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f2p blacklisted for 5*

Has any f2p players has felt like they are not getting any new 5* even after spending lot of f2p orbs (almost 350 for me) and feels like they have been blacklisted.

Looking back it seems like it started around after we got 1.2 update. Since then i have spent around
1) 95+ orbs in the hero fest banner and got nothing.
2) 130+ orbs on bride banner only on colorless but only got one 5* lucius and no brides.
3) 110+ orbs on vantage banner for Reinhardt and summoned from only blues and got nothing not even a 4* reinhardt.

I already had 14 5* before the 1.2 update.

I have another phone which is rooted so i can create a dummy account anytime and see if i am getting any 5*. Here is some of my observation:
1) I have tried in dummy accounts and got 2-3 5* with just around 40-50 orbs on the same banners as above.
2) I don't believe that pure luck can be so bad that 95+ orbs on hero fest which had higher chance and then again 130+ and 110+ orbs on other banners is not giving any focus units or any decent one.
3) Tested summoning on dummy before and after main account and always got atleast 1 5* with much less orbs than main.
4) Almost feeling as if they have some ceiling for f2p like say tehy have 10 or 15 5* then summoning chances are completely ignored and just give 3 or 4 * units only.

Please share if anyone felt same. Or if you feel that it is just my luck. Soory for the long question.

Asked by U1quiorra1 year 6 months ago

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It happens sadly sometimes i got a 5 star Hero that i didn't wanted like 2 spring chrom while trying to roll for bumilla, similar to Hero fest with nianian which is Better than nothing, even Yesterday happened while trying for tharja i got a very shitty leo

Now that you say it, thinking about my "summoning story", I noticed that I summoned quite easily 12 five stars during the first 3 months... but then (from the from the focus on Alm/Ike/Hero fest) I used a lot of orbs and pulled almost nothing. You were much more unlucky than me for sure.. I really hope that is not a strategy to "bait" f2p players as you suppose.
A friend of mine viceversa was quite unlucky during the first 3 months, and then (from the Hero fest) he became VEEERY lucky (opposite of me)... so I like to continue thinking that pulling was really random

I honestly don't know if it's really bad luck or as you said a bait for F2P players.

But I also had this type of experience with summoning.
During my first 2-3 months I pulled a lot of five stars and some pretty good ones actually. I had a ryoma, ephraim, azura and tiki and some other okay guys.

But it seems recently that luck turned. In almost 2 month I only got 2 5* which are Maria and Merric, trash tier character.

It really really feels bothering the way it works.

And also at first I tought the fact the chance to summon a 5* unit is increase everytime we do a summon is cool, but then I realized that it's super frustrating because if you do many summon on a banner but you don't get a 5 star, you'll start back from scratch next banner.
Actually this is also one of the fact that makes me NOT want to pay for orbs. I feel like if I pay and don't get a 5* in the banner I would have just threw money away. If instead the 5* counter wasn't rested each banner I wouldn't feel so robbed of my money and I would feel at least like I invested in the next banner.

I agree with the idea of having pity rate (increased summon rate) shared across the different banners. I believe that this is something even paying players would find gr8.

Also i agree with some of peoples comments that they had bad luck earlier but then better luck later. My concern is with f2p players having some kind of psuedo limitation on number of 5* if such is the case. I read another thread where people were discussing the number of 5* they had if they were f2p and from that it seemed like most f2p were in range of 15-20 even the ones that started day 1. And since i have heard that in the beginning this game was giving more free orbs, so i assume that day 1 players had summoned much more than myself and also raise more 5* themselves from feathers.

While i agree that it could be just my bad luck. I think f2p players should keep an eye out if IS is deliberately doing this to lure people into spending

I feel it's luck. I had similar. Had a bunch of good 5*s (ryomas, takumi ect) then my luck tanked only pulling Leo Sheena and Cadea since Princes Gauntlet. But in bridal I pulled about 8 5* w/ two of the brides except no Cadea. So I feel it's just bad luck p and it may turn around any moment.

I have almost 30 5* and feeling no difference, still getting one 5* in about 2~3 full sessions
No money spent..

I'm f2p too but I haven't noticed anything. The only money that I've given Nintendo is $10 for Mario Run and 99 cents that I spent on Miitomo all on the same Nintendo account as FE Heroes.

I don't exactly remember when the updates occurred relative to what units I have but the worst drought that I can see in my obtained list is about 18 summonable units. That drought ended when I got Jaffar while trying for Takumi in the Hero banner. And the next longest drought I had was about 17 units and that started during week 1 or 2. That one ended when I got 5* Fae from god knows where and Seliph from his banner only 1 summon apart. I've summoned 22 five-star units from the summons from week 1 until now.

I feel like im in the same situation. Got 3~4 5star units with initial orbs but for the past 200 orbs or so I haven't got anything worth note. I think my issue is spending all my orbs once I save up 20.