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Context: Blue Archive used to have a 200-pull spark system, but it is now changed to a Hoyo-style 50/50 pity system.

100 pulls now gives you a 50% chance to get the featured 3-star character. If you lose the 50/50, you are guaranteed the featured character at 200 pulls.
The issue is that pity resets to 0 once you get any of the featured characters from any other banner. So if you got the student at 190 pulls, you cannot use the 190 pulls to spark another character because it gets set to 0. This change is only good for pulling a single character from a banner, but it is very bad if you want to pull multiple characters in a banner.

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HyphenSam said in comment #2618200:

Context: Blue Archive used to have a 200-pull spark system, but it is now changed to a Hoyo-style 50/50 pity system.

100 pulls now gives you a 50% chance to get the featured 3-star character. If you lose the 50/50, you are guaranteed the featured character at 200 pulls.
The issue is that pity resets to 0 once you get any of the featured characters from any other banner. So if you got the student at 190 pulls, you cannot use the 190 pulls to spark another character because it gets set to 0. This change is only good for pulling a single character from a banner, but it is very bad if you want to pull multiple characters in a banner.

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I donโ€™t play Blue Archive, so it took me a bit to understand. Closest approximation I personally have is the spark system from Fire Emblem Heroes. So yeah, I can totally get how frustrating it would be having your spark points set back to 0 if you get a featured character via pure luck.

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HyphenSam said in comment #2618200:

Context: Blue Archive used to have a 200-pull spark system, but it is now changed to a Hoyo-style 50/50 pity system.

100 pulls now gives you a 50% chance to get the featured 3-star character. If you lose the 50/50, you are guaranteed the featured character at 200 pulls.
The issue is that pity resets to 0 once you get any of the featured characters from any other banner. So if you got the student at 190 pulls, you cannot use the 190 pulls to spark another character because it gets set to 0. This change is only good for pulling a single character from a banner, but it is very bad if you want to pull multiple characters in a banner.

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I will have utmost respect to the BA community if they keep showing spine here instead of reverting to total gooners after one week again. Which is happening already. Nevermind.

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HyphenSam said in comment #2618200:

Context: Blue Archive used to have a 200-pull spark system, but it is now changed to a Hoyo-style 50/50 pity system.

100 pulls now gives you a 50% chance to get the featured 3-star character. If you lose the 50/50, you are guaranteed the featured character at 200 pulls.
The issue is that pity resets to 0 once you get any of the featured characters from any other banner. So if you got the student at 190 pulls, you cannot use the 190 pulls to spark another character because it gets set to 0. This change is only good for pulling a single character from a banner, but it is very bad if you want to pull multiple characters in a banner.

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as a genshin player i don't see the issue

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HyphenSam said in comment #2618200:

Context: Blue Archive used to have a 200-pull spark system, but it is now changed to a Hoyo-style 50/50 pity system.

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Oh, fucking lovely. Just when I started to get back into the game again.

I remember when Umamusume's global server first opened, I wished its gacha was more like BA's. They've since raised its regular Carat (Pyroxene) rewards, and given you the ability to grind for character's Star Pieces (Eleph). All they have to do now is merge more banners together so they have a shared pity system and we'll have gone full-circle.

How the tables turn.

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JustAGalNamedMadison said in comment #2616635:

absolutely the fuck not. Miruko was a fully grown adult during Izuku's entire childhood, him getting into a relationship with someone that much older than him is fucking disgusting.

Inaccurate, for her to have been an adult for his entire childhood she'd need to be at least 33, which wouldn't work since that would make her older than Midnight.

She was 26 years old in her first appearance so she's only 10-11 years older than Izuku, and the version of Izuku shown here is post time-skip so he would be around 24 in the first half of the image while Mirko is 36.

A ten year age age isn't that bad when both parties are adults especially when they're both working adults in similar stages of their lives.

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The Hoyo pity system is so ass. Sure, you're guaranteed your character of choice earlier (in theory), since Hoyo games themselves guarantee a five star at 90 pulls, thus needing 180 at most, and pity carries over between banners, but sparking is still better overall because it isn't affected by the results of your pulls.
You could get the mythical double five star pull and you would still keep building pity towards a different character.
Just because Hoyo gets away with it doesn't mean other companies have to copy it, see OG Arknights vs Endfield.
And the devs actually changing the system for an existing game is not only scummy beyond belief, it also sets a terrible precedent for other companies to follow.
Hopefully the backlash will be enough to unfuck the situation.

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HeirofSparda said:

It's not even a functional platform, I don't get why people are still clinging to it.

Same reason people still use Youtube and Windows, buy overpriced and underpowered Nvidia GPUs , and wade through increasingly enshittified streaming and commerce sites; it's easier to put up than move out.

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cd_young said:

You dumb fucks think those platforms won't bend the knee either? Also, there's plenty of people detracting that "nazi platform's" owner and not being banned. Unlike Blueskys where you can be banned for not putting pronouns in your bio.

Why would pixiv bend the knee? Its a Japanese platform dude.

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HeirofSparda said:

Why would pixiv bend the knee? Its a Japanese platform dude.

Which means art there must comply with Japanese censorship laws. And if a company starts enforcing their own no-lewds rule on fanart, as Cygames does with Umamusume and Khara with Evangelion, then Pixiv will comply. Ultimately, you would be trading one flavor of censorship for another.

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