History ScrappyMechanic / EpicSeven

* While it was nice to finally have a Story Journal that allows players to rewatch story cutscenes and dialogue in-game, Side Stories require the player to own the specified Heroes first, otherwise, the stories can't be accessed. This is frowned as an odd choice as it requires luck from the gacha. There's also the fact that the Story Journal doesn't contain all the side stories the moment they get released, players have to wait for future updates when they get added. Players would just watch the story on Website/YouTube instead because of these limitations.

** Equipment Conversion was added to reduce some RNG layers but it also requires resources and gold. As of mid-2020, these resources are "Cores" that can be extracted from unwanted equipment. In turn, this feature is seen as something that's tailored for end-game and hardcore players.

** Equipment Conversion was added to reduce some RNG layers but it also requires resources and gold. As of mid-2020, these resources the "Cores" that can be extracted from unwanted equipment. In turn, this feature is seen as something that's tailored for end-game and hardcore players.

** With the Gear Unequip Cost, there are two {{Money Sink}}s to deal with if you want to upgrade ''and'' swap gears outside of Free Unequip events.

* For years, ''Epic Seven'' doesn't have a 10x/multi-draw feature in most banners despite having it in Selective Summons and Friendship Summons. So if you're unlucky and had to hit the safety net for the featured hero, you have to tap the screen at least 121 times. A [=QoL=] was added to skip the "Draw again" prompt to save some time.

* The layers of [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] on equipment. It's a major turn-off for players if the gear becomes junk when it rolls on unwanted stats despite costing a lot of gold. Imagine spending so much effort and money just to end up with junk gears.

* The last quarter of 2019 had updates that were deemed mediocre by the veterans, namely Pets/[[GameplayAutomation Repeat Battling]] requiring Homemade Snacks, costly Equipment Conversion requirements, and underwhelming Word Boss rewards. The Real-Time Arena at launch also had a repetitive meta made up of GameBreaker characters. Several updates solved these concerns, but only ''after'' the game had been review-bombed on the Google Play store. The hate for the Homemade Snack even made the ''E7'' Website/{{Reddit}} to set it as their downvote icon for a long time.

* The layers of [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] on gears. It's a major turn-off for players if the gear becomes junk when it rolls on unwanted stats despite costing a lot of gold. Imagine spending so much effort and money just to end up with junk gears. And with the Gear Unequip Cost, there are two {{Money Sink}}s to deal with if you want to upgrade ''and'' swap gears outside of Free Unequip events. Gear Conversion was added to reduce some RNG layers but it also requires resources and gold.

* The layers of [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] on gears. It's a major turn-off for players if the gear becomes junk when it rolls on unwanted stats despite costing a lot of gold. Imagine spending so much effort and money just to end up with junk gears. It's possible that you could end up having no improvement on your main teams' equipment because of RNG. And with the Gear Unequip Cost, there are two {{Money Sink}}s to deal with if you want to upgrade ''and'' swap gears outside of Free Unequip events. Gear Conversion was added to reduce some RNG layers but it also requires resources and gold.

** For years, ''Epic Seven'' doesn't have a 10x/multi-draw feature in most banners despite having it in Selective Summons and Friendship Summons. So if you're unlucky and had to hit the safety net for the featured hero, you have to tap the screen at least 121 times. A [=QoL=] was added to skip the "Draw again" prompt to save some time.
** The Gear Unequip cost is a MoneySink that could easily drain a player's gold if they constantly unequip end-game items (Lv.70 and Lv.85 gear respectively cost 25,000 and 50,000 per piece). Free Unequip events exist to help ease this, but it developed a mentality of waiting and swapping only when this event occurs, otherwise, the [=F2P=] could waste millions swapping end-game items. While the fanbase might agree that gear unequip costs don't have to be removed entirely, at least reducing them for end-game gears could suffice, especially since there are other gold sinks already.
** The layers of [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] on gears. It's a major turn-off for players if the gear becomes junk when it rolls on unwanted stats despite costing a lot of gold. Imagine spending so much effort and money just to end up with junk gears. And with the Gear Unequip Cost, there are two {{Money Sink}}s to deal with if you want to upgrade ''and'' swap gears outside of Free Unequip events. Gear Conversion was added to reduce some RNG layