While it's nice seeing new... stuff getting added, as a casual p2w even I gotta complain that I just dropped almost 200usd this last cycle just for a repeat p2w week to come out. Admittedly I typically just recharge for the monthly cards and leave it at that but... did we really ask for more new ninja rather than patches to fix persisting bugs or even events where saved coupons would be of use.

I can accept that Team Instance went from a grind to a horrible RNG grind, which makes me regret ever griping about getting unlucky with equipment pulls considering now once a week I might pull 1 piece of equipment out of all the runs. I was fine with group activity rewards being removed... I can accept that recharge events are prioritized to give the people involved with maintaining and staffing the servers a holiday bonus, but how did we come to this?

If its an increase in hosting costs why not add a function for users in merged servers to be required to choose which account is continued instead of some players having what appears to be 20+ alt accounts that simply take space and are used to farm activity/funds for groups. Even going as far as the unlocked ninja and inventory merging would ensure that users would have few if any complaints and even possibly get some players to be excited over server merges instead of the event being reviled for destroying groups and driving casual f2p to start over in a new launch server or out right quit the game.

Now that's unrealistic at this point.500 coupons is paltry these days thanks to the number of ways one can farm coupons, I'm not saying 8k coupon Τrash/meme ninja are fully justifiable but it is fair to expect to drop 1200-1500 coupons on a mediocre 2 star that will take a year to farm up to 3 star as a f2p (guren,Iruka,gnw1010 ex.). You're expected to save up to drop for a new ninja that will change your team in a serious way for weeks to come rather than attempt to pull the flavor of the week, hence my personal issue with them doing back to back drops that are equally good but have high cost (whether real money or farmed coupon cost)

I mean I didn't need Holiday Karin but I already road mapped the use I'd get from the char before investing, unlike Sakura who has several farmable variants I reasoned a status dealer was more worthwhile than another generic healer (esp when gnw and cloak sakura are still in the meta).