oh god, let's not start that shit again

It really divided folks

Some were happy, some were angry and some wanted the 5* ticket to be only 5* not a hybrid w/ a 6* chance

Not sure if DMM did it

Tickets are Gacha, you either score big or hit salt

12 days of Christmas blooms would be my choice

Honestly the ticket I felt hurt them more than it helped them.

How I like to look at it, all it did was piss off potential whales and make some f2p players happy.
You a whale and get the free rainbow, you happy, but it is just another for the collection.
Yes, F2P players were happy but it was not going to make them suddenly into a shark or a whale.

On the other side you have the people who got the 5* instead.
F2P players were upset, yes, but it is not like it is going to change anything spending wise. They might now be less inclined to spend now, but they don't spend anyway so what does it really matter. People do not start off doing the 180 USD Mega gachas, they start with the very good deals and move upwards.
The people who were really affected were the whales who got shafted. I personally was rubbed bitter by it so much that I didn't do a deal for over 4 months. That is a potential loss of profit they could have made. To say the least, my draw was very, very bad, and frankly it ruined Christmas for me last year. I am not as involved with fkg like I was then, mostly because the failure we have had lately with getting blooms and content, but I would still be extremely pissed if that happened again. I will save you the details and just say the pull was very bad.
Frankly, if they want to give away rainbows, I am for it! Send everyone a 6* exchange ticket, you will make your whales happy, and a happy whale is a spending whale (No one can be indifferent about a pick your waifu), but I would like to avoid a repeat of last time.

The only games I play that gave the highest rarity for free was Aigis did a black ticket for free because of their anniversary.

I don't think Flower Knight Girl both DMM nor Nutaku ever gave a free Rainbow Ticket (either Gacha/Random or Choose your Waifu)

At most, it was 5*/6* hybrid

I won't get into it since I remember people were pretty mad. I stayed out of it. Not my thing to dwell on it. Let people vent and do whatever they want

It won't change the way I spend money since I am pretty laid back.

Also helps if you don't talk in Discord.
That chat honestly only makes things worse.
You can get the good stuff from the chat from other people in other chats.

Gift from dev this year is they going for fabulous vacation and don't update anything until they return.

I got salt last year, thanks to that pretty much quit Nutaku and started on DMM. Maybe they will give a pick your 5* ticket this year.

Anything's fine as long as they don't give some players grapes while the rest get cucumbers.

See I got a 5* from that ticket and I'm a bit of a whale but to be honest it did not piss me off at all. If anything I thought it was a good thing. F2P getting upset over a free 5* just because they missed out on that 50% 6* was and still is stupid, free stuff is free stuff after all. Whales getting pissed over missing the 6* hit was even stupider since the chance for them that even a 6* would end up being a dupe was so high. I mean for a whale what difference does 1 extra copy of a 6* you already have matter? or even a new 6*? you are still going to buy the next greatest thing anyway and it's not like F2P players getting a free 6* makes any of your own spending less relevant. Hell this game is not even PvP in any way shape or form, what others have / get has nothing to do with how well you are doing.

TL;DR Realistically that ticket was a great gift from the devs that they never had to give out and anyone complaining about it was just being childish.

Originally Posted by Zandel

See I got a 5* from that ticket and I'm a bit of a whale but to be honest it did not piss me off at all. If anything I thought it was a good thing. F2P getting upset over a free 5* just because they missed out on that 50% 6* was and still is stupid, free stuff is free stuff after all. Whales getting pissed over missing the 6* hit was even stupider since the chance for them that even a 6* would end up being a dupe was so high. I mean for a whale what difference does 1 extra copy of a 6* you already have matter? or even a new 6*? you are still going to buy the next greatest thing anyway and it's not like F2P players getting a free 6* makes any of your own spending less relevant. Hell this game is not even PvP in any way shape or form, what others have / get has nothing to do with how well you are doing.

TL;DR Realistically that ticket was a great gift from the devs that they never had to give out and anyone complaining about it was just being childish.

I agree with this but for a few points:

1) For most people, it doesn't feel great knowing that you didn't get as good of a prize as you could have simply due to RNG while others got better prizes for the same reason. This gets compounded further by:

2) When you consider that it would have cost the devs absolutely nothing to give out a flat 5* -or- 6* ticket, then the customers who didn't get a 6* feel understandably frustrated. It's true that the devs didn't have to give out anything, but some gift ideas and approaches are best left ungiven rather than upset the recipients. The devs screwed that up with good intentions and anyone working with them with even a smattering of PR knowledge would have thrown up a red flag before the debacle.

I wasn't affected either way; I only started playing this year, but it doesn't take a great deal of empathy to see why people got upset. I don't think it really earned as much angst and hyperbole as it did (c'mon, it really ruined someone's Christmas?) though.