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Nobody was trying to pin dissatisfaction as entirely western concept, so calm down. Just from what I see (and the friends I have who are foreign), the lack of patience and desperate need for everything to be detailed and explained (read: entitlement) is something I generally see from my western friends more. Everyone can be (and should be in some cases) dissatisfied about certain aspects of the game or things in general. I don't think being disappointed in poor handling is exclusive to anyone. They've handled things poorly. It's a fact. But maybe I'm just judging it from my friends (which clearly do not represent everyone), but they have tons more patience about the way the game is going and understand developing times/etc. They still complain, but it's generally not about the speed OR a desperate need for the company to tell them everything. They complain, and know their concerns will eventually be addressed if they do it loud enough. Instead of calling people fools, you should probably take a glance in the mirror. Or you know ... read a post fully or ask for clarification. - But onto the topic. I'm thinking if we get enough tickets I might go for Eirika, because it would definitely be helpful to have an armored healer. Definitely won't spend more than 20-ish orbs on it though, but might wait until near the end of the banner run to see all that's going on. But with New Years right around the corner, I'm thinking I want some NY!Takumi/Azura merges, so I might hold off until there's only a couple days left and see how many orbs I have!

It is true, actually, scrawny men and chubby men are not generally seen as sexually hot unless it's a very specific preference. I agree 100%, but it is GENERALLY true, which is what makes something sexualized or not. I don't think that's right by any means, but we have beauty "standards" for a reason. We're generally conditioned to like certain things, muscled dudes being one of them. Everyone has a wide variety of preferences, but what does fan service cater to?? The standards. What is standard? Muscles for men. Big boobs and ass for girls. It's the standard. It's what they cater too.

Uhhh, yes. Yes it is. Haha. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's a thing. And just because you don't find something sexual, doesn't mean it isn't! But a regular guy (no muscles) swimming? That's not sexual, because like ... well, to put it simply, muscles are hot because it implies a certain amount of dominance and a man being able to pick you up and throw you around (in a good way), and so a typical scrawny or chubby dude isn't considering sexual because it's seen as less masculine. And masculinity is sexualized. In the same way big boobs (a sign of femininity) is sexualized. Doesn't make it right, but that's sorta how it's seen.

Ummm...sorry, but a picture of a random hot dude with muscles mowing his lawn IS fan service. That's so hot. Muscles on men are sexual. Including the 'V' of their abs disappearing into their pants. Pose and presentation matter, but muscles are sexualized generally, and a shirtless guy is pretty sexual. Why do guys take off their shirts at clubs if not for the fact that's a sexual act?

Orrrr, you could understand cultural differences more and not be so quick to lose patience in the first place. It's a bit self-centered to think they need to be more communicative to make western players happy. Honestly, Western culture could just stand to be MORE understanding and patient in the first place. Furthermore, even in our culture, companies are NOT that open about what's going on. Also, player's complain about everything. Nobody is going to be happy. I personally don't find any issues about refresher units+ponies in Aether Raids. I find the best strategies to counter them (the point of the game). A lot of players don't care about Voting Gauntlet multipliers because it's just a mobile game, so why wake up in the middle of the night for it? How are they gonna fix that for a small minority of players? Yes they can clean up the 5* pool, but honestly they probably make more money from it being bloated, so from that standpoint it makes sense to be slow about addressing t. They don't need to TELL you they're cutting costs or spending more resources on Three Houses, and realistically knowing all the legal hoops a company has to jump through (working in Advertising/PR) it makes sense they're not going that in depth. They do communicate (slowly) and if you've been playing heroes since the beginning you should KNOW they move slow, so like ... why don't you have patience? And they already explained finding artists/producing assets/recording VO's and programming takes months. Do they really need to explain WHY as well for people to suddenly have patience and understanding?

Congrats on the two Eirs!! That's an awesome spread of stuff!! And she's super helpful in Aether Raids for sure. I also got 2, so the extra lift has been awesome!!

I agree Ephraim is definitely tempting, but I also REALLY dislike armors, and I know it's like a running gag to have armors that don't LOOK like armor's, but honestly I don't really like the trend. And also I know they're whale bait and they need the money, but I don't see why they can't make a banner that's MOSTLY armor's and maybe have one infantry or flying unit. It's fine though, because I get to keep saving my orbs, which is what I WISHED for. But do like the artwork for Ephraim and Eirika, though it's strange we get another Eirika alt right after she gets a Legendary, I wonder why they planned it like that. I don't even care about the millions of alts, but that one does feel a bit close together. Nice skills, maybe if I get a free one in the pull, I can fodder them off!!

Ughhh, I'm hoping the same thing!! Haha. I don't even have a guess this time though. I just hope they're all armors or something and then I won't want them!

I like this summoning ticket business. I got 2 Eir's (somehow BOTH neutral!) today because of it! So I just merged her for the lovely boost in Aether Raids!

