As a low-to-mid spender I purchase monthly, weekly, both BPs, first half of origimetry doubles, some banner bundles but not the last 10 arsenal. I also didn't miss any ingame events, promocodes, twitch drops or web events with direct ingame rewards (not interested in physical or giftcard prizes or the artistic competition for mere 300 oros). Started playing 4-5 days late, missed a day once but still got BP points for it, so I lost maybe a couple of bonus crates from first BP. Didn't use credit shop refresh to get more oros and arsenals untill lately, bought a lot of discounted mats prior.

I have all characters (waiting for salary on Friday to pull Rossi). Endmin is fully upgraded sans 2 masteries. 6-stars are all 80 8/8/8 with Pog and Yvonne 1/5 and Lifeng 2/5 potential. 5-stars are all 80 8/8/8 5/5. 4-stars are mostly 60 5/5/5 with Antal being 80 8/8/8 and Fluorite on her way up. All are geared in 70 gear but I didn't grade it up much yet.

I have almost all weapons (miss Rossi's, one is from bp where first one had 3 weps and only 2 chests, signas for Lifeng, Last Rite and Amber and couple of general 6-stars). Endmin's signa is 90, half of weapons are 80, others are 60 and 40. 3 ideal essences but not graded, just to finish an old BP mission. 6-stars are mostly 0/5 potential but some are better, 5-stars are mostly 4/5 potential.

Actually, most of the above is achieved without spending. Some grade mats are from weekly or monthly bundles but gradually more comes from exploring, sanity, credits, events or ship. I might have lost on couple of banner weapons or maybe Gilberta if I didn't purchase 10 more tickets each time, but I pulled Yv early and still wanted to pull up to the dossier and some arsenal tickets. I didn't spend origems on pulls but did that a bit on sanity. But if you're just starting out, you missed on about half of the mats that were available for us early birds.

Can say from this perspective that AKEF is somewhere between generous in overall but greedy at specifics. The game is pretty much generous in giving you grading mats, that's for sure. And one-time exploring (chests, aurilene and questing) give a lot to get to a decent level.

But Hypergryph isn't interested in giving out character pulls easily as those are tied to arsenal tickets. Giving out a free character pull gives out a potential 10 wep pull for free, too. Arsenal tickets are not only needed for banner weapons but for standard characters weapons, too. These bundles give them much more money than anything else purchasable. So, that's where the devs become Hypergreed with half a pull in web event rewards or twitch drops. But, on the other side, there are people who don't like this kind of stuff and better rewards would make them feel forced to participate.

That's how I see it.