#crystals to be guaranteed the outfit in question and that's one of the cheapest ones

[myautisticpov]

On the one hand, the value proposition of paying for the crystals for the gacha mechanic in Infinity Nikki is so bad, it cancels out my ADHD susceptibility to those kinds of mechanics

But on the other, like, the existence of the ability to pay for them at that price suggests someone more susceptible than me, and that's worrying...

(also read my tags before arguing with me, i've just realised i've basically put an essay in there)

[myautisticpov]

Sorry, no, just for context, I put in my OG tags that buying one of the outfits would cost £50, assuming you were only getting the guaranteed 4* items (admittedly, you will likely get more, but that's not guaranteed, I'm just calculating what's guaranteed)

But that was based on the bundles, and I had assumed that the most expensive bundle would work out cheapest, but then I glanced at them again and realised that wasn't right, buying the cheapest bundle would actually net you twice as many crystals for the price

But then I saw that the bundles were limited, so you could only buy one of each

So I was like, okay, people are definitely paying for these outfits though, so how are they doing it?

The way I'm getting crystals is by earning diamonds through gameplay and buying them (again, perfectly possible, as I'm doing it, but I'm still in the early game, so I'm getting a lot through progression and exploration that will probably dry up later, and I'm also putting an autistic amount of hours in while I'm off work for xmas and before I'm busy with holiday stuff)

So, one crystal costs 120 diamonds. There's a button to buy diamonds, so I click that. You buy diamonds with the premium currency (stellarite) and they seem one to one. So 120 stellarite per crystal. You buy stellarite in set amounts, but those amounts do at least divide by 120. I double-check that the most expensive one works out the best, and it does, so that's £99.99 for 6480. So £99.99 for 54 items. There are ten items in the outfit in question, and you're guaranteed one of the items in the outfit every five times you use the crystals. So you're guaranteed the entire outfit in 50 crystals, which works out at £92.58

And I imagine a bunch of people are scoffing, like, "omg, what? are you new to gacha?" and going to name a bunch of other, much more egregious examples, but, like, yeah, I am new to gacha because I have ADHD and am really susceptible to microtransactions that are, like, £1.99 each, going, "that's not a real amount of money", and then buying fifty in a month

And I'm double-y susceptible if they're loot boxes and I'm like "but if I buy one more, I might get the thing that I want"

So I haven't touched gacha before because it looked like the same thing

But I'm actually not susceptible to premium currency hoops that try to hide the real amount you're paying because I'm too nosey with the calculator, and these prices are so egregiously bad that I didn't even need the calculator to notice it was a bad deal

So, yeah, maybe the game is just being held aloft by whales who have a spare £93 to drop on a new outfit every so often

But if it was, what would be the harm in being transparent with that number? Instead of forcing me to be nosey with the calculator?

On the one hand, the value proposition of paying for the crystals for the gacha mechanic in Infinity Nikki is so bad, it cancels out my ADHD susceptibility to those kinds of mechanics

But on the other, like, the existence of the ability to pay for them at that price suggests someone more susceptible than me, and that's worrying...

(also read my tags before arguing with me, i've just realised i've basically put an essay in there)