Teamfight Tactics players are furious over gacha-style battle passes

Set 9 Teamfight Tactics – Titled Runeterra Reforged – Already live. While players had fun with the new units, combos, and game mechanics, many were frustrated with the changes to the battle pass.

The main source of anger stems from the removal of the Tiny Legendary Egg. Previously, players who put in enough time in the series could expect some eggs as rewards, whether or not they paid for the premium pass. These will randomly grant a Little Legend—an upgradable player portrait—over the life of the game. For those who paid for the pass, new Little Legends from the current series are easily available.

However, these easter eggs have been poached from the battle pass by Riot Games and replaced with a new currency called Treasure Tokens. Players can now spend these Treasure Tokens in Treasure Realms instead of collecting eggs directly. It’s a gacha system, a reward system that lets players spend money to get random rewards. If you haven’t experienced it before, the term originated from the Japanese gashapon machine, but you can think of it as a kind of video game slot machine that pays out cosmetics instead of cash.

There are two ways to look at this change. The bright side – a view Riot Games takes in its official material detailing the new pass – is that this provides a trackable and foolproof way for all players to earn mythic cosmetics. Mythic Cosmetics – the rarest and most valuable type of reward you can earn from the Teamfight Tactics Battle Pass – have ever been a prize for the hardest high rollers or the lucky few. Players who roll 60 times (done by spending 6,000 Treasure Tokens) are now guaranteed a myth, which is a nice reward for long-term support.

However, those in the Teamfight Tactics community who are annoyed by these changes point out how this removes the surefire option that cool Little Legends players used to get by purchasing the Premium Pass separately, and replaces it with potentially very disappointing results. Not to mention, the time it takes to actually hit the 60-vol mark is sure to be long.

“If we take a quick look at the math of the pass, it takes about 2 1/2 years for the average player to get Mythic,” wrote Reddit user ExcelIsSuck in a post on the Teamfight Tactics Reddit sternly warning players not to buy passes. “That’s assuming there’s a battle pass every 3 months, and you buy every one of them. It’s a crazy time for some pixels on the screen.”

This stems from the fact that there are currently 600 tokens baked into the current pass. So while the idea of ​​a 60-volume guarantee sounds good, it’s actually going to take a long time to get the current mythic loot. With the Premium Pass costing 1,295 Riot Points (premium currency), and previous mythic Little Legends like Chibi Teemo costing 1,900 Riot Points, the promise of the final myth doesn’t make much sense in an economic sense.

Just hours after Runeterra Reforged’s release, the prospect of a future Mythos turned sour, and with so much excitement, players had to focus on the value of the pass itself, to be judged on its own merits. Previously, Premium Pass buyers would get nine eggs, two of which were specific to the current set, but now you get six rolls. Non-paying players were hit particularly hard, dropping from five eggs to two eggs in Treasure Trove. It’s not a good look.

Riot Games has yet to issue a statement on this backlash, but with hordes of players feeling the emptiness of their beloved eggs, you have to imagine it will be resolved sooner or later. But what do you think? If you’re a Teamfight Tactics player, do you think the premium pass is still worth the money? More broadly, do you think this gacha pattern will become more common across the industry? let us know!