My Problem With Twisted Wonderland

My problem with Twisted Wonderland

As someone who used to consistently play every single day for months, I've got a lot of issues. Let me preface this by saying I know nothing I'm saying will change the game and how it runs, I just want to come here and rant about the game I used to love.

Rant below the cut

My biggest problem is how grindy the game is, especially as a strict f2p player.

As someone who's never spent money on the game, it is so easy to tell how much of a cash grab the game is. The people that work on the game care about it I'm sure, but it is so hard to do anything in this game.

It's hard to get SSR cards, not only because the Gacha system is hella fucked up, but because it's hard to get enough gems to get pulls. Yeah we've got weekly and the logins, but that's so not enough unless you save for a card months in advance.

When you're a new player they give you some leeway, lots of free stuff because all the easy missions are meant for that, but as you get further and further into the game it's extremely hard to get even a 10 pull unless you're on the game basically 24/7.

As someone who is rank 72- and again, played almost religiously for months- it's hard to enjoy the game.

And I know as the story goes on it's meant to be harder, but because of how little they give you it's hard to get past the story as it goes on. It's hard leveling cards up, especially the spells.

It would be nicer if they gave you more materials or gems, that would make all the grind worth it, but that's not how it is. Hell, even events barely give you any pulls and yet they expect you to spend hours doing lessons to unlock the chapters and leveling up the free cards. Someone who's f2p (in my and my friends experience) will find it hard to get motivation to continue playing.

I want to continue playing, I love the characters and the story, but it's so hard to level up cards, or get pulls, that it breaks my heart and makes me want to not continue because I know I won't ever get that card I want, that I won't be able to get past this chapter, that I won't be able to finish an event fully because of the system.

It's so obvious they don't care about f2p's because reruns and even some event banners are strictly p2p things. Rerun banners require special keys that are pay-walled, event banners like the anime expo ones or special non-event related ones are pay-walled, THEY'RE ALL PAY-WALLED.

To me it is extremely frustrating to know that the developers don't seem to care about the fan base at all.

I mentioned earlier about the Gacha system, which I find really, REALLY dumb. 100 pulls for a guaranteed SSR? 200 needed for the event SSR? That's so dumb! Even if you were p2p you'd have to have some extreme luck to get an event card before at least 70 (which it's hard to get if you're far in game and f2p). In my experience, all the event cards I have that are SSR's (WHICH IS 2 BTW, ive been playing since idia's groom event and only have TWO EVENT CARDS EVEN WITH CONSTANT GRIND) I had to do over 70-80 pulls for and spent weeks grinding for. Not to mention pity doesn't carry over to other banners.

Speaking of events, I swear to god the events are getting shorter and shorter every time. The Stitch event that just passed? I swear it only lasted 3-4 weeks, banners ended way too quickly for any f2p that wasn't saving to pull without extreme luck to get any SSR card, got forbid the event exclusive ones. I got like 25 pulls during that event and 10 of those were because it was Kalim's birthday. It's extremely dumb and next thing you know it events will be lasting only a week or two and you're probably fucked over.

Anyways, that's basically all I have to say. There are a lot of things that frustrate me, like how they do events and some characters stuff, but I can't bother to put it here because I'm not as pressed about that stuff as I am about the stuff I did talk about.

I'm aware that people probably won't read this, but it's nice to get off my chest y'know? I'm going to continue to play the game, but I'll never play as constantly as I did when I first started because it's so hard to play and find motivation for it anymore.

That's what I've been saying

Why is Q such a slut. Like whats his problem.

There's something about the internet and mental disorders. I'm saying this as Audhd and having ED. What is up with people infantilizing and romanticizing lol. Did Lord Byron depression personified possessed everyone?

I've honestly got no idea!! As someone who's autistic I've experienced infantilization and it's SO annoying.

Honestly people will romanticize anything nowadays and I actually hate it. Romanticizing is so harmful to many groups, especially if it's something illegal (CAUGH CAUGH 'BOOKTOK').

Pisses me off that these problems are so big in society when they're obviously harmful to everyone that's actually got/has had whatever it is.

Once again it's probably just majority people who think everything should still be about them even when they aren't at all related to the thing because of how privileged they are.

@edeneffect @demilypyro Just to add to the shipping PSA on the views of aroace shipping culture on Gwen Poole, additional perspective from a fellow aroace here:

You don’t have to be sexually/romantically attracted to someone in order to date them. There’s many different kinds of attraction, like aesthetic, intellectual, platonic, etc.

An aroace person could still be attracted to someone in non-romantic ways. As a result, they may choose to date that person to make them happy, despite not being into it themselves.

Another example is that an aroace person could actually enjoy dating, but still not feel the attraction. Just because they don't feel drawn to it doesn't mean they can't like the idea of dating or think it’s fun as an activity. Some may also get something non-romantic out of it that serves them just as well.

There’s also a lot of people on the aro/ace-spectrum who CAN feel romantic/sexual attraction, but it’s so rare or the conditions are so specific that they still fall under the aroace umbrella because they’re outside what’s considered the standard for attraction.

And of course Queerplatonic Relationships (QPRs). Shipping is still well-allowed for these, respectfully approached.

Hi! I'm not sure why you put this in my inbox, but as someone of the ace-spec myself I'm very aware of all of this!

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Y'know, I really hate Twisted Wonderlands Gacha system.

Almost 50 pulls, 2 SSRs, and no Idia! It shouldn't be this hard 😭 I'm at my limit.