They're really desperate for our money aren't they

You might be starting to understand why i'm so critical about a game I put so much effort into.

Yes they make money, no it's not as shitty as your making it out to be.

I always ask this when people make FEH look shitty.

Have you played FGO, or Dragalia, or any other popular Gaccha and seen their rates and the shit they pull? If not, go take a look, go see how bad pulling can be, and go look at how unlucky their players tend to be when the rates are abyssmally low).

Other than that. I'm not defending the company per se. I'm just confused how ya'll are so mad over something that was more than likely going to happen. If you seriously find this so annoying I love to see your reaction on the horror stories of other gacchas. Cause those games, oh boy those are probably highway robery.

Thats the thing though. You're taking this far too seriously and getting mad at a video game for starters. The biggest error is taking a game so seriously you're made at a fucking character type added to a game, no wonder.

First off reaching said high tiers is still very much possible, does it require more work, hell yeah, and you gotta be efficient all the times, it's possible though so it's really not such an enormous deal. If you wanna talk about the game being P2W watch Akariss and watch how he clears most of his content as a F2P. And hell, there's room to move in what he does, so you can be F2P and pull for fun.

Second of all, the game is good, it's not a bad game for what it's worth. It's a free game and you can pay or not pay for commodities that speed up your progress, once again, T21 is hard to get too but not impossible as a F2P. Same for Aether Raids, just gotta focus your efforts. You're making this seem like it's impossible. This isn't Arena where buying all +10 units assures you a spot. Here in aether raids it assures you a slight advantage and if your tactical mind is still ass you'll lose to defense teams so I don't see this as purely P2W. Is there an advantage, yeah, but it's not as bad as you're making it out to be.

Third. What kind of games are you talking about that are "tasteful"? The most popular F2P games are similar to this in micro transactions. Look at FGO, Dragalia, hell Granblue even. Theres TCG's like Hearthstone that do this where card packs cost money. Clash of clans, castle builders, etc. All mobile games, if not at least the large majority, have micro transactions or adds.

It's not embarassing, it's how these work. And to be fair you're saying this is an embarassment when this is by far the kindest, most player friendly gaccha I've played and I've played alot of them, hell I've been playing gaccha's for 6 years and I hate other games for how scummy they are, most FEH players don't even know how abyssmally bad the rest of the gaccha's in existence are.

Go play FGO, save up about 1k of your hard earned currency, that is earned by grinding the same map for around 2-3 hours without auto battle for a few days at a time, and pull in a banner to not get a single character and let me know how bad it is then. Cause until you've experienced that level of let down, you haven't experienced anything yet my dude XD

And last but not least. Salty, is a colloquial term for mad, or angry. You're getting your knickers in a twist over the use of a word related to a condiment to signify anger when it's just a commonly used term.

TLDR; Alotta salt over one of the kindest most F2P friendly mobile games I've known.