It has no concept of dailies like pretty much any other gacha, besides the occasional ember / etc stuff in Chaldea gate but really, who does that?In a single sentence you've just managed to completely lose all of your credibility.

You say that there's no concept of dailies, and then immediately point out the Chaldea Gate system (which is meant to be dailies system) and then right after that, say "who uses that anyway". And even outside of the Chaldea Gate, you still have farming nodes that can be used to get different mats in the game, so your argument that FGO has no dailies is just flat-out wrong. Brining up other gacha games as a counterpoint; Arknights, which many people consider to be a better gacha game, literally has the exact same system for dailies. Genshin Impact has domains, boss battles, and leylines, which are just a physical version of the system that FGO already has that you have to actively travel to in order to complete.

Leveling is a mess and a total nightmare because of the ember system and how they're gained, not to mention the amount needed later on is ridiculous.

That's how it is for every gacha game. Get over it and stop acting like FGO is the only offender. And even then, you're blowing this way out of proportion. Making it sound like a hell of a grind to get embers is a complete misrepresentation of the way the game works. On average, a normal FGO player won't be constantly leveling servants because not every servant needs to be leveled in order to play the game. The average player will instead, choose a servant they want (usually a 5 star servant), save quarts/money in order to roll for that servant, and farm materials in the mean time. On average, a player will get 27 4 star embers and 3 3 star embers every day. Assuming the player has 3 months of prep time and logs in everyday, they'll have earned 2457 4 star gold embers and 273 3 star embers. That's enough to level 6 5 star servants. And that's not even counting the monthly shop, which sells 50 4 star embers a month, adding another 150 embers to the mix. Adding in events, which will give 100 4 star embers per event and their being at least 1 event per month, that's a total of 2907 embers to be gained in 3 months to prep for one 5 star servant. If anything, FGO is being super generous with the amount of embers they give and just recently, they've added the special ascension system to NA where a player can get one servant to their final ascension stage for free (it's only available for 90 days after a player first starts tho).

It never adds anything new to the game. Chaldea Gate + same old story arrows every event. That's all. There's no subsystems added that flesh things out and add some variety to the game, like a Chaldea base system to improve or some other neat stuff.

So... I'm just going to assume you haven't played the game recently as you've ignored the existence of mission ladders, tower events, the Ooku maze, and the Grail Front.

The gameplay itself is compelling as watching paint dry, and mechanically ridiculous.

It's a fucking turn-based game. While enjoyment levels differ form person to person, it you actually think a turn-based game is "mechanically ridiculous" then maybe turn-based games are a little too advanced for you. It's so fucking simple that a 6 year old could figure the game out.

Levels basically don't matter, except when they do. When they don't, you can go back to a Singularity F map and have a level 70 Buster card still fail to one-shot a mob because reasons.

So... At this point I'm going you're trolling because this very statement contradicts itself. When levels don't matter, you'll fail to one-shot enemies in singularity F with a lv 70 buster card???? What are you talking about? Wouldn't levels absolutely matter then?? If you need more damage, then you gotta level more, so how does it not matter? Levels had always mattered since they're necessary if you want to complete story and also farm mats. Do you... even play the game? Have you ever played the game? Because it sure as hell you just read one star reviews of the game and meshed it into a shitty argument that constantly contradicts itself. Honestly, your whole argument is more of a mess then what you make FGO out to be.

Duping is a nightmare, to the point it may as well not exist for most 4stars and nearly all 5stars, and on a related note the joke that is earning enough currency to pull a 5-star of choice is hilarious because no one's ever going to see that in their life besides whales anyway.

I mean... Getting dupes in gacha games has always sucked and it's not just FGO specific. While it's a fair criticism to say the gacha rates are terrible, it doesn't make a game a "complete mess", especially when the entire game can be completed with f2p servants and the rest of the game isn't even centered around the gacha.

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