Arknights: Endfield's launch leaves a lot to be desired. Yesterday, on the game's first day, developer Hypergryph was forced to remove PayPal payments after an issue caused some players to be charged for other players' purchases.
While not as worrying as the PayPal issue, complaints have continued into Arknights: Endfield's second day, with players extremely unhappy with the game's gacha elements and its tutorial.
First and foremost, Arknights: Endfield is a free-to-play gacha title. That means it was always likely to be littered with predatory microtransactions designed to extract as much money as possible from its players, each of which are all hoping to pull the best characters. Just two days in, though, these gacha mechanics are already grating on its audience.
Despite its gorgeous world and characters, Arknights: Endfield is stuck deep in gacha purgatory. A game that does not respect your time, or reward it.
Since launch, the Arknights: Endfield subreddit has been littered with threads of players complaining about the limited number of free rolls they are getting and the difficulty of earning more. Between them, these threads have garnered thousands of upvotes.
"Now that I have spent some time with the game, the economy...
