A letter to dear foreign friends

[深邃之梦]

Dear foreign friends，
Hello. I am using Google Translate to complete this letter.
I am a Chinese player who has been playing this game since October 2023. Although the quality and fun of this game are very good, the studio that operates this game is a bunch of parasites. I would advise you not to play this game, or just play the game without spending any money, from multiple aspects.
1.Game content: The ttk of this game is relatively long, but it chooses the blasting mode as its main mode, which makes it difficult to rely on individual strength to win when one side is reduced in number. At the same time, the game will assign you inappropriate teammates during matchmaking, so even if you are extremely strong, it is difficult to lead a group of weaker teammates to victory, even though this is not what your teammates want. In addition, this game’s performance in preventing cheating is actually quite poor, and we are also deeply troubled by cheating players. While the game is certainly entertaining and the characters are genuinely fascinating, you'll start to feel more and more frustrated as you play for longer.
2. Game welfare: You must be wondering why Chinese players are so aggressive in giving bad reviews to this game. Some skins that our players purchased with real money on the Chinese server can be obtained for free here using purple balls. Although the purple ball is hard to get now, it won't be that difficult to get later. The pass rewards here are relatively better. However, there is no double item bonus for the first recharge. All of this reflects the stupidity of the people who run the game.
3. External reasons: The early developers of this game were not these same people, they came up with the idea and worked on it but didn't finish it. A new group of people completed it, but also turned this game into a tool for making money. This studio has made so many disgusting and infuriating decisions. They have no intention to make this game better at all, they just make profits from players' pockets. They make this wonderful game boring. They don't care about players' opinions at all.
If I could I would really like to tell you about the development of this game and the abhorrent decisions made by this studio. I love this game, but I hate this studio. Although the game itself is very good, I don't recommend you to play it. You will gradually experience the frustration brought by this game and be disgusted by this studio. If you really want to play, just play and don't recharge. I emphasize again, do not recharge, otherwise you will regret it in the end. My biggest wish is to have a better studio run this game instead of the current one.

[Luxyfluxy]

Thank you for the insight, will keep it in mind!

[Eren Jaeger]

Thank you so much for your Warnings and Information about this game. Then of course we will not spend any money for this game

[dian (・∆・)]

thank you

[Feachairu]

it fun game tho

[Izuna Drop]

You love the game and hate the studio?

Genshin Players say that stuff all the time and guess what? they spend their life savings on the game anyway.

Addiction is truly a B1tch. I can't see a different outcome on this game either.

[Aimee]

I have played games from terrible studio's before, before they were bad. And spend money on those games (wargaming), and i dont regret it.
Sure the companies are terrible now and i wont spend any money on it anymore, but back then i did enjoy those games and when a game is good i want to support development.
At the time i very much enjoyed the games, and i spend the amount of money on it that i think was worth it. Nothing more, nothing less.

I will do the same with every game, if i think the game is worth money ill spend some on it, when it gets bad ill spend less or no money.
Thats honnestly a good life advice in general, if you enjoy something support it for the amount you think its worth, if you dont then dont.
If games dont earn money, they cant be developed. And if you overspend, companies start using bad practices. Its up the you, the consumer on making the right decission and keeping the balance.

[˚ʚ 𝒞𝒽𝓊 ｡☾⋆☁]

So many words and no proof. Everyone here just nods their heads...

[深邃之梦]

I cannot advise you more sincerely.Well,If you insist, I won't say anything more.Please be careful and sensible.Money comes from your own labor and efforts.Don't let your recharge turn into negative feedback.
Yours sincerely,Chinese friend

[ele]

We're only playing it for a few days and obviously won't spend any money. Rivals comes out in 2 weeks. When you only have 1 character worth playing you know the game is doomed.

[Pyro3000]

Don't care. Having fun. So far the devs have been open and responsive.

If you're mad about the changes to loot crate type content in China, complain to Pooh Bear.

[Kim WooJin from Stray Kids Kpop]

I rarely purchase in game items. I simply play for the game mechanics. Hopefully that's okay？I definitely wont whale on this game。

我很少用钱买游戏的东西。我玩儿应该没问题吗？我一定不会在这里花钱

[aSoulBelow]

Games like these seem to be the trend by corporations now.. pay a different studio to make the game.. and they take it under different name and destroy it and try to milk you of money until the game dead. They try to pass themselves off as indie small dev but actually it is not. These studios are not true small indies looking to continue to make games they are just fake dead studio full of costume makers and the real game creators are unknown.

[Yukito For Ever]

Well, your warning is concerning. So far the game is super fun to me, but thank you anyway. In my case I'm gonna be aware of future movements with the studio and with the game.
Thanks again friend!

[Fulcrum.Armulus]

So I woke up in the morning and found this in my “reported” folder, and… I want to respond to this instead of deleting the post. May delete later who knows. (Because conversation on the internet is fun am I right?) First of all, any form of criticism is appreciated, as long as it’s not defamation, and although you used some strong words, I don’t necessarily think it’s that. So it’s fine. And in that regard I am grateful that you spent some time to structure your thoughts and opinions.

