@GM-Deynger said in One Major Update Away, How Do You Feel?:
in addition to SG items
To be clear the complaint is the same as it always was: Our four SG scratch sets are effectively four pairs of two SG scratches on Japan. Besides the larger prize lists making it take more scratches to get the prizes we want, the eight sets JP had spanned a combined total of 1,680 days to earn SG between June 2016 and January 2021. In Global for all that content we've had just 391 days (about 23% of the time) and most in-game SG income limits how much you can earn per week.
Despite that, the scratches are no cheaper, and our SG supply has been somewhat comparable to JP week-on-week (our version of Mission Pass broadly balancing out JP having PSO2es and IDOLA). It would roughly even out, though I'd assert the need to keep up with a constant rush of content and campaigns on Global has made it less workable to earn Casino and Buster SG than it was on JP, and Battle Arena is unfair outside NA.
More than that though we also have Fresh Finds acting as a massive SG sink, which JP never had since the vast majority of content that appears in Fresh Finds has been taken out of AC-based sources (chiefly AC scratches). This has been a nasty problem since buying an outfit that was AC-based on JP costs 400 SG - effectively 5 SG scratches - instead of the maybe 20 million meseta it would have been.
In short our SG expenses have been enhanced, combined and then added to compared to what Japan had, and our time to earn SG to pay for it has been severely reduced. Global players have basically needed to choose which content to sacrifice that we'd have been able to comfortably get if Global had had an income/expenditure balance that was even half as good as JP.
I still praise the extension of our SG scratches from the 2 months they were originally going to be; we don't have things nearly as bad as they would have been had that never happened and I've personally benefit from the overlap allowing me to finish Mother's Disciples with enough SG to enable scratching Fallen Heroes at all. But our SG situation is still very dire compared to what it's been on JP.
And if NGS starts with an SG scratch it'll probably be balanced around the expectation of JP players having saved much more SG than Global players have been able to, this is also a concern for that.
@GM-Deynger said in One Major Update Away, How Do You Feel?:
I understand there is a Summoner item missing? What did you mean by "Summoner CF"
There are many summoner sweets that either haven't had an appropriate source for their intended progression point (Support Roll for instance has been included in multiple items of previously-forwarded feedback) or simply haven't appeared on Global at all (whatever the translation is for Fluffy Roll and Conversion Roll).
For the most part (including Support and Conversion Roll) these seem to be available on JP from the Collection Folder system, which is what Amari-Kigu meant by CF, and were previously available from now-removed Astracite exchanges that Global never had in the first place.
