I have been playing daily since 2022. As a fossil in the game who clocked thousands of hours on emulators and phones who got region-locked out of this game on steam, I'm qualified to say what I'm about to say.
The new system is NOT objectively worse but subjectively worse in every front. Objectively, it's "Oh you get 3 more purples (3*) in 10000 pulls." My brother in Christ, you need to stick to the game for 5+ years to get that number.
Subjectively however, it changes your pulling milestones/habits. It changed the fundamental pull expectation by worsening your rates at every banner that you want both on-banner units (which is the core concept of the game since day 1 and what people adapt and plan their spreadsheets around). It incentivizes a different crowd (a.k.a the Hoyo model) where you pull more often.
Fundamentally, it just "feels" worse to gacha in this game. The numbers and stats back it up but it feels infinitely worse when you can miss your rate up all the way to 200 hard pity. There's no 50/50 first time and 100 2nd time like Hoyo or Kuro. Try justifying that to your spreadsheet when you go hard 200 repeatedly.
The old gacha promise is pull 200, you have 80% chance to get both new units. If 20%, tough luck, you can stop here. The new promise is, 100 pull coinflip, 200 pull guaranteed. Pull 200 to guaranteed 1 out of 2. If you hit anywhere outside of the milestone, you are royally f*cked. It punishes you for hitting the jackpot because now you are forced to pull extra to the milestones for the bonus 10-pull ticket that are time-limited btw.
Patrick Söderlund ruined the game. The Gacha system got gutted, taken out back and shot in the head. Numbers mean little when your optics is this screwed with both how it was implemented and announced. Thanks ex-EA CEO, I hope hell has a special place for you slimy piece of sh*t.
