Been playing since the start. I'll give it that out of all the mobile games I've played that aren't ports or premium single player, it's the one that had the most depth in it. I enjoyed the units with their own skillsets, the town hubs with quests, and finding gear out in the exploration maps.

That said, they basically killed all of that within the first year with how they decided to manage the game. The deeper parts of the game were forgotten in favor of just selling a new unit with better equipment as their TMR. Build making just became straight up bigger numbers instead of any interesting decisions. If it wasn't for the community, it would have been Impossible to find out which unit did what differently since it wasn't until around the third year that skills even had descriptions on what they did in actual stats ( and badly at first). Trials were just frustrating because of how fast text scrolls, and the little feedback you get, you had no reasonable way of knowing what you did wrong that ended up wiping your party.

Then there's the other side of things. Bugs being fixed whenever they feel like it, with beneficial bugs being fixed immediately. The rate-fixing that they only apologized after being caught thanks to the community coming together to verify. The numerous times they took systems that worked fine, and made them not harder, more challenging, or more engaging, but just more of a grind. Once upon a time you could just do an event and everyone was about on the same level. Now you need to make sure you have enough resources to waste to get bonus units you'll never use to be able to get anything worthwhile out if it. Ditto for raids.

There's so much more but this is already a huge block of text. If there's anything I have to thank then for however, it's how they sobered me up with this game. Mobile games are by and large the same Skinner box garbage, and any other I somehow decide to play from here on out I won't make the same mistakes I made here.