --- not necessarily meta, they just like the character whether by his or her appearance or their lore in the franchise --- come up in an update or event. That's when they go all in and spend away their free stuff, and if necessary, they would pay till they get it.
2. The Free to Play Player. These players take whatever is given to them --- Pokemon Masters does give out a good base of free sync pairs (Trainer + Pokemon) --- keep leveling and powering them out with grinds and other free stuff, till these are very powerful and can complete storylines and do farming in coop. Beating the game for as little to no spending can be a challenge and goal for these players.
3. The Meta Player. These players will spend every dime to collect the latest, hoping these are the bestest. The True Whales of the game. P2W and P2P players fall into this group.
My Style. I believe that it should be right to pay and give back to the developers of the game, that's how I am brought up. A fair exchange. So I would spend at the start, to collect a suitable base of characters, and develop them. I don't chase for #3, and I do play like #2, using my acquired resources, and might spend like #1 if I see something that I like. But there is a line I won't cross even for #1, nor for #3. After the higher initial spending, I tend to spend less gradually, since I would rely on my early starters, which becomes the basis for my teams, spending only once in a while for reinforcement. However, this style is vulnerable to meta changes which can make my earlier starters increasingly obsolete, and would require that I refresh my lineup once in a while. But I would take what I can or got by random than keep trying to spend obsessively for that one character you must have.
The way to handle gacha games is not to collect them all. Be picky. Play like F2P most of the time but do spoil yourself once in a while and give their devs their due.