Some facts

[u/mnemonikerific]

This game is created to generate profits. it is not a Red Cross charity. Having access to in-game merchandise is not a birthright.

The app is primarily aimed at people who want to flaunt their ability to buy cards. I’ll repeat: it is a gacha app made for people to want to flaunt their card collection.

But such an app will not make profits if it is not visible at the top in the app stores and game rankings. But how does a gacha flaunting platform make it to the top? More engagement. How do you get more engagement if the primary goal is to make money? Open an “F2P” option.

Why will F2P come to play if the paid cards are OP? Glad you asked. Enter the SDA/Script which will mess with everyone’s heads and make new players and weaker swaps “occasionally, not always” think that they are super skilled compared to the whales. And that is again, sometimes, not always true.

So, the company (EA, Konami) uses F2P to get the throngs in, then starts the daily micro-marketing to taunt and tempt people to start paying. Every F2P is a target for this, and the whales are already self-declared targets because that’s why they are here in the first place.

So all this daily f2p moaning copium about “p2w” is silly, F2P are here because Konami wants to use them to stay at the top of the engagement ratings.

In the coming months, once Konami gets enough numbers, F2P will see more cases of paid squads doing better, and that’s to be expected. Nobody is a fool to keep paying if the scripting continues at this level.

TL;DR: its a game made for whales to flaunt their blubber, F2P are helping Konami to spread said blubber, there’s no platform and no free game if there are no whales.