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monday4econlive · 1 year

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How Genshin Impact Took My Rationality Away

August 2, 2021: I think I can speak for everyone when I say that the pandemic freed up a lot of time on my hands. My whole first year of college was on Zoom University, and it has been going great! I have so much time to do nothing all day and even made zero new friends! …I truly need a new hobby. Perhaps I should pick up this game my friend recommended to me.

August 3, 2021: I haven’t slept. I downloaded Genshin Impact last night and have been playing ever since. I witnessed the sunrise — both in-game and in real life. My current mindset: play Genshin ≻ eat ≻ sleep. I'm pretty sure I can last without sleeping for at least another day, right?

August 26, 2021: I’m truly lost in the sauce now. Tartaglia has got to be my favorite Genshin character, closely followed by Zhongli. I recently joined the subreddit dedicated to Genshin leaks (aka spoilers for what is coming in future game patches) to see if either character would be on the next patch. Turns out it’s Raiden Shogun! Meanwhile, the current patch featured Ayaka and Yoimiya. My current preference is Tartaglia ≻ Zhongli ≻ Raiden Shogun ≻ Ayaka ∼ Yoimiya. I’m not really interested in the current patch’s characters, and Tartaglia and Zhongli don't seem to be rerunning any time soon. I’m also definitely more than okay with Raiden Shogun being my first 5-star character. Looks like it’s time to grind out primogems (in-game currency) before her release!

August 31, 2021: My hands are shaking. I won the 50/50 and got Raiden Shogun! It took me 74 pulls to get her, and I have only 6 pulls left. Wait a minute… the leaks subreddit is suddenly talking about a possible Tartaglia rerun in the next patch. There’s no way, right???

October 3, 2021: Primogems are quite the scarce resource in Genshin Impact considering how it’s the only way players can get new limited 5-star characters and weapons in the game. This really is a case of low supply and high demand. I’ve been playing this game every single day since I started a few months ago. The leaks turned out to be right. The Genshin livestream confirmed that Tartaglia is rerunning in the next patch. I’ve spent the last few weeks obtaining all the primogems I could get just to ensure that I could successfully pull for him. I now have a clear idea of how to spend my primogems: Tartaglia ≻ Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon.

October 12, 2021: The server maintenance just finished. Time to log in and pull for Tartaglia—and only him.

Well, that was unexpected! I ended up getting him quite early and only used 46 pulls. I still have quite a bit of pulls left… But I must resist the weapon banner! I cannot pull for Polar Star (Tartaglia’s signature weapon). I know my priorities: Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon (including Polar Star).

I don’t know what’s gotten into me… For some reason, my brain is suddenly thinking: Polar Star ≻ Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon (including Polar Star). "Tartaglia deserves it," says my brain. My hand moves the cursor to the weapon banner, and I end up pulling. 30 pulls in, I suddenly see this:

It’s Polar Star, right?! It's not. I didn’t get Tartaglia’s weapon and just wasted 30 pulls.

My rationality seemed to have left, but it’s back now. I’ve learnt my lesson. For sure now, Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon (including Polar Star). Time to close the weapon banner screen before I lose any more pulls to this scam of a banner!

My rationality has suddenly left me once again. I am now irrational; my preferences are definitely not transitive. Sunk cost fallacy has convinced me that: Polar Star ≻ Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon (including Polar Star). At a moment of weakness, I give in and quickly pull on the weapon banner before my rationality returns to tell me otherwise. 66 pulls in, and…

I GOT POLAR STAR!!! After this experience, I swear I will never lose my rationality again! I will never pull on the weapon banner again! Zhongli ≻ any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon.

March 16, 2023: I’ve been an active player on Genshin Impact for 586 days now. I got Zhongli, but did I touch the weapon banner again? I must admit that my word is as trustworthy as any American politician’s: completely worthless.

My rationality is gone with the wind when it comes to this game. I truly believe that any new 5-star character ≻ any new 5-star weapon. However, I somehow just keep making exceptions and end up pulling on the weapon banner. My most recent pull was on the weapon banner for goodness sake!

I wish I could say I was a rational Genshin player and stop pulling for all of these weapons, but it seems like an impossible task for me. All of those pulls that could have gotten me multiple new characters were spent on making my current characters look cooler with their signature weapons instead. Primogems are as limited as ever, yet I still do stuff like this. Perhaps, I'll become a rational player one day...

