Over the past week, we've been all waiting, getting excited for the new overhaul for the July event, getting ready to see what will they do. Will they bring back old parts of the event? Make a new story? Add something new to the table? We just had and wait to see

Then they took a massive shit onto us.


In all seriousness, this event overhaul has been a disaster fest, and I want to come here and share why that is, but first, lets go back to before all of this

Retired July Event

While, I wasn't actually here when the old July event has happened, I have taken looks in on how it worked before, and reading other peoples experiences about it while looking through threads and the wiki
For the most part, everyone seemed to really enjoy the event
Of course there was the issue of the really.. gross storyline that was present the past few years, plus the usual complaints about the apps being WAYY too expensive, but everyone agreed that everything else was fine
MS rate was more than great, with quests giving you decent amount of shards, explore encounters helping you out and being pretty generous with the MS rate + how much you get by fights, fireflies weren't an issue either because they were generally really easy to gather, and you didn't have to grind all too much to get enough to buy what you want, it was pretty balanced for everyone

but then.. this year came. and left to take a shit.

The NEW July Event

While, it is true that this event is VERY new, hell it hasn't even been 24 hours since it first came out, it still needs to by criticized for what it does wrong, and boy. Does it do many things wrong

I want to take the time talk about all the MAJOR complaints separately, since there is a lot to cover

The week before hand

While waiting for the event, MS were very hard to come by. They weren't terrible per say, just that the rate you were getting them at the time was very low, since it all come down to RNG and if the game wasn't going to fuck you in the ass with only 2-3 MS encounters every full bar of energy

Not only was it all luck how many times you'd get the encounter, but also how many shards you got was up in the air. The highest was only 5 shards, while sometimes you might not even get any to begin with

It was very brutal, especially since people like me, who had no shards beforehand, had to grind if they even wanted a chance at any of the apps that were in the temple

Now.. leading into that..

The Temple

While, I do think the temple was well made, where a lot of the old storyline decors and backgrounds were added, for sb too which was pretty cheap, it was still WAYYY better and cheaper to buy them of by branches, since they'd always be much cheaper. Not to mention the horrors of the prices made for the apps in the temple. Prior to the update, ALL apps were 3000 MS, even the free storyline one. They did end up lowering the prices.. for only 2 of them.

I get that these apps are expensive and shouldn't be easy to get, I feel like it's a very bad move on their part to make the apps that are worth MUCH less than the other 2 the only ones to get this sort of treatment, you were better off just saving for the 3000 MS ones and just buying the other 2 off branches

As of now, the apps have been removed temporarily, and will most likely cost AC, while everything else in the temple costs SB

While the temple being priced in SB isn't too bad, since they aren't as expensive, the fact that you can't even buy anything with shards is really.. weird.

You're being forced into playing the event the way they want you too, since the only thing to actually spend your shards on as of now, is the main gimmick of this event.

Celestial Explore

This whole event is entirely focused on this one thing, and if I'm being honest, I really like the idea of this whole thing

I really do think it's an great idea as a redo of the July event! But there is still many flaws to it

The main problem connects with exploring itself. While exploring in this new area, you will find alien like creatures that you have to fight in order to get AC, now.. this wouldn't be too much of a problem if the fighting system wasn't so unfair..

I had this same issue with the last event, where you can obviously see that the difficulty of these fights are artificially made, with the snakes in the June event, the rng for everything was just out the roots, hell many times I would have fights where we BOTH miss our attacks 3 times in a row. The rng was dogshit, and the same can be sorta said with this event. It doesn't help that our damage is so minimal and sometimes the enemy can do over 20 damage in just one turn, it's so unfair!!

This is especially true with newcomers who don't have high stats, so they just get mopped to the floor by these enemies and get nothing out of their shards

And even if you do manage to defeat them, you only get 1 AC each fight, and each boss only gives you 3 AC, unless you stock up on A LOT of MS and grind hard for it, you won't be getting much AC

Other Things

While these things are important, they don't need as big as an explanation as others

- Other encounters in Celestial Explore
I think that the encounters where you choose between 2 options is good, since you still get 1 AC without the fight + one of those new crafting materials, but the MS encounter is basically useless, since you're more likely getting less than what you spent on that step

- MS For Exploring
On that note, I think charging 5 MS for one step is a bit over too much, as small as it is. You're not getting much MS unless you're online all the time grinding, and even then the pay off is not the best

- MS Rate
Even after the made the encounter for MS much more likely to happen, you're still getting barely anything even with a full bar, at best you can get 30-40 MS each time, and that usually never happens,

- Celestial Raffles
While this is mainly unchanged from last year, it really bothers me and others that you need 5 AC just to enter. People are having it hard to get these, many don't have the time to grind and want to save for the Demiurge Exchange, so having to worry about this too doesn't help

- Demiurge Shop
The prices aren't too bad, but a lot of the decors can be frustrating to get with all the battles, not to mention how much the backgrounds are. At BEST if you win every battle and only keep getting battles for AC, it'll cost around 500 shards. For one background, that's absurd.

- The Apps
Before they were removed, people said they went up to 15k sb, that is WAY. TOO. MUCH. You're making it so people have to grind EVEN MORE just to get what they want, this is what people usually anticipate in these events, and you make it pay to play. At least they did remove it

- Grind heavy. Money hungry.
This event has been really bad for those who play it casually, or don't have the money to spend on this game. It creating a crash in the market for gb prices and sb and everything surrounding this, it's just pure chaos

My Thoughts

I really don't like this update. I understand how much work it must've been getting all this together, but it makes it all the more sadder when you realize how bad it's been getting with this event

I at least appreciate them taking into consideration all the things everyone is saying

Some things I want to add into the pile is..

- Either lower the MS Price for exploring or remove the MS part entirely, maybe make it limited to a 20 steps or so every hour or so, since it is a tier, but idk

- Make AC easier to get in explore/increase the AC won in battles

- Lower the amount of AC needed for the raffle, or change it to MS

- Make the encounter for MS in Celestial Explore 5+

.. But this is just what I think, if you have anything else you want to add on, feel free to!!

PS: This isn't suppose to be an attack to any of the staff, just speaking out what I've seen others say + saying what I think, I hope you can make this event better in the next few weeks <3