THE RATES ARE UPON US

Even though we are lacking an official announcement, we are supposedly getting the 3% Rainbows with the FFXV banner. While I personally would not pull without either an announcement or some evidence, maybe some of you are? This is obviously an important change in the Gacha system that requires scrutiny, so please participate in the surveys!

UPDATE: The rainbow rate increase has been announced! Please do the surveys and let's confirm if it's for real!

UPDATE UPDATE: The survey data is starting to come in. I've got my work cut out for me! The biggest user error I'm seeing is that some people are submitting regular tickets as " t1" (incorrect) instead of just " t" (correct). I will update it to support both over the weekend but for now please make sure you're using t for regular tickets and not t1. If you don't get a response in a reasonable amount of time, it's because your email was rejected by the system. Make sure you've got valid tags in the email address you're sending it to, and are sending it from a non-bogus email account.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE Well I had to stay up late for this but now that things are more-or-less working I need to call it a night. If there was an error processing a screenshot that wasn't on your end don't worry; I'll be combing through all of the errors and verifying that the correct data gets in (even if it takes a little while). Thank you for your patience with this new process and thanks for participating!

Summon Survey

If you are pulling on the FFXV Banner, then check out the megathread for that banner here.

We are piloting a new system that lets you email in screenshots of your pulls, either by taking them and emailing them later or using the Share button that appears when you summon.

If you are pulling with EX tickets and/or 10 1 tickets, you can contribute to the survey just as easily by adding " ex" to the email address you send your screenshots to.

Note that we do NOT expect the rate up to affect 4* and 5* tickets (or the bonus unit you get in a 10 1 ticket), but we still want to track those to know if rates have changed there as well.

YOU CAN BATCH UP YOUR INDIVIDUAL PULLS BY SCREENSHOTTING THE UNITS SCREEN. Please read the instructions here: http://ffbe.danposluns.com/

Please bear with me as I get this new system up and running. We are still building the boat as we sail it here. Make sure to verify the results of the pull you get, and if there's a mistake please forward the response email to [email protected].

Results

I will definitely post a new thread once we have some data!

FQA

Why do surveys?

Alim publishes the rates for the JP version of the game, but Gumi does not tell us the rates for GL. We think we have a good idea of approximately where they are but the only way to know with any amount of confidence is to collect a statistically significant sampling of data and analyze it for ourselves. We already know that Gumi does not give us identical rates to JP, they are at the very least lower for 4* banner units on 4*-guaranteed crystals. Furthermore, by keeping rates a secret Gumi maintains the ability to change the rates on any banner whenever they see fit to do so, so if they won't give us transparency it's important we keep up the effort on our end to at least hold them accountable.

This rate up is a big deal, and we want to confirm that our expectations match reality.

How do I participate?

Either use the built-in Share button or take a screenshot whenever you summon on the banner, every time. Then send those screenshots to the appropriate email listed above. You will receive a response listing the units you pulled, and your information will be aggregated with everyone else's. (In the future, you'll be able to view and edit your information, too, so you can keep track of how your pulls compare with the rest of the community's.)

Please commit to reporting all of your pulls, not just the interesting ones. That's the only way we can get meaningful results.