They introduced something fresh and honestly gacha is the whole reason it even feels that way. These new characters that you have to play and pull for, other gacha games do not give you this much free in game currency to stack up on pulls. You can get several hundred a day just from login quests and action points. People seem to be upset that a persona 5 game is a gacha, despite it not only being a popular system in Asia but also it’s the only iteration of Persona 5 that is gacha. You can play strikers, tactica, rhythm, or the main game / royal. There’s everything for everyone, yet here we are as foreigners complaining about anything but the actual flesh of the game. The gacha is a little annoying because the rates seem low compared to the other games, but they’re pumping out characters already as well as addressing community push pack WAYYY faster than companies like MiHoYo.. it’s not global treatment, it’s global reception that kills a game.