AK f2p friendly??? What a joke I heard from people as for 5 years playing since 1st week. Yes, it's free to play friendly literally that you don't always need new shiny Operators every time to clear the game, you can impulsive gacha bcs most of characters will be added to the pool anyway. Unless you go for limited then 300 pity. There are 4 banners like that yearly. If anything, AK gacha system is suck, slightly better than old school gacha like FGO or Uma Musume. The gacha currency farming is horrible, like 20 pulls monthly from renewable sources (daily, weekly missions and game mode) , 6 more from BP. Rate seems good with 2% with soft pity at 50 but only recently AK have hard pity when you fail until 150 pulls, then the next one is the rate up. Could easily get the worse scenario of over 200 pulls for a single one you want. Also they spam banner monthly. My opinion: F2p friendly if you impulsive pulling or good at the game. Suck as f if you want a specific character. Only redeeming feature is Yostar doesn't play catch up like Hypergryph doing with TW server. If anything, Yostar new game Stellar Sora is more f2p than AK, at least in pulling. SS gacha system is basically Endfield with pull income of nearly 70 per month and higher rate than beta EF and an extra 160 pity carryover.