>>58212480To me, this anniversary feels particularly low effort after an insanely predatory year. EX Master Fairs are genuinely shocking to me because they are the ONLY new fair type that aren't more anti-consumer or a trade-off. Each year it gets worse, from Arc Fairs reselling you the same characters and starting to run in ADDITION to Master Fairs while having a steeper spark rate and now repeating types, superawakening not being feasible for non-whales no matter how dedicated they are, Academy performance being tied to RNG and having the promoted characters, Mix scouts being actual paid-only characters, Variety scouts having almost no effort 90% of the time, 5* general characters being so low priority that they don't get "unique" sync move animations anymore unless they're from Alola (which are shared between them, and not even with Ryuki based on a technicality) and only feel compelled to release them during anniversaries that are already squeezing you dry, etc.
I'm so tired of the sheer volume of extremely low effort "alts" that reuse a character model, voice lines, and have a generic syncs. Lodge pairs, Damage Challenge, Battle Points vouchers, a number of event freebies, mix scouts, and variety scouts are so tiring, but anything more is too premium.
Another Red and another Charizard, yay
Clever theme with the 006 / 006 / 006 Fire starters, whatever with Terastallizing, story isn't that interesting.
As greedy as Arc Suits are, I'm at least interested in where the story is going with Volo and certain characters, though it'll probably be a wet fart of an ending like a lot of the arc endings. 19 new pairs and only four of them aren't recycled models.
So yeah, EX Master Fairs are a nice idea. We got fucked so hard this year that I had just expected a continuous downward spiral, but I feel like this is DeNA saying "Hey, please don't stop playing, we'll throw you a morsel".
