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I'm just ranting to myself, so don't mind me:
(I've been playing this game OFFLINE for WEEKS now... and I've just about gone crazy over this particular "feature" of GGST.)
Guilty Gear Strive's "Fishing" gimmick is the WORST Gacha I have ever played. You literally need at least 10 fish to unlock something WHICH KEEPS GETTING RESET.
In order to get currency, you need to level up your profiles EVERY FIVE LEVELS, which is insanely hard to do OFFLINE. I absolutely REFUSE to spend $9.99 for a Month's worth of NETPLAY that will disappear after that Month is up JUST TO UNLOCK FREE CONTENT.
Guilty Gear Strive's gallery has at minimum 59 "Junk Tracks" that do absolutely nothing for you in-game except play in the gallery... it's like they did this on PURPOSE TO INFURIATE ME.
All the "Battle Tracks" are the HARDEST THINGS to unlock... because of JUNK TRACKS and because of AVATAR PARTS that are ONLY USEFUL ONLINE.
Because of this... I have owned DLC I bought with MY MONEY that has been "locked" behind Gacha for WEEKS and they just WON'T UNLOCK.
Now, I could SIMPLY "give in" and spend that $9.99 for Netplay purposes and just fight and defeat some Level 30+ random person with every character in the roster I have mastered.... but you have to understand the PRINCIPLE OF THE IDEA...
Promising tracks and content for a game and LOCKING it behind a very poorly built Gacha system is the HEIGHT OF TYRANNY.
I've played Guilty Gear Strive on STEAM for FREE ONLINE ever since the game was released... that is nearly 1,000+x LONGER than the time needed to "Time Release" all FREE content in Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R.... a game that has YET to be released on PS4 and PS5 (I feel sorry for future gamers in that regard for never having played AC+R before).
I'm not gonna say "PC master race" here... that would be folly and arrogant... but I will say that game companies that build their games SOLELY around Netplay and Online content NEED TO RECONSIDER THEIR USERBASE AND MORALITY VALUES.
Right now I feel like I've been travelling in a SWELTERING DESERT because I can't access FREE CONTENT simply because of OFFLINE DISCRIMINATION. Like being promised WATER and having to SELL YOUR SOUL in order to DRINK IT.
Normally I would forgive most DLC content as attempts to MAKE PROFIT, but I do NOT appreciate having content DANGLED in front of my nose and having the odds of obtaining that content CONSTANTLY OUT OF REACH.
Maybe Japanese Culture "permits" the concept of Gacha and Roll Gambling... but I have GENUINELY AND TRUELY GOTTEN FED UP WITH IT.
If you haven't complained to ARC System Works about this yet... please DO. I give you my blessing. I've already mentioned it to them previously... More offline content would be nice... more ways to earn currency would be nice OFFLINE.
Even something as simple as VS CPU mode would be a nice feature THAT NOBODY except Frenchbread and Project Soul ever thought of...
Sigh... okay, rant over... go on with your lives...
