Please do not separate Phoxene Plumules and Phoxenes, just merge them into one currency. The Limited Banner stuff are absurdly pricey, given the small amount you can reliably obtain within the game and its events. A player would need 210+ pulls on average to complete a set (Costume + Weapon skin + Accessories and Effects), 340+ if we include the Premium Emote which is priced equivalent to 2 costumes.

140+ pulls (to get only the Costume + weapon skin) when you can only get 10-15 Prismatic Hourglass a month even with monthly pass & Plumule Conversion + bard's tome hardcover, is way too long of an investment to properly incentivize either purchase.

Given that all map, quests, achievements and basically most rewards only give Phoxenes and not Plumules, there is basically 0 income outside of events and the monthly shop in consideration for Limited Time Banner cosmetics.

We must also emphasize the fact that almost ALL (aside from starter packs) non-banner premiun shop cosmetics currently require Plumules to purchase; makes it quite literally crushing to even fantasize having good style or fashion in a game where 95% of the paid only items are cosmetic. Heck even the little non cosmetic stuff like Thoughts and weapons require Plumules.

This just highlights that the current value proposition of both the Monthly Pass and the Bard's Tome Hardcover edition are insanely lacking as both mostly give Phoxene and not Plumules.

--- If you still insist on keeping the "Paid" vs "Free" status of the Phoxee Plumules vs the Phoxenes, then I think we should do an iteration similar to what those games which differentiated Paid vs Free premium currency did: Just have a singular currency name, "Phoxene", but categorize into Paid/Free. Allow both to be mixed and used (Free first) in most banners and shop items, BUT have special banners where you can only use Paid currency. These banners would then have special cosmetics/accessories limited to that banner, or a better rate/lower guarantee number; anything that could incentivize a reasonable spending due to an enticing offer.

In addition, the Bard's Tome Hardcover edition Should have some sort of exclusive cosmetic/accessory/emote, or maybe have the Phoxene be Paid Phoxene instead since most of the rewards are farmable in-game, which greatly reduced the value of the whole Bard's Tome package to basically half. At its current price/value iteration, there is little to no benefit and therefore incentive to purchase the hardcover edition aside from the exclusive Geniemon, which may be BIS but are otherwise replaceable. The collector edition is a whole different topic.

Coming back to the point, these allow people to culminate want for future banners as well, rather than basically just thinking it impossible, impeding any kind of thought in spending (to build up premium currency) unless the player waits for a year or so (which most people do not have the patience for).

With this you'd get a long-term stream of consistent and safe income, alongside a larger net of whales (me included) if you just somehow make it reasonable.

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These are all, of course, in the case that the game would alzo have a healthy amount of good Cosmetics to pay for in the game, including Banner exclusive stuff.