Originally Posted by DMAsh

Having been with FKG since it's beta, I've seen all the various gachas that have come and gone, as well as the various gold exclusive deals as well. As time passed, a question kept popping up when I sometimes compare the various gachas.

Have Flower Gems become almost completely redundant (as in worthless)?

Now I know there have been a few good gachas that used Flower Gems, like that 10+1 for a gold ticket, but for the most part, the gold exclusives make the FG gachas look pretty worthless, in my opinion. An example in recent memory being when Lycoris came out in the priority gacha, followed by a gold exclusive deal for her soon after. It got to the point where it seems the hidden message being spoken is 'Don't bother spending gold for FGs'.

With that line of thought, I couldn't help but wonder if others thought the same thing or something similar. But all in all, I just felt like expressing my opinion.

P.S. Kinda wish that 5 Star only gacha for just 5 FGs came back, or even a 6 Star only gacha that had a high FG price.

I think the word you are looking for is obsolete.

The FGs have its place, but rather than converting gold to FG, it's better to hoard FGs in normal play, and then use it on gachas. Whales will never convert gold to FGs, anyway, since they're going to be hedging their bets that gold exclusives could never be made available to the general gacha pool too quickly for lucky players to be able to snag.

Bottom line, for Nutaku, the profitability lies in gold conversion. They actually lose some money on gold gachas, especially if the rates are bolstered high enough, or there's incentives (tickets). This is why they reduced the drop rate on FG gacha, in order to compensate. If you're not a whale or even a casual spender ($50/month), and unless it's a Black Friday like deal, you're stuck with FGs anyway, So this issue is moot.