Wheel of Misfortune

[Stasya]

the house always wins

I actually had a thought what if they pollute wheel with garbage due to some anti gambling law in Japan, so we can't have "you lost" sectors.

If that's true it means Square don't even want to give casuals more items worthy to keep..... what was waiting for cosmic exploration for? a bunch of leve quests with suit/minion/mount as reward?

[CVXIV]

I actually had a thought what if they pollute wheel with garbage due to some anti gambling law in Japan, so we can't have "you lost" sectors.

If that's true it means Square don't even want to give casuals more items worthy to keep..... what was waiting for cosmic exploration for? a bunch of leve quests with suit/minion/mount as reward?

I'm not familiar with Japan's laws on gambling so I can't say much there.

In the game, however, you'll find most systems like it has a bunch of garbage thrown in to pad the pool and make items more rare like in Eureka and Bozja with their lootboxes

As for no loss scenarios, my mind goes to the Gold Saucer, where it's pretty much impossible to lose MGP. You'll always get something while putting in very little.

I've seen a lot of positive about Cosmic Exploration from people that are really into crafting / gathering because of the increased challenge. Outside of the rewards you listed, there's also the relics which you can get for every DoH/DoL job which will be a pretty big grind

I think the biggest failing so far is the advertisement that it would be similar to Island Sanctuary, which led people to have certain expectations for how the content was going to go.

Having done Ishgardian Restoration I already knew what was to be expected. I wasn't sure how they were going to merge the two and from what I've seen so far they really haven't.