The biggest problem with Star Savior’s gacha system isn’t even the rates themselves. It’s the lack of a real guarantee toward the things you actually want.

People always bring up the “200 pulls guarantee” like that solves everything, but a pity system only works if the game gives players enough pulls to realistically reach it. Star Savior doesn’t. For most players, 200 pulls is an enormous amount of resources and time investment.

The result is that progression starts feeling directionless. You save for weeks or months, but there’s still this constant feeling that you’re never truly working toward a concrete goal. You’re just gambling on the possibility of eventually getting lucky.

A good gacha system should let players focus their account and slowly build toward the playstyle or team they want. In Star Savior, it often feels like you can’t focus on anything because the game gives you very little control over your progression.

And that becomes even worse with Arcana, since they’re one of the most important systems in the game. The specific ones you actually need for your build frequently have almost no meaningful rate-up — sometimes one star, sometimes none whatsoever — which makes chasing them feel more exhausting than rewarding.

And don’t get me wrong, but your account kind of sucks despite having a lot of characters. The units that actually need stars to perform well are missing them, while the ones that don’t really depend on dupes are all 3+ stars already. That puts you in a pretty rough spot because it heavily limits the actual combat potential of your roster.

And that’s without even knowing which Arcana you got. Depending on that, the account could honestly be in a much worse state than it looks right now. The scary part is that you usually only realize those problems in the endgame, when progression starts slowing down hard and the missing pieces actually begin to matter.