Spent ¥90,000 on Beyond the World and STILL Can't Complete the Collection? Hidden Rate Disparity Within Same Rarity Sparks Outrage

Imagine dumping ¥90,000 (about $12,500) into a gacha game and still not completing the full collection — not a meme, but the absurd reality one Beyond the World player is living.

A player on Weibo shared their spending history showing roughly ¥90,000 sunk into Beyond the World, yet their card collection remains incomplete. Even more damning, according to the player and multiple community sources, the game has never properly disclosed individual card pull rates. Cards within the same rarity tier supposedly have wildly different drop rates, but the official banner only displays the highest rate of 2% — conveniently hiding the fact that some cards in that tier are far rarer.

Veteran gacha players immediately recognized this as the classic "hidden rate" trick — same rarity label, but certain cards are silently throttled to much lower odds. One NGA commenter put it bluntly: "If the first game that pulled this stunt had been nuked from orbit, the rest of the industry wouldn't have normalized it and pushed the envelope even further." This is a reference to earlier otome gacha games that pioneered similar deceptive rate structures.

Beyond the rate scandal, the game's heavy reliance on AI-generated content has been a running joke in the community. Players spotted that a Valentine's Day event card featured a male lead with four-jointed fingers — a telltale sign of AI art failing at human anatomy. Another commenter roasted: "AI-generated art, AI-written dialogue, AI voice acting — and you're STILL whaling on this? I'm genuinely impressed."

The NGA comment section turned into a full-on roast session. "With that ¥90K you could've commissioned a complete art collection with zero competition from other fans," one user quipped. Another did the math: "Why not just use AI to generate your own harem of men? You could do it for a lifetime, hire a writer for the storyline, and even solve the biggest fear of otome fans — getting 'NTR'd' by canon." One especially savage take called it "giving money to a gacha game run by a skeleton crew — like lending cash to a gambling addict."

Eagle-eyed netizens also dug up the company's previous job postings, which openly listed a "numerical planner" position and mentioned needing to "fix images" — essentially confirming the fly-by-night operation vibes. A studio that's still hiring balance designers while already aggressively monetizing? The community was not amused.

The original poster clarified they're not even a player, just a bystander trying to warn others: "At minimum, wait until the official rates are properly disclosed before spending." The core question is simple — in a gacha game, are hidden rates an oversight or deliberate deception?

As of now, Beyond the World's developers have made no official statement on the matter. In the meantime, the community consensus is clear: stop spending, demand rate transparency, and wait for a real answer.