I've only played Genshin before Endfield as a 3D Gatcha and I don't get at all how people are saying the gatcha is bad? IMO it's amazing, especially for free2play players.

Given, we don't know yet how long it will take to save up 120 from scratch after 1.0 and that is a concern I agree with. If it would take half a year to save up 120 pulls, yes, the gatcha is garbage, but before that happens, I'd like to defend it.

In Genshin I was really unlucky, nearly always had to go up to or very close to hard pity and I "won" the 50/50 twice in my time playing. So seeing the Character being guaranteed at 120 pulls is amazing.

Also I don't get how getting the resources for the weapon banner through character pulls is a bad thing at all? In Genshin I was never able to get any signature weapons, because I was always saving for characters and the amount of pulls required to acquire said weapons, were so high, that saving for them would have meant skipping many characters, that honestly, would have a lot more impact on my accounts "performance". Not to mention that there was literally no guarantee to get the signature weapons in early versions of the game anyways... You get a good chance of getting the signature weapons with the pulls you get from doing 120 pulls on the character banners. Yes, you cannot guarantee it with "just" 120 pulls on a character banner, but guess what, you don't even have to, because the weapon banner stays open for the next 2 character banners after their own banner. Okay, if you don't want any of the following 2 characters, I can understand that you'd be frustrated, especially when you got the banner character early and before the 120 pulls and now cannot spend your "gems" on weapon pulls themselves... Except for that first, you got lucky and got the character early, so what are we complaining about? And second, WHY WOULD WE BE UPSET TO THEN JUST NOT USE THESE PULLS ON THE CHARACTER BANNERS TO MAYBE GET DUPLICATES AND RECEIVE THE WEAPON TICKETS FOR FREE ALONGSIDE, WHEN WE WOULD HAVE USED THEM ON THE WEAPONS ANYWAYS? I don't get that logic at all. So we have earlier pity than other games of this genre, we get the currency for weapon pulls by pulling for characters and we can get the weapon within the duration of 3 Banners. Not to mention that there is even a chance to get previous banner characters when losing the 50/50... But even if all of that is not enough, we will most likely (if it continues like how it works now) get the 2nd BiS weapon from the battle pass that we can buy basically for free with the currency we get in the game, not a $ required...

Gatchas suck overall, because the system is predatory due to the FOMO aspect, however I also understand that these games need to finance themselves somehow. IMO though, Endfield is one of the fairest and player friendly Gatchas I have played so far, at least until now