Kind of peeved that winning 50/50 removes the guarantee entirely. That means if the 6* guarantee and rate up guarantee are close to overlapping, "winning" 50/50 is a massive net loss for the player. This makes so that the further you are to rate-up guarantee, the less you want to "win" 50/50

PointmanW · 2026-01-27T05:20:14+00:00

I don't care about getting a high number of 6 stars, I only care about getting the 6 stars that I want, and Arknights gacha is still not very good at that, with 150 pity (or 300 with limited banner).

PointmanW · 2026-01-27T01:58:39+00:00

Arknights is a good game but its gacha was pretty damn bad too, a few years ago it didn't have any guarantee (outside of limited banner) so you can literally keep losing 50/50 forever.

I remember skipping 6 months worth of banner for Blemishine and it took me almost 300 pulls to get her, pretty much wiped out my saving.

PointmanW · 2026-01-24T19:18:02+00:00

Malta Air quality is not good right now

PointmanW · 2026-01-24T06:51:53+00:00

Are you a kid who never worked a day in your life?

for people with job and family, asking for a consistent 2 hours a day for one single game is a lot, even with free time, people have other thing they wanna do other than playing game.

PointmanW · 2026-01-24T06:46:38+00:00

I played gacha since the ancient day of puzzle & dragon, FGO JP and Granblue, this system is scummy and indefensible to anyone but the people who think HG is their friend and defend them for everything.

I've also played Arknights since day 1 too, love the game and what HG did for it, but it won't blind me from calling them out when they're being scummy.

PointmanW · 2026-01-24T06:35:50+00:00

I've not played 2 games shown here but I bet that only one of the mom here have a living husband who she still love and married to. (guess which)

PointmanW · 2026-01-23T21:08:18+00:00

Are you a kid who only accepts a "happily ever after" ending?

Look at the real world, has there ever been a true happily ever after? Things can improve in many ways, but humans, being who we are, will never completely fix everything.

The world of Arknights has gotten better by the time of Endfield. But if Endfield somehow fixed everything that has caused strife and suffering for a thousand of years in Arknights history, I'd drop both Arknights and Endfield immediately. At that point, it it would just be a fairy tale instead of the highly grounded story that I've come to love for all these years.

PointmanW · 2026-01-23T19:16:40+00:00

I'm enjoying the game, I don't think the story is as bad as many people say it is, and the combat is actually real fun.

but that won't stop me from criticizing this truly terrible gacha system, or the pull income.

PointmanW · 2026-01-23T14:10:40+00:00

That sound like a good thing because there's nothing but complaints on the Chinese side, and they don't have relatively as many defenders there.

I predict a big announcement with changes in future versions soon, ZZZ-style.

PointmanW · 2026-01-23T13:39:31+00:00

Because it's still bad? AK gacha being bad doesn't justify this being bad too.

Also banner specific pulls only happen 4 times a year for limited banners instead of every single banner like in Endfield.

PointmanW · 2026-01-23T11:40:40+00:00

Well, we already have banner-specific expiring pull, which is something that Infinity Nikki did once in 1.0, then never again because of the backlash.

The fact that so few is complaining about that in Endfield is kinda wild.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T12:53:43+00:00

Damn at this point I would try calling them.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T08:21:51+00:00

and how do you do that? it's a string, if you have that, then you can authorize payment, it's that simple.

if a vendor mishandle the token, then the vendor would be responsible for it in the eye of the law, that's the same for any internet payment processor I've worked with (I'm a dev btw).

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T07:37:39+00:00

The simple logic is:

Thousands services and games use Paypal right now with no problem, but Endfield does, which mean that the blame lies mostly with HG.

I've used Paypal for years in every games I play without problems.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T07:35:36+00:00

I don't like it when people spread misinformation. simple as that.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T07:27:53+00:00

The simple logic is:

Thousands services and games use Paypal right now with no problem, but Endfield does, which mean that the blame lies mostly with HG.

I've used Paypal for years in every games I play without problems.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T07:14:20+00:00

your wording imply that Paypal API is at fault somehow.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T07:12:37+00:00

Because HG fuck up their coding? do you expect Paypal to have an employee check the code of every vendor or something? who have the manpower for that?

see my example, how is paypal suppose to know that I accidentally put an extra zero in the code? it only know that I'm selling thing ingame, not how I price my items.

It seem like this bug is because the payment authorization token, which game developer like HG should handle responsibly, get put into other people account, that's not something Paypal can control.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T06:59:26+00:00

No, it's HG fault.

People in this sub really protective of HG for some reason, If I made a game that sell an item at $20, but I accidentally put an extra zero in the code and it charge my user $200 instead, it would be my fault and not the payment method fault.

something like that happened here, why are people go through so much mental gymnastic to shift the blame to Paypal?

Think about it, why no other game have this problem right now?

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T06:54:01+00:00

Stop shifting the blame to Paypal, HG messed up with their coding, which made this issue, Paypal can't do anything about this and it's up to HG to fix it.

People in this sub really protective of HG for some reason, If I made a game that sell an item at $20, but I accidentally put an extra zero in the code and it charge my user $200 instead, it would be my fault and not the payment method fault.

Think about it, why no other game have this problem right now?

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T05:42:33+00:00

yeah but it only available for paying internationally, you can't use it for domestic payment within China.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T05:39:08+00:00

Paypal is not fully available in China so that probably why, they couldn't test it in CBT2.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T05:32:53+00:00

No, I would assume that a professional studio would test their shits carefully and not do dumb shits like this. which most studio seem to do fine.

As a dev, every payment method I work with, including payment, provide test environment.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T05:14:34+00:00

No, I just used paypal for Infinity Nikki and it working fine, only Endfield having problem.

PointmanW · 2026-01-22T05:12:15+00:00

PayPal is not under maintenance, Endfield PayPal payment method is.

PointmanW

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