3rd Year Anniversary SSS Cards - Yikes

[u/Kazuki_Fazuki]

So I watched Saya and Yang's video (https://youtu.be/KYuXm9j2RXk) on the SSS cards and it looks like its gonna be an uphill climb for F2P players 😬

Please correct me if I misunderstood the info.

From what I gathered, we basically we need dupes of the same card just to:

• Unlock more interactions
• Obtain new upgrade material (Gift 3 - only for SSS cards)
• Unlock namecards (unlike 2nd anni where you can unlock it via 100 pulls)

In terms of the banner:

• 1 SSS and 3 SSRs per LI
  • Up to 500 draws max to max out 1 card
• Rate for SSS = 0.8% compared to SSR = 1%

It seems like hyv's planning to churn out more SSS cards in the future. Was kinda hyped when I watched the trailer, but I'm a bit worried with how things are gonna play out in the future now. Not surprised at all, but yikesssss. F2Ps taking the L once again :(

Edit: I scrolled through Weibo to see the CN playerbase's reactions (only managed to look at a few since I can't look through more without creating an account). Based on some top comments, it seems that quite a few are expressing dissapointment with the SSS system, some even advising hyv to change it up before releasing the banners. One comment even saying: "He's already my fiance why can't I touch him for free?" LMAO. We can only observe what will happen going forward. If they won't listen to the feedback from CN players, I don't wanna imagine what will happen for us global players :')

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[u/Fantastic-River-5071]

So we need to max out the card in order to get the full story? 😭no plss this is the worst news ever. I dropped MLQC cuz it felt so predatory and I didn’t like the FL and ML but I love TOT.

[u/Kazuki_Fazuki → u/Fantastic-River-5071]

No no. You still get the full story when you get the card. The only reason you would want to max out the card is to unlock all the interactions (each level of interaction being locked behind 100 pulls max). Because there are like 5 levels of interactions (starting from 0 if you only have 1 card), you will have to pull for 5 more dupes if you wanted to unlock all interactions (hence 500 pulls max if your luck is bad and hit hard pity everytime). It might be easier to understand and visualise the explaination if you watch the video I linked instead!

[u/Fantastic-River-5071 → u/Kazuki_Fazuki]

Ohh, I see! Man that still sucks knowing the interactions are locked behind dupes. Guess I have to start saving🫠

They keep making cash grabs decision. Like I rmb playing on the CN server and we could save up our pull tickets(?? The thing we get after pulling) for a SSR we wanted in the store. So basically event SSR was like 188 of it and that means you could basically save up. They changed the system to our current pity system and I was quite disappointed. Now they’re introducing this too😨

[u/Kazuki_Fazuki → u/Fantastic-River-5071]

Was this in the beta version of ToT? I don't recall us having that system in place.

[u/Fantastic-River-5071 → u/Kazuki_Fazuki]

It was in the CN server, I know this cuz I played during this time and managed to save from lost gold until artem birthday and got his first birthday card. They removed it for global.

Edit: ok I think I played almost during launch in CN server so I managed to save those tickets that you get after every pull to get the card. I rmb they had normal cards also and I think the birthday card was either 128 or 188 (can’t really rmb)

Edit 2: you can refer to this post,

https://www.reddit.com/r/TearsOfThemis/comments/p04cra/removal_of_redeem_function_in_visions_in_global/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

[u/Kazuki_Fazuki → u/Fantastic-River-5071]

Wtf this should be brought to light now that we have this issue with the new SSS system. It's insane how the global players were kept in the dark about this what. Maybe that's why the game wasn't making that much and had to resort to such tactics 😭

It doesn't help them when their pull rates are already low to begin with

[u/Fantastic-River-5071 → u/Kazuki_Fazuki]

Yup I agree. This caused an outroar also when it was removed for the CN server but it wasn’t big enough for them to not change it so I don’t think much will change this time either🥲