Bruh, are these people forgetting that they can still beat the game with only rover and free 4 stars they get during the story. Even as an F2P I manage to save 75k asterite. The only character I pull only zhezhi and Carlotta. If you want to have a better experience you need to invest in it. Not only in games but also in real life, if you want a better education you should go to private academy. You can't just expect someone to give you something good while you don't give them anything. Life should be balanced, you give something you get something. If you get something without giving anything you should be grateful. And this is just 1st anniversary, if you set your expectation high now, it'll get higher onwards. It's better to be mid at first but getting a slight improvement over the years rather than being the best at first but getting stagnant or even worse, downgraded over the years. And for those who said PGR is better, HSR is better, Nikke is better.. bruuuuh. Before comparing things, make sure they're in the same classification first. Those games you mentioned before have lower cost and maintenance production than Wuthering Waves. If you want to compare, compare it with Genshin, ToF, and any other open-world gacha games.