Phone player here with over 60hr+ of playtime, came here specifically for the PC review. (I've done my review on Playstore)

This game is a GOOD game, I'll give you that, especially if you're just starting to play, THIS game have cute and nice characters, GOOD lore, especially you who played the earlier games and loves guns. There a lot of contents to do, the endgame however, is very little to nothing to do, for a 40 gigs+ client, you prolly will just play it for 10 mins daily, farmable content capped with energy, one time boss reward (no reason to repeat).

But all is good, because the "endgame", while some people do care about pursuing silly numbers on guild activity and pvp, most people are in for the characters, some came for the lore, or the cute characters they like, especially for the interactions they have in their dorms. Why? because the game itself were never HARD to begin with it's almost like the purpose of the game is the fan services provided by the characters you collect.

I considered myself one of those player. I only have a maxed duped character, which is Klukai. Since I got her maxed, all the content of this game became a breeze to the point of auto play most of them will do just fine. Hence I used the rest of my resource for collecting dolls that I like, with a copy of them at minimum.

Since the content of the game is no longer a issue for me, I've started to spend for cosmetics and skins, so they look even more nice and entertaining. I bought the oath ring (similar to marrying your fav character) not for the stat, but for the unlockable story and conversation of the characters I like. I bought monthly pass, so I can gather resources for the upcoming characters and getting them.

I also closely follows our CN counterpart of the game, which they usually get everything first than the EN. I REALLY look forward to the implementation of the big dorm update since imo that what the game basically for. ONLY to be disappointed the moment I find out that the upcoming SKINS, COSMETIC PARTS, INTERACTIONS, WEAPON CAMOS, FURNITURES, are LOCKED behind the new feature called SKIN GACHA BANNER.

Imagine playing a game where all of the stuff in it are going to be gambled. Oh, it's not all of it yet, until you realized the gacha banner even has higher pity count than the already bad chance normal character and weapon banner. On top of that you can only buy the tickets from the premium currency which is can be obtained from straight buy with your money.

Oh btw, unlike other gacha games that have similar system, the gacha stuffs ARE NOT CLEARED OUT, and you need to fork for almost 200USD for a guarantee? and getting trash pulls repeatedly while at it?

"Bro it's not even 200, ONLY 100ish to get the skin"

Do you know there's another skin on that banner other than the main skin that the banner advertises? what if your pity got that instead? or maybe something worse like the fake rainbow box that comes with the garbage tokens used for trading items? (I saw the mechanics of the gacha alr). ALSO do you know the usual skin prices are? NOT EVEN HALF OF THAT.

"Bro relax, they are going to give it to you for free"

For playing over a year? and that's not even get to the pity count? am I supposed to be proud of getting ONE skin from a gacha game for playing it consecutively for a YEAR? what is this? is this war thunder? or the MICA simps are just beyond help? What about the next banner? will they give it another for free? maybe. Maybe you need to play for 2 years for that.

"Bro but it's not even affecting the gameplay, it doesn't even have stats"

Back to the first few pharagraph I wrote, what is this game is all about?

I'm here out of my own disappointment, did my own research not because of some CCs or community told me to go in solidarity. But hey turns out there are many people who "cares" about the game.

It's not about the price you need to fork out for the skin, I prolly could just save for a month or two and outright hardpity the banner for the skin and that's it. (I by no means a whale, but I spend alot)

It's about of setting a precedence of MICA testing it's playerbase loyalty by giving out predatory contents like this, which is a plain cashgrab in a broad daylight. I'm not a type of a guy who eats everything whatever the devs put on the plate, some people might do that, unfortunately.

I follow the resolution of the CN bros planned on 17th of this month. See the result, and decides if I should continue play this game. Worst case, theres alot of other games that I can spend to, while waiting for GFL3. Of course I really hope for the best, I do still want to play the game. And I hope that MICA won't go for another GFL1 route.

Loved this game. But the developers have officially doubled down on the HORRIBLE upcoming skin gatcha they sneaked into the Chinese version of the game.
Their masked slipped and now you can see how shady they are.
If they get away with this, they'll be bold enough to be even greedier and before you know it'll seep into the gameplay.
They used the door to the face tactic and there are people falling for it.

Alright class, welcome to Chad-sensei's Dark Pattern 101 Class! But first, some basic recap: we are in the midst of a controversy surrounding the implementation of a new skin gacha. Leading up to this the playerbase was already getting tired of dailies, weeklies, monthlies, middling content updates, story rewrites and lack of progress, and increasingly egregious powercreep (a week before this they released a character that attacks everyone on the map BEFORE THE STAGE STARTS... This game has 'PvP').
Following that, 2 weeks ago MICA surprise dropped an announcement for a new gacha type: skins. Until then skins could be bought for 10-20 dollars or so, but now premium skins would be locked behind a new gacha with a 100-pull pity. And no pity carryover between banners (meaning if you did 99 pulls on the previous banner, when the new one arrives your pity goes back to 0). And it only takes premium currency, allegedly requiring anywhere between 130-200$ on average to pull the skin you want. Oh and they announced this new gacha, 2 HOURS BEFORE IT DROPPED. On top of that they annoucned that a previously advertised feature of a skin they had already sold (Makiatto) was now locked behind the new skin gacha (fraud?). Now class, can you tell me what the issue is so far? That's right, everything I just said is anti-consumer, and moves away from the trends they had previously set to monetize players harder for minimal benefit. And the announcement was made to avoid player pushback because they knew it wouldn't be well received.

...So after the playerbase erupted they swore to meet with players within a day or two to discuss the problems. Upon attending players found out that no one in the building knew what they were talking about and all upper management went on vacation. They then announced that the meeting was rescheduled... to two weeks later (today). Now, today, (allegedly) before the meeting even ook place let alone was processed, they announced the changes: no pity carryover, premium currency only, and that new banners would 'only' appear after every 'major' patch. Oh and the Makiatto feature would be moved to an event instead of the gacha (which may be enough to avoid fraud... except anyone who misses that event will still not have it, even if they bought the skin). So if anyone in the class remembers the previous segment can they tell me what changed about the most egregious elements of the new skin gacha? That's right! Nadda.

TLDR: Game's going nowhere, company's getting uber-greedy and altering the deal, along with super insulting responses to players after just barely recovering from EOS. They ruined GFL1's story for this? If you want a better story go play FGO or Arknights. If you want to goon go play ZZZ or Snowbreak.

P.S. Don't mind playtime I play dedicated client. Lv 60, V6 Klukai, day one player.