When i read yesterday what we would have gained my impression wasn't good at all (and i'm not a f2p person, just an occasional spender) and now that the events are on live my impressions even worsened.
1) Naruto's Froggy: this event would be pretty nice if only at the end of the week we would get back our ingots like the word 'deposit' suggested, but since seems we won't see anymore our ingots if we spend them there then is really bad to see that the only viable option is the less expensive one, the 100 ingots one, since is the only option that pays back for a reasonable amount (about 3 times what was spent).
The others are really horrible and the more you spend the less you get back!
On first sight i thought the 30, 100, 200, 1000 coupons were redeemable every day and also if that was true the 1000 and 5000 ingots ones wouldn't be worth the expense, but when i realized it was a once in a lifetime thing i couldn't believe it.
I had to say to myself: 'They really planned something so bad?'
2) Consumption Wheel: For a moment i thought: 'ok, so is like last time, i use my coupons/ingots and hope to be lucky' but then, after my free try, i noticed that there was no coupons option. I thought: 'no way, they really made impossible for f2p people to take part in this event too?'.
3) One year anniversary: I've used my 600 stamina to get my 60 plot missions from the daily in monthly event and i got 20 ramens. I spent them and got back 20 points (but some friends told me i was pretty lucky to get a so high amount). At that point i go in the 'redeem' screen and i do two calculations and i discovered that everything is too expensive to be true. Literally everything, except for guy's tortoise, tsunade hokage and naruto ninetails chakra that still cost way more than any f2p or moderate casher can hope to gather in 6 months of playing.
50 coupons for 1 advanced refinement rune? 80 for an advanced thread?
Really?
4) Mad anniversary: ok for kakashi make out paradise for free, nothing to complain about this except is surely not what the large majority of the population hoped to get, but then i look at summer wars and i see the event basically give us only 1 medium refinement rune or 1 mood scroll per day, while the water gun thing gives back worse rewards than fish mania packs. From anniversary i expected to get good things, not bad things, but it would be ok if only was the only thing that doesn't go as expected.
5) Anniversary Red Envelope: The rebate ratio for gifting friends in group is way too low. Unless i'm an hyper whale (and i don't see why i should spend a ton in this event if i was one) what do i give to my friends in group? 10 coupons in a week? Really? And why should i spend a lot to get back 'only' a 20% ingots as coupons? Last event i renewed jonin medal and got 50% back. Try your luck gives minimum 100%, and many other common events we had gave back 50, 70, 80, 100%. Why should i spend now?
6) Platinum recharge: As an occasional spender that have to renew the monthly fee i'll spend for this one, but just for the 50 ingots per day option. I could have selected the 300 if other things in the event were good enough for it to do, but they aren't and surely the perspective of getting iruka fragments, something i get for free by refine ninja fragments in excess, is not appealing at all. I'll go just with the 50, and i'll rise to 100 when the tenten wheel will appear. Nothing more, no point to do it.
7) Call for duty: In my opinion this is another way to give advantage to cheaters that created a ton of alts to let their SWB start when SWB wasn't cross server or that used them to reach sage of six paths ranking when was possible for them. Normal players and non cheating players have 0 ways to get any one of the rewards.
8) How they managed the wave of bad feedbacks they got in 1 single day: I'm ok with the Survival Trial Mission, but imho, since is the anniversary, they should let us claim all the 7 rewards every day and not only 4 after the first day and, honestly speaking, i consider the Ninja Mission event a joke. People asked for months to give them back mood scrolls. They had a way to make a patch with this mess with that event, was enough to swap those items none want right now - dangos and food - for mood scrolls and coupons to make everyone happy.
Sorry for this, it's just my feeling about this event, but seemed to me right to share it.