I understand how you feel even if i'm not a f2p, but i'm a low casher and more or less we are mishandled by them in the same way as you f2p are.

I was muted not long ago in this section of the forum because i continued to tell them that Advanced Threads weren't at all in the pull of SA expert mode and they continued to tell me that 'this thing was replied multiple times' and the reply was: 'there's a slight chance to drop them'. Now, this week, after the maintenance, EVERY SINGLE RUN OF SA EXPERT MODE drops 1 advanced thread for sure.

None said a thing about this, but is actually the perfect proof that i was right, that the system was bugged and that, as i said, advanced threads weren't at all there and something was wrong. Now that works as it was supposed to work they let it go like if nothing happened.

A serious company would have said: 'hey, you were right and we were completely wrong! we are going to send to every player with rank 5 BA or higher 150 advanced threads as compensation, for the missing 25 weeks or rewards you experienced since 3.0 introduction!'.

Obviously this won't happen and they'll go on like if was always so and people like me were allucinating.

That said you made the only mistake a f2p should never do: to believe in what whales said. Whales have no real awareness of what happens to them and we couldn't even take for granted that the algorithms that manage this game actually don't take in account how much you cash to actually modify any rng chances.

You have been the perfect f2p so far, but you fell in the temptation that what actually 10 whales told you was true.

The only thing that you should have taken for granted it was true is that wasn't sure to reach rank 10 from rank 8 with less than 1200 advanced refinement runes (400 for 8 to 9 and 800 for 9 to 10), but just that existed a chance for it to fail. As f2p you should always take for granted that if there's a chance to fail then that chance is 100% and if doesn't happen you can be happy because you saved up resources for the next time (not for this actual time), but i completely understand the frustration you can feel (i feel that too) and that sometimes, even if you are aware of the fact you are going to do a silly act, that you do it the same because you need to feel once you were lucky and that the game is somehow in owe with you.