That's weird. I'm F2P and I foddered Fjorm off immediately. And then I got her again on a Legendary banner and foddered her off again! Haha. I didn't like her design, and I hate having random characters sit uselessly in my barracks. I would fodder off Sharena and Anna if I could (or if they had any worthwhile skills). Lol. But I hate random related quests to the things we get for free! Luckily I love Eir's design/etc, so I'm using her, but it's still annoying whenever we got Fjorm stuff. And it's annoying when we get Sharena and Anna stuff because they're still 2*. XD

I hate this. I've gotten over FOUR 5* L'Arachel and COUNTLESS 4* it murders me. She's always my stupid blue pitybreaker, her curls and smile are now the bane of my summoning existence! But I wanna save orbs for the Beast units (don't care about the two revealed thus far, TBH, but hoping the other one or two are beasts I care about!), but also know they can totally screw me with Christmas and New Years. I hate armors, so if they do another all Armor Christmas, it's an easy skip, but then again I said that about Halloween and I HAD to get Halloween Niles, so we shall see. And New Years I loved NY!Takumi and NY!Azura, so if they do another cute theme like that, I'm probably sunk. But they could also totally do a FE game I haven't played and then I could use the rest of December to save orbs! I'm currently at like 130-ish, and wanna save at least 100 for beast units. And I don't *think* I'll pull on any of the other banners, except maybe to get Kliff if he's NOT with Lukas.

Not really hard, but Infernal did take me several tries. I beat the first two with my team of Ike, B!Ike, L!Ike and Soren. Haha. And was TRYING to beat Infernal with them, but just couldn't, so I took away part of the handicap and used L!Ike and Soren, and Flying!Olivia and Veronica as support and then it went MUCH better. That stupid blue flying mage did more damage to Soren than I was expecting. But pulled out with some clever dancing and healing, so it wasn't that hard. But bummed I couldn't do it with my team of Ike's + Soren. Haha.

Interesting. I got Owain as my free pull, and then Exalted Chrom halfway through (because no colorless orbs appeared). So I'm done for a little. Only spent like 40 orbs, refuse to fall below a 100 saved for Holiday/eventual Laguz banner. But it would be nice to give Eir a merge (I swear it's not because I like the little blue background in their portraits and I hate when characters don't have it).

OMG but same. My first thought was "Omg, who is this hunk?!" And then I realized I'm shameful. XD But either way. <33

Same. Robin's new weapon is pretty crap. Blarserpent+ is a much better fit for him. It would be better if the Rally Spectrum applied to Robin as well (a +4 in all his stats would do wonders), but without it, it doesn't really do anything except make him a support unit. And I much prefer him as an active member.

Definitely no to ANY Legendary getting a Mythic alt. But 100% down for the ones who haven't to get some Mythic alts. Micaiah, Robin, etc. Though, I'd like it MORE if they just introduced OC's as Mythic heroes, I think it could do so much more for the story, but we all know they love their Alts. But I'd also really like Naga or other characters to get Mystic versions, but that's also my subscribing to what I personally think 'mystic' means, and as we learned from Legendary Heroes, it's just a modifier put in front to make them sound cool. Soooo, as long as they're not giving Legendary heroes, mythic versions, I'm fine for whatever they do!

Totally agree, the designs are killer, I think! Really glad Kozaki did the work again, it's so detailed and the main image is stellar! Also I love the new icon, it's 100% my favorite, because I generally dislike loli characters (sorry Veronica!) and Fjorm I thought was ugly (sorry girl, I know you're dying!). Excited for the datemine though.

Yay! I'm cautiously optimistic (cause writing issues) but I loved this! Unlike some people, I wasn't expecting anything crazy because we just got Aether Raids/issues are more recent/development time, so I think it definitely delivered in terms of a quality book 3 update + a teaser for beast units!! The new characters look awesome, LOVE Hel's design. At first I was like, "What?" in the 3-D, but seeing the actual 2D art, I was like, "OMG, AWESOME!" Love the other two generals of the realm as well, the designs are a bit over the top and creepy but in a way I find intriguing. I also really like Eir's design, but hoping her personality is at least somewhat decent and no Fjorm! Though I also agree a Male protagonist OC would be nice to add, another princess is great, but Hrid was my favorite. Excited Beast Units are coming, but didn't expect them until January/February anyways, so I'm more whatever about them, but curious to see how they work in the next update, which might gives us something more interesting. And at the very least, new unit types means new strategies and new ways to beat content, so I'm excited to play around with them when they come. Mystic heroes is just another name to differentiate between the OG 4 elements and the new 4 elements (glad it's more than just Dark/Light!) so idk why everyone's weird about the name. They haven't been the BEST with naming things and at least we won't have any more debates about who "deserves" to be mystic cause it's just a silly modifier. Summon tickets are nice! I'll always take new ways to get free pulls, and like that they expire cause it forces me to pull on banners a bit more for more fodder. =D This made me die laughing. Thank you. XD

