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hisao@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Anyone into Genshin here? When do you think the urge to spend a lot starts? I’m AR19 now, I rolled 2 characters from 20 basic wishes (Noelle and Collei), and I think I have enough crystals and primos for maybe 10-20 wishes more which is likely to yield yet another 2 characters (or more if I’m lucky). At this point, I still have no clue when I should start wanting to spend real money. There seems to be so much content to earn primos and everything else I need organically.

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socsa@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This entire comment feels like brain rot to me

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- hisao@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  brain
  
  RPG enjoyers have talked like this since before computer games existed. I think D&D terminology for all their kinds of dice rolls and internal math would sound similar, but even more gibberish.
  
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caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I‘m just spending 5 bucks for Welkins, swiping is for when you really want a character and have nothing left. But even then you drop one Mario Kart World and that should get you what you want. I have no idea what the point in whaling is, there‘s nothing hard in the game that needs it, there‘s nothing that even needs constellations. Maxing out a character just makes their numbers bigger (which isn‘t needed, see above) and doesn‘t change anything about their gameplay. I really don‘t get it.

But since you‘ve just started, you‘ll notice that eventually you won‘t be swimming in resources anymore. Still, you should be able to get a character every other patch even if you‘re unlucky. I guess the biggest opening people give for swiping is banking on „winning“ the 50-50, and then they don‘t win (duh) and then they’re frustrated and force it. As for swiping a grand and up into C6, no idea.

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IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I haven’t played Genshin in a couple of years but it’s definitely one of the better ones from what I’ve seen. I played through f2p until I had a sense of the game and was confident in the content and monetization model. After that I did spend whatever it was, five bucks(?), for the “battle pass” but honestly as long as you have the time to grind then Genshin is fairly non-invasive. That grind is why I quit though, the end game was a slog.

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IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In my experience, the urge only begins once you’ve completed the entire openworld and run out of content other than the endgame dungeons (spiral abyss, imaginarium theater). You have a long way to go before that point.

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atotayo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I did play a lot a couple years ago completely f2p and in the late game the artifact farming gets really bad, to the point that you farm for weeks for one character. It’s not necessary to clear the story (at least in the past) but in the late abyss is mandatory and it kills any will to try off-meta/more fun builds. Still a lot of fun if you play casually.

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HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I only really ever got the urge to spend when I lost a 50/50 for a favorite limited banner character. I stopped playing and hopped to another game instead though, eheh

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