Cindy Lee ~ ID#65585808 ~ Mon. 4pm

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microclee · 1 year

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How Genshin Impact Took My Rationality Away

October 12, 2021: The server maintenance just finished. Time to log in and pull for Tartaglia—and only him.

It’s Polar Star, right?! Nope. I didn’t get Tartaglia’s weapon and just wasted 30 pulls.

Cindy Lee ~ ID#65585808

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pyreo · 3 years

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I think I broke Genshin Impact

Here’s what happened yesterday - I’ve been stacking up funds for months for whenever they brought Childe back. I already have him but because he’s my favourite I want the extras. If you aren’t aware of the chances in this particular gacha den, you have a base 0.6% chance to roll a 5-star. If you get one, it also flips a coin to decide if you get the promotional one on the banner, or a random different one.

So for the most part people assume they will ‘earn’ the character by sinking in rolls until the pity mechanic kicks in, which is what I was doing. (I’ve NEVER pulled any 5-stars off pity.) I’m 40 wishes towards pity, and also 40 on the weapon banner, so I thought I’d try for that too.

The goal? C1 Childe (no coin flip needed, guaranteed, and had enough wishes, so I knew I could get him, no chance needed) and then to throw some wishes at the weapon banner (FAR more unkind in pity, so so hard to get what you want) but not waste everything I have.

Started off going for 1st weapon pity. 25 pulls in, pity happens, get a 5-star. Coin flip, and it’s a Memory of Dust, not Childe’s signature weapon. That’s a shame. I get the first feeling like my big wish night is heading for cold disappointment.

But I saved quite a bit, so just for a bit of a flex before going back to the character banner, I slap down a 10-pull on there and

I just get it. Childe’s pretty bow, immediately after getting another 5-star at the pity mark.

So figuring that was my allocation of luck for the entire year. I’m over the moon. I get the weapon AND can then pay for my guaranteed C1 with loads of gems to spare.

I do single pulls until he shows up, the Discord peanut gallery politely applauds - again, there was no chance involved to get him.

I say goodnight to everyone in chat and sit there, thinking. I’m gonna have to build up my pity again probably for Itto or something. So there’s no harm in sinking more wishes in here, especially since Chongyun’s on rate-up and I don’t have him yet.

I randomly do one more 10-pull and

Sobbing and spinning and throwing up what?????? The LAST thing I pulled was Tartaglia and my first multi got ANOTHER ONE

I go message everyone who just said goodnight that I actually have C2 some-fucking-how (and Chongyun yaay), and while reeling from that, I’m like, this is a fluke. This is ridiculous. I wish one more time. Get a 3-star weapon. Okay.

I wish another one time.

And now I have a C3 Harbinger with his signature 5-star weapon

I’m f2p

#genshin impact #DON'T PLAY GACHA GAMES #all the fun of having to BUDGET yourself #long post

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otomelavenderhaze · 3 years

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I can see you're rolling for Raiden, good luck!! She's really been growing on me because I realized how cool she is despite being indifferent and unhinged, but I thing she'll understand in the end

Yes, I'm!!

But only because I've done 80 pulls on Yoimiya's banner and I didn't get any Sayu or Yoimiya, so I need to reset my hard pity with a character that I wouldn't mind have and actually like, before the next update so I can pull in whatever banner Tohma comes!!

So I'm literally only doing at most 20 pulls on Baal's banner, with the risk of not getting Sara </3 because I wanna get Tohma.

Also, in this situation, I would be fine if I lose the 50/50, because I'm actually aiming for the re-runs that we're getting in the future. I'm counting that the next re-runs will be either Ganyu or Hutao (from those two, if they come together, I will probably choose Hutao since I have her signature 5-star weapon - that I pulled for Zhongli, but I have a 5-star weapon for him already).

But If I don't lose the 50/50 at least I will have a strong character that is getting a strong 4-star weapon for free in the game and that will boost my damage greatly, so it's gonna be a win-win situation.

I changed my plans after seeing that Tohma is coming next update kkkkkk if I lose Baal now, I will wait for her re-run and try again kkkkkkkkk I'm hyped for her, but Tohma is the one that has my heart on Inazuma </3 I'M SORRY BAAL.

I guess, my thing with Baal is that I understood her better since the start, I realized that her actions are one's dictated by grief and deeply emotional wounds (even before any of her trailers dropped)...... and that does not erase all the bad she has done for her ppl, either excuse her selfish behavior. I see her for what she is. And I believe that she will have to be held accountable for everything she has done so far.

Mihoyo would never reward Baal for her self behavior, not when she made her ppl suffer this much, I will be there when Signora and Scaramouche kick Raiden off her high moral ground - she's begging to be betrayed by the Fatuis.

And that's why I feel comfortable pulling for her.

Also, I have said this before, but I love polearm and claymore users. That's why I main Zhongli and Eula, Baal as a polearm user and one hand sword user is right up my ally.

I cannot wait for this ask not to age well KKKKKKKKKKKK like, me speaking about a re-run for Hutao or Ganyu and we get Xiao, Albedo, a Diluc banner or something KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

But thank you for wishing me luck, anon!!

#personal #ask #Fa talking about Genshin Impact #actually my hype for raiden is more my hype for the update itself #Imma gonna play it TODAY #I will not sleep #it's super rare for me to eat up a update on the day it drops #I always wait for the next day #but with that trailer I cannot sleep without being sure that Raiden will not kill Kazuha

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mayhapitwasme · 6 years

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King’s Knight Service Termination + Content Map Up to End-Date

So as you may have heard, the spin-off game "King's Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon" or to most of us just "King's Knight" is being officially terminated by Square-Enix. This is saddening to hear as many of us really enjoyed the game, even if it did have a tendency to crash or straight up not work for some, it seemed that the development team behind it were genuinely passionate about the project and wanted everyone to enjoy the work they put out to its fullest. Below I've decided to put together a bit of write-up of relevant information alongside some personal thoughts in regards to this service termination.

Official Date & Time of Service Termination

All Prime Regalite (Premium Currency) sales have been removed from the game, and the official date and time of service termination will be 26th June 01:00 (GMT) and 25th June 18:00 (PST) respectively. As some of you may know, this was also the fate of another FFXV spin-off game "Justice Monsters V" which was released on 30th August 2016 and officially ended services on 27th March 2017 meaning it only lasted just shy of 7 months before termination (Although the app itself is still available to download on both iOS and Android, cannot say how the compatability with current OS versions is however). King's Knight was officially released 13th September 2017, and with the final day of service being 26th June 2018, it lasted a bit over 9 months.

Free stamps (basically the game's emotes) have been added to all player's stamp collections to farewell the game and its players. You do not have to do anything to actually obtain these, they've been automatically added to the list of stamps and all you have to do it equip them into your active stamps list (max of 5) to use them.

FFXV Collaboration Event Exchange Available Again!

If you played the game during the FFXV Collaboration Event, but forgot to exchange your points for your rewards before the deadline, then the exchange is back and will be up until the service for King's Knight officially ends! Note: This is only a return of the exchange and not the points being rewarded again, you can only use the exchange if you already had points you attained during the run of the event. Prizes have also not been reset, so that means if you already got all your codes then you won't be eligible for anymore. It's really only a noteworthy thing if you picked up the game for those particular prizes, but completely forgot to exchange them in the allotted time- you have 3 months to get your codes from now pretty much. If you completely missed the event and have no fellowship points, then it looks like you're out of luck unfortunately.

The wording in this particular sentence:

Furthermore, BBS updates will continue to be made for Event Accessory Exchanges

Might confuse some people, so just in case any of you were under the perception that this means we're getting more BBS banter, then let me inform you that: this is not the case. It just means that anyone who had not previously unlocked the banter will be able to unlock it if they trade their fellowship points in for any of the FFXV Collaboration Event accessories. There is no new banter or DMs from the bros (sad times) and there probably never will be, at least not in King's Knight.

Primer For Rest of This Post

They tended to do events in a pattern, 1 that started in the middle of the month which spanned a fortnight (14 days) that would reward players with 1 free 5-Star character (unique to the event) and a matching signature weapon which you could get from the relevant event exchange (also unique to the event) that both required event-specific drops to upgrade, there were always 3 tiers of these event-specific drops and they were essentially "Common, Uncommon, Rare" with each succeeding tier dropping in smaller amounts than the last. If you didn't farm all the drops to fully upgrade your free character and weapons before the event ended and the missions were removed, then you were basically stuck with a character that can't be fully upgraded, ever. These events also tended to come with time-limited characters and weapons which you could have a chance at obtaining via the "spin" feature using Regalite (basically gacha pulls).