I hate to agree in something so negative, but I actually 100% do. I think people search to find things that were okay with Fates, when honestly, objectively, it was just a poor piece of work. I think the closest thing they did right was their IDEAS. I really liked the idea of Fates. Choosing between your family that raised you and your blood? Great concept. Retainers for royalty? A 3rd path that shows you the consequences of the other paths? Characters dying? Complex sibling relationships and dynamics? Love ALL of those things. In theory Fates could have been actually amazing, so I think if there's anything the story did right, it was at least having a pretty complex, interesting concept. But otherwise ... there wasn't really anything in the story that I remember being done right. They managed to somehow mess up almost everything they introduced that I was initially very psyched about. Perhaps the only thing they did right was some character writing (Sakura/Elise come to mind), but that's not really part of the story.

I literally said that doesn't mean they shouldn't have been better from the start, because clearly they should have been. But we've established they weren't. We've established they messed up. So if that's the case and they're acknowledging that, we literally just have to wait or be thrown really shitty "holding us over" updates that will probably only serve to make everyone angrier. If in a few months (not several) they still haven't done anything, then yes they really just suck. But they've sucked for a while, and at least LOOK like they're acknowledging their mistakes, so we just have to wait and see. Not saying it makes it right, but idk what constant, useless complaining does either. And personally, I think Arena and Arena 2.0 are fine. I've enjoyed both! And ironically, didn't particularly care for Relay Defense. So to each their own, which only further speaks to the fact they literally can't please everyone.

I have 3 units maxed out to 5k. Robin (duh). Lucina and PA!Azura. Followed by B!Ike at 4,720 and Joshua at 4,065. Otherwise, my next closest are in the low 3,000 and high 2000's. Haha. Clearly I don't alternate my units enough. I personally don't really care about the max, since I'm clearly never reaching towards it. But I think a 7000 cap seems reasonable. If they jump it to like 20k, it seems rather ridiculous.

Hmm. Listed in order. Blazing Sword: Nils. Erk. Sain. Lyn. Eliwood. Heath. Sacred Stones: Ewan. Franz. Lyon. Eirika. Ephraim. Por & RD: Soren. Micaiah. Edward. Rolf. Sothe. Mia. Awakening: Robin. Morgan. Lucina. Owain. Severa. Inigo. Chrom. Brady. (I really loved so many of the characters from Awakening it's easier to name the ones I DISLIKED). Fates: Nobody. (Like actually I disliked the entire cast). Echoes: Gray. Tobin. Kliff. Python. Boey. Leon. Jesse. If you can't tell, I love my mages. XD

Exactly! 100% agree with this. Like everything planned here was based on data they had MONTHS ago. Everyone is like, "I'm bored NOW, so they should fix it NOW" as if development doesn't take time! If they rush it, we'll just get crappy game modes and nobody will be satisfied. They'll address current issues, but it will take a while. Why else do you guys think we got that note about banners we'd be getting in January and MARCH? Because they had it planned, but really far into the future and didn't realize they'd have so many people clamoring for it. Not that I don't think they should have been better about it from the get go, but clearly they hear the complaints and see the issues and are hopefully trying to be better. But we can't look at every new update that's coming in the next month to fix the things that are happening now.

I guess none of those things (aside from Weapon Refinery and Staff units) was really GAME changing and huge and needs more than a minute at most to explain. Barracks and stamina and adjustment of special skills were just quality of life things (all nice), but not really big. And I don't think it's an outrageous hope, I just don't feel like it's a very logical one to be expecting these huge updates, when they just gave us a pretty big one. The biggest thing I'd expect is beast units (which if it's the free/new unit would make PERFECT sense), but also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't. Haha. I just think everyone is putting too many eggs into ONE basket and thinking this update is gonna do EVERYTHING when at most I think it's only gonna do one or two things. I'd expect some things to be addressed here (TBD what they are) and the rest to be addressed at the anniversary. But everyone being negative and freaking out about it being 10 minutes seems silly, since I don't know how anyone could logically expect a 15-20 minute reveal, because of what we've recently gotten.

I'm actually surprised everyone is so negative and surprised by it only being 10 minutes. We LITERALLY just got Aether Raids, an entire new system. I never expected this to be anymore than a cinematic trailer, a date, a banner and maybe a free unit or something simple. What was everyone honestly, truly expecting? An overhaul of the system? If they do that, it's gonna be around the anniversary, but realistically Book III is just gonna be more story chapters and some new heroes, and maybe a basic surprise. If we're LUCKY we'll get beast units, but I also doubt that right now. I can hope, but to be realistic, I'm thinking it won't be until the anniversary, where they introduce beast units/do mass demotions/etc. Though they could def. fit demotions into 10 minutes, I never expected this FEH channel to be anything more than a trailer. Frankly I'm surprised it's so long. Haha.