Your criticism about the game content is interesting. The pacing of the gameplay I think it’s mostly players’ preference, and as more game modes get developed we hope it can accommodate more styles. The matchmaking stuff is constantly being updated because it’s very tough to balance it right. Anticheat too is being implemented. All in all I welcome any kinds of discussions on the gameplay optimization. I may not be able to respond to all of them or accept all of them, but def keep them coming. Now, onto your other thoughts…

This is all public information, and people can check it easily online. We have a distributor in the CN game. We are distributing the game ourselves in the global release. I’d say that’s a rather significant difference… It affects how much the development can impact the release, and how well we can implement our vision. Moreover, we are not a small studio. As anyone who has worked, managed, or owned in a large organization of any kind would tell you, it is inevitable that there’s friction internally or externally. And you can find PR videos online where we discuss and acknowledged our hurdles. None of this is meant as apology or excuse… quite the opposite, I want to be as transparent as I can. Namely, of course we made mistakes. No studio, company, organization, or people can go about their life without mistakes. BUT, making threat, wildly personal accusations, and hateful comments, doesn’t seem like the right way to go about it. (I’m not talking about anyone specifically. As I have said, the reason why I engaged with this post to begin with is because I did not consider it malicious.)

It has somewhat become a meme, but every developer is a player. Of course, buying skins and other purchasing is great. BUT what we want more is for people to just… you know, play. That’s why it’s free to play. That’s also why I was so happy that people start making tutorial, here, on Discord, Reddits, YouTube, and so on. That’s the kind of community we want, people discussing how to win matches, what to upgrade each round, how to use each agents, etc etc. Lastly, I just want to say that games are meant to make people happy. I mean, that’s why we have them right? Otherwise what’s the point haha. Anyway, hope all of us can enjoy the game!!!

[SaWiX]

Originally posted by Fulcrum.Armulus:

So I woke up in the morning and found this in my “reported” folder, and… I want to respond to this instead of deleting the post. May delete later who knows. (Because conversation on the internet is fun am I right?) First of all, any form of criticism is appreciated, as long as it’s not defamation, and although you used some strong words, I don’t necessarily think it’s that. So it’s fine. And in that regard I am grateful that you spent some time to structure your thoughts and opinions.

Your criticism about the game content is interesting. The pacing of the gameplay I think it’s mostly players’ preference, and as more game modes get developed we hope it can accommodate more styles. The matchmaking stuff is constantly being updated because it’s very tough to balance it right. Anticheat too is being implemented. All in all I welcome any kinds of discussions on the gameplay optimization. I may not be able to respond to all of them or accept all of them, but def keep them coming. Now, onto your other thoughts…

This is all public information, and people can check it easily online. We have a distributor in the CN game. We are distributing the game ourselves in the global release. I’d say that’s a rather significant difference… It affects how much the development can impact the release, and how well we can implement our vision. Moreover, we are not a small studio. As anyone who has worked, managed, or owned in a large organization of any kind would tell you, it is inevitable that there’s friction internally or externally. And you can find PR videos online where we discuss and acknowledged our hurdles. None of this is meant as apology or excuse… quite the opposite, I want to be as transparent as I can. Namely, of course we made mistakes. No studio, company, organization, or people can go about their life without mistakes. BUT, making threat, wildly personal accusations, and hateful comments, doesn’t seem like the right way to go about it. (I’m not talking about anyone specifically. As I have said, the reason why I engaged with this post to begin with is because I did not consider it malicious.)

It has somewhat become a meme, but every developer is a player. Of course, buying skins and other purchasing is great. BUT what we want more is for people to just… you know, play. That’s why it’s free to play. That’s also why I was so happy that people start making tutorial, here, on Discord, Reddits, YouTube, and so on. That’s the kind of community we want, people discussing how to win matches, what to upgrade each round, how to use each agents, etc etc. Lastly, I just want to say that games are meant to make people happy. I mean, that’s why we have them right? Otherwise what’s the point haha. Anyway, hope all of us can enjoy the game!!!

is everything in the ingame store gonna stay paid only? this game has limited outfit banners like its a gacha game but so far i dont see a way to get premium currency ingame in any way aside from a few scraps in the season pass. that can turn away a lot of players who are unsure about spending in the beginning atleast, even the monthly pass gives 20 crystals a day, which is a lot less than any other game with such a feature. even with that it takes 6 days to get 1 pull and you need 80 pulls to guarantee a legendary outfit, seeing that some of them are limited banners, this makes it impossible for anyone other than "whales" to get ingame outfits. dont get me wrong, i know the game needs to make money somehow and that atleast characters arent locked behind a paywall, but giving us some crystals atleast for doing dailies/weeklies would be more appealing and you could get more return in the long run as it would entice people to actually buy additional crystals, rather than locking it out for free to play players completely. i've heard theres internal discussion about the region lock issue, is there any update or a time estimate? all my friends are from different regions and im unable to play with them because of it.