The second event in the pattern was the end-of-month events which ran for a month (28 days), these events basically told the story of a batch of new characters that would be permanently added to the summoning pool, however you did not get a free character or weapon from participating in the event. These events had 1 event-specific drop, which could be traded in for accessories and resources to help you in other areas of the game.

Both types of events rewarded large amounts of free regalite (usually up to 300 regalite per event) and on top of that there were also event dailies you could run to get some extra regalite, as well as additional event-specific goals which you could also achieve for additional free regalite. For reference: 1 Character Summon Cost 25 Regalite, 10+1 Character Summons Costs 250 Regalite (You get 1 free if you do the 10 at once pull), 1 Weapon Summon Cost 15 Regalite, 10 Weapon Summons Cost 150 Regalite (Unlike with characters, you didn't get a free one from doing the 10 at once pull). There were also once-daily Prime Regalite (Regalite bought with real money) spins: 10 Prime Regalite for 1 Character, 100 Prime Regalite for 11 Characters (+1 for the 10 at a time pull once again), 5 Prime Regalite for 1 Weapon, 50 Prime Regalite for 10 Weapons (Again no extra for pulling 10) there were varying bonuses to Prime Regalite spins (it varied between events and particular pull banners), the bonuses inlcuded: 4-Star pulls guaranteed to be from newest batch or 4-Star guaranteed in 10-pulls, there may well be some other bonuses that I never saw (I didn't play the game for like a month) but those are the 2 I'm familiar with.

Each individual mission in an event gave at least 4 regalite each (if each respective goal was achieved) upon your first completion, the same applied to multiplayer variants of events (which came in 2 difficulties: Veteran and Master), the goals tended to be very easy stuff like "Open All Treasure Chests" or "Complete Mission with a [Character Class] in your Party"

Content Map - March

Labyrinth of Chaos

So, it looks like this will be the last character debut event before they start winding things down. Which saddens me, greatly, as I really liked the events where you got free characters, not only because "Hooray, free shit!" but because it gave me an actual goal in the game, and being really into grindy games, I really enjoyed grinding those events into the wee hours of the morning when I was totally meant to be asleep but was instead trying to farm enough resources to max out that new event weapon...

As mentioned previously, the 28-day long events came with new characters and weapons that were permanently added to the summoning pool

Final Boss Challenge

Boss Challenges (or "Weekend Boss Challenge") were boss-fight-only missions released every weekend to challenge the player-base to see who could get the best score, you could get rewards based on your overall rank on the scoreboards, you typically got some exchangeable items and some event-specific items from whatever event was running at the time.

It looks like the final one is going to be against Tolfidan himself (the infamous "Dark Dragon", who isn't really that dark considering he's fire-aspected...and bright red in colour.), which I'm quite sure is one they actually already did, but there isn't a whole lot of detail given here, so we'll see how different it actually is when it comes around

Aedin's Workshop

This was basically a place where you could got to exchange boss challenge rewards for better rewards...which were then used to exchange for weapons of your choice! Event accessories are also amongst the list of things you can exchange for, as well as experience tomes, and globus/crystals for character/weapon upgrading!

8-Bit Quest Redux

They've had this previously, but they removed it (I'm not sure if it was time limited or they just removed it for other reasons), not entirely sure if this is going to be a 1 mission type dealy or a series of missions, I think the original mission was only 1 really easy mission with classic sprites and chiptune music.

Past Event Redux

You know how I mentioned those even-specific and unique characters before, the ones that you could only upgrade via event-specific items otherwise you were stuck with a unupgradable character forever? Well, this is basically your last chance to remedy that before the service for the game ends, if you didn't finish farming and upgrading your event-unique characters, then you'll have one last chance at it before service ends!

Not sure if this also means you can get the characters again if you missed out on them, I'm going to guess you will be able to because they're also resetting the exchanges for the respective events so we'll be able to exchange for event-unique weapons and stuff again. Pretty much: get ALL THE THINGS before this shit shuts down.

The Story Finale

Not much to say about this, as not much is given, but it sounds like there will be a conclusions to the game's story!

Mega-Spins!

You know those time-limited characters/weapons I mentioned before? They're bringing them all back in the mega-spin!..at least that's what I'm kind of assuming, because otherwise it's just a regular spin with all characters that were permanently put into the pool...Either way: OBTAIN ALL THE THINGS.

Finale Bonus

Sweet jeebus, 125 regalite every day until service ends...that means you'll be able to do a 10+1 character pull every other day, that's a lot of regalite.

All Daily Quests Available

These were basically rotating quests (each tied to a specific day of the week) where you could farm for a specific aspect of drops that you needed to upgrade characters and weapons, there was also one of Zell (the in-game world's currency), all of the quests being available at once means you won't have to wait for the right day to farm that one resource you need!

In Conclusion

I said it at the start, and I'll say it again at the end here: This is sad news. I'm currently wondering whether or not anything can be done to save this game, mayhaps crowdfunding or something to help the devs buy all the games rights Hitman-style? That being said, King's Knight was a Square-Enix property much older than Hitman was, it was originally an NES title released in Japan in 1986 and North America in 1989 back when Square was still its own separate company. From what I've heard it was a decently popular title in Japan, but not so much in North America, so acquiring all the rights would not be quite the same as it was for the Hitman series. That all being said, I'm not even sure there would be enough interest, especially enough monetary interest to successfully crowdfund such a thing.

The studio who worked on the game "Fire Flame Hearts" (would help if I remembered the name properly) is not a company I've been able to find any further information on I take that back, if I'd actually looked for the ACTUAL company name then I would have found this: Flame Hearts is a Subsidiary of DIGITAL Hearts Co., Ltd., also their website (in Japanese) the only reason I even know that name is because it's in the pre-roll credits when you load up the game. By the sounds of it, they're a bit of an indie studio though, a pretty small team of developers who had been chosen for this project. They did some livestreams, although I never caught any of them, and they actual devs behind the game seem like genuinely passionate people who just want to make games and content for people to enjoy. I wonder what they'll do after the game officially closes down. Either way, it seems that they've taken this news of their game being cut as a signal to "GIVE EVERYONE ALL THE THINGS FOR FREEEEE!", which is exactly what they're doing with the 125 free regalite a day and all this other content before services end. They had plans for a "hardmode" for the campaign, but that never came to fruition, the last we heard of it was in the New Years "Update Map" they posted back in January.

Well...Whatever happens next, I wish the team at "Flame Hearts" and anyone else who were involved in the development and support of this game the best, and hope that they can move on to bigger and better things. I hope to hear of games from some of these people a few years down the line, because they seem like some pretty swell people.

I have no idea why I decided I needed to basically write an article for this bloody game...but I guess I just kinda realized how attached I actually am to it, it kinda became a small part of my life, and now I have to bid farewell to it...So childish part of me really hopes that we can possibly save it, but the fan-base it probably not nearly big enough for it.

If you've never heard of this game, or have heard of it but never got around to trying it then: DO IT NOW you have 3 months before you won't be able to play anymore because they'll take the servers down, at the very least pick it up to see what could have been (if it doesn't horribly crash for you, I've heard that happens with some people, I've been lucky) and maybe feel compelled enough by what you experience to go write to Square-Enix about it, or if you have a negative experience, then...idk maybe you can still write to Square-Enix about it, or make some kind of rant post like I would :P But in my opinion: The game is still worth checking out, even if services are going to be ending, don't you at least want to know what the gameplay was like for yourself?

Anywho, I'll finish off with some links to stuff: King's Knight has it's own Official Twitter Page that's separate from Square-Enix's and FFXV's, if you have or use Twitter then hop over there and send them your best wishes. On the flipside there's the Official FFXV Twitter where this news was first broken, and of course the Offical Square-Enix Twitter if you want to go and ask them "Y U DO DIS?!"

That about covers everything...If anyone has any kind of questions I guess I'll try my best to facilitate answers? I'm just a gamer who came to the realization that I was more attached to this game than I initially thought though, I'm not in anyway actually affiliated with King's Knight or anything, so...ye...Still hit me up if you have questions about the game (like if you're picking it up to give it a try, but are confused and stuck, then gimme a shout and I'll see if I can help), okay, cheers for reading, byeeee!

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