With the sudden development on the CN side, it's hard to recommend since they're looking to leech off your wallet more with unethical practices in regards to content being locked behind a gacha like NIKKE but more egregious. It's inevitable that it'll come to our side for EN, but the reception will likely be negative.

It might be only one instance but it will continue to spread to other areas if they find it to be successful to an extent. Steer clear and find something else worthwhile in the long run and probably horse around the store if you like. If you really want to try it out, go ahead and enjoy yourself, but don't bother giving a cent.

Ignore the playtime, I play on the web client.

Hitting this with a solid nope though. Adding a skin gacha on top of a hoyo model is ass, YZ lost their minds.

Was honestly very powercrept and not that engaging gameplay-wise, but as a GFL1 player I stuck it out for the continuation of the plot and the collection aspects in a generally generous Hoyo model. Hitting V0 every banner and buying skins when I wanted to was enough for me.

Now all the good skins are going into a gacha, everything leftover you probably still have to pay for, and seeing CN getting screwed rn has just shut down the will to play.

Maybe I'll change this if they ever change how it works. I don't even know, this ♥♥♥♥ just bums me out with lost potential.

For a gacha game, GFL2 had good and player-friendly prices. Skins worth 10 or 20 usd each, and a bit more extra for customization. It has hoyo-styled gacha system (50/50 pity, with your second pity being a guarantee), but with better soft pity and more generous pull income. They listened to most of our complaints, like when we complained about buyback currency not being in the game yet despite being in the code (it was released a patch later). We still had complaints about gameplay and balance, which was a bit annoying because things were too easy, but we just accepted it because at the very least, they were not predatory.

Until today.

In CN server, MICA not only did not announce in their live stream in CN, but only released the information within the patch notes 2 hours before the update dropped. One of the most awaited skins coming alongside one of the most awaited features (Improved Dorm) is going to be expensive. The skins for Klukai and Andoris are now in a gacha with no way to purchase them as is in their precedented price point of 10-20 usd. New dorm animations for Klukai, and even an older skin's new dorm animation for Wawa (Macchiato) is gated by this gacha. Klukai skin is now considered a "5 star rarity" while Andoris is "4 star rarity". Not only is this new skin system terrible, but the max pity would reach up to 200 usd give or take. It can be argued that hiring an escort is cheaper than dealing with this bs in the game. Not only that, but the furniture for the new dorm is ridiculously expensive too. 100 usd? for ingame furniture? Is MICA really asking for 300 usd for new skins, and furniture? Absolutely ridiculous.

As someone on reddit pointed out, we have:

• Battle pass
  
• Login pass
  
• Access pass
  
• 50/50 HoYo dupe doll gacha
  
• 75/25 weapon HoYo dupe gacha
  
• Buy skin
  
• Buy accessory for the skin because it's not in the initial price
  
• And now... gacha skin

The greed is insanely ridiculous. They're trying to use our goodwill as currency to be more greedy. If they don't revert the changes, there will be a max exodus.

TL;DR - Alongside dropping most awaited dorm feature, devs stealth dropped new skin gacha in CN, despite already directly selling skins before that. Most wanted skin cost 200 usd. New dorm furniture cost 100 usd. Global and CN riots.

(Will update this review when things improve)