X is a variable - my biggest Problems with KHuX

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Okay guys this is a rant about KHux I am sorry/not sorry about this because Square Enix made me mad with all that happened those past months regarding the mobile Game Kingdom Hearts unchained X...

First of all - which is most important: I really do love Kingdom Hearts with all fibres of my heart. Just because I am angry about greedy people behind this Game doesn't change my overall view about Kingdom Hearts in general.

And for the second thing, X is the variable of being perfectly for using different words like the series xxxholic (in which all forms of holics are meant like alcoholic as example) but this X stands for Greed. unchained Greed. But we will get to that a little bit into my rant.

Okay there are several things and I want to talk about those because they pretty much upset me.

Localization:
Unchained X was a promise of Square Enix for the Western Audience to experience the Browser Game of Kingdom Hearts X on mobile Phones. But in the end - September 2015 - Japan was again, the only country which was getting this game, I have downloaded it just for the sake of playing it but it was not the same. Further askings on Square Enix in general were like "oh well we don't know about any release at all" and then finally this year it was released in April for North America - only. This made me furious because our world doesn't exist of JUST JAPAN and JUST USA, but okay, my hopes were up that we will get some translations (I live in Germany by the way if someone asks) so I waited again, also in the same hope to get to play this someday. Then finally in July, Square Enix announced that like 100+ countries will obtain unchained X - when it was finally available I thought to myself that this is a kind of bad joke. It's the US Version - just unlocked for all other regions, 3 months later. The first and most annoying Question is "WHY THE FUCK WAS THIS GAME DELAYED FOR ALMOST THREE MONTHS?!?!?" There were no changes at all! Nothing! Just the same Version which was already running for 3 months! We missed three months of content and extras like Zoomania Event and whatnot and I felt betrayed by Square Enix being so mean to the mere "rest of the World" because we don't matter to them, at least I feel like that they felt forced to do this. Like "Oh we forgot like 100 countries? They don't even like this Kingdom Hearts stuff. Oh? People still demand it? Well we give them which is already out, no need to do some extra stuff here just unlock what is already out."

Difficulty:
When I started to play unchained X, japanese Version, my knowledge of Katakana helped me a lot to get nearly all objectives, one of them which had stick out the most was that all Missions were with the same Objective: "Defeat the Target Enemy in 1 turn", even if the Group of Enemies was like 4 or 5 Heartless - if you defeated the one with the Red underlined HP Bar in one turn and the rest in two or three turns, the Objective was met and completed. 
For the "Western Version" however it seems that Square Enix NA was thinking this game is WAAAAAAAAAY TOO EASY so they changed the Objectives nearly for all Missions to "Defeat all Enemies in 1 turn" which includes the "challenges" which somehow were beyond your possibilities at some point of the game. "Defeat Morning Star/Invincible/Cannon or whatever hard Heartless in 1 turn" was not only needed to get this objective, but this particular Heartless was needed for the "All enemy" Objective as well. 
So our Version isn't a cakewalk which is a "Free 2 Play to have fun Game" this is the Proud Mode of "Free 2 Play" - if someday we will get the "Proud Mode" which exists in Japan, then I can assure you, this will be "Critical Mode" for us because there is no chance in hell that we will have any kind of fun with those.
Have you tried the Moogle O' Glory challenges? Even the first Quest is impossible if you don't have any Medal which needs to be at least Tier 3 Guilt and best of all highly Guilted.
Just for this Keyblade I have spent 500+ Jewels to revive myself and finishing that stupid-hard Quest. 
The same goes for all those Adamantine Quests, those are the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. For those Quests you need Medals which need to be so overpowered to have a mere chance of defeating all and getting those Objectives done, just to make your Weapon stronger. But why do you need to bother to upgrade your Keyblades, when you already need Medals which need to be over-overpowered just to even get this quest done in the first place? 

Pulls and Money:
This is by far the most extreme part of this game. This Game is hard, you need better stuff? Well you can get better stuff for measly 3000 Jewels which are roughly calculated between 15 to 35 € depending on the Jewelpack you want to buy. No one forces you to buy anything, I know that pretty well. But if you want to have good stuff you will sooner or later need to try a pull, even if you just collect every free Jewel this game gives you and you never payed a cent, which pretty much takes on forever with that measly Jewels we get from Daily Log Ins or other extra Quests. 
And before the September Update, Square Enix was so ruthless to put in "Free to play" Medals into all Jewel Pulls. You have payed some money to get something awesome, which is advertised to be super special awesome. Too bad you get a Free to play Medal which you get for every Quest. But now you payed for it.
Unchained Greed - if I have seen that correctly, than NA is by far the country with the worst possible prices for that game. For 14.700 Jewels, Players of North America have to pay 149,99 US $, European Players pay 99,99 € for the same amount.
149,99 $ are roughly 133,00 € and 99,99 € are roughy 112,00 $ my most burning Question here is: What is financed with so much money??? Does Kingdom Hearts unchained X needs billions of currencies just to work? For the Japan Account I had, the game roughly wanted 60 € for 14700 Jewels - so the Problem here is mostly greed, greedy people who will fill their pockets with hard earned cash of those players who try to get some good medals. And don't forget, before September for 5 months they had the nerve to mix in Free 2 Play Medals into that big Pool of momentarly 490 Medals.
And the most colossal cheek/nerve that Square Enix writes for Epic Deals is: "If you don't obtain the Medal which is advertised here in 9 Pulls, we will guarantee that this medal will be pulled in your 10th pull." Wow! This is so generous of you, I only need to pretty much pay 300 € to get that one stupid medal "guaranteed" if your rigged system won't give me any. This isn't any luck and this is the highest insolence I can think of. "We will guarantee this, no worries we don't mock you, just give us your hard earned cash, you don't need it anyway."

Guiltsystem - I mean "SPECIAL ATTACK SYSTEM":
I don't know if I am one of the few people of that game with terrible luck, but that guilting System is rigged as shit. Like totally rigged.
I was proud of getting my Wakka Medal to Level 6 and I had multiple of those so I could meld them together for a better Damage Multiplier and also possible to get him "guilted". Wakka is a Tier 1 Medal so his % are between 10 and 25%. So I tried my first guilt and got - 14%, it's not the best but oh well, 14% is better than 10%.
So I took my next Wakka I had and Leveled him up 230 times (from :star: to :star::star::star::star::star: maximum are 230 Levels = :star: is max Level 20, :star::star: Lv 30, :star::star::star: Lv 40, :star::star::star::star: Lv 60 and :star::star::star::star::star: Lv 80)
After that costly Evolution of many used Medals to get him back to :star::star::star::star::star::star: and meld him to my exisiting one this note pops up:
You can try to get higher % between 10 and 25% it won't be lower than your actual %. I tried again and he calculates pretty fast for... 14%.
I guilted my Wakka 5 times just to get 14% 4 times and the last one was like 20ish % but what the fuck are they thinking about this System??? This is insane! You need so many Medals and then your only chance to get something cool but oh well you just wasted your Munny, your Medals and whatever you needed - I could've done the same by just selling all those Medals - the result would be the same and I wouldn't have lost any Munny in the process.
But for this easy game you need to use that System, because your Medals aren't strong enough without it and with this System they betray like hell.
I got a "perfect" Tier 1 guilt of 25% once, for Olette, a Medal I actually never used in any deck, like never. Wow.
And the Main Problem is, your Medals, even how powerful or rare they could be, can fuck you over with that stupid system. I had this Problem with Final Form Sora - guilted and got 76%, I had another one of Final Form Sora, but the % stayed at 76% and I lost him in the process for nothing!

Medals (in general):
Next to my millions of Genies this game gave me (because you need at least 18 of them you know), I also obtained super rarely and very good medals. I have Illustrated Cloud and SP Axel both are Tier 4 Guilt Medals and "pretty rare". Cloud is also very powerful, but Axel isn't. Both are Lv 100 but Cloud can accumulate near 30.000+ HP Damage while Axel is doing many Hits but those are below 1000. Axel is still a powerhouse if he gets guilted. Well if you have at least 7 of him - which is no problem to get in those nice and easy pulls, for not much money. Oh you already pulled 17 Genies and no Axel like advertised? No worries, you will get him when you pay us 1000 $/€ more! GUARANTEED!
And the best thing here, your Medals become more and more worthless. Even if you have a Tier 4 Illustrated Kairi which is max guilted, this Game will get so hard that her Special Attack will do 1 HP Damage because you need the newest and bestest Medals to have even a slightest chance of winning. Don't believe me? Just search on Youtube of some people who play the Japanese Version which have the newest Medals already and see how much Damage Kairi is doing. And the worst part here, they can make every Medal obsolete - even if you make it "the most powerful Medal" in your whole Deck. And I thought that the Guilt System stopped with Tier 4 which is max boosted to 130%, nope they've introduced Tier 5 which goes up to 150% - so even your super rarest Medals are just worthless Marbles

No reward for the poor:
Challenge Quests and those rankings are the worst. We are put together in a huge pool of "do this and if you are GOOD ENOUGH we will reward you with some neat shit" but you need to be at least in Rank 5000 to get this. Oh? All Unions are playing the same challenge and there are like 3.000.000+ people playing? Too bad so sad.
You are punished for not paying enough money or for not betraying/cheating and not getting caught for doing so. Why should we even bother if only the best are rewarded and you simply aren't the best because you don't have all the medals = you don't have enough money to obtain them all. And they give out some "poor prizes" something you can't or don't want to use because you already have that 40 times. Or you get nothing at all or better let's say you get the "thanks for trying crap of that box of things no one wants"
You wanted Attack Boost III to have better Power and Trigger chances? Oh well how about Attack Boost I? You don't need to get better and we don't reward you either for doing so. But those on the Top are already powerful enough, but they get the reward to be even more powerful, why not? Those who are financing us with 10.000 of $ deserve to be treated better/best.

Those things in general are the worst for me. The game is unforgivingly difficult, you need to be rich like at least Bill Gates to pay for all that crap. And it bums me out.
And I really can't believe that there are so many players who have like minimum 3 of the most rarest Medals in their deck and two of them are already max guilted, which means they obtained this Medal more than 12 times! 

But do you know what is the worst in all that things above? It works for them, even if we do complain, there is that handful elite of players which will always be on top, cheated or not, which will keep this rigged system running.

And maybe this is intended, because it's a reason for War... the Keyblade War. 
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LadySai65-Rojas's avatar
Hey do you have the company email to complain about how unfair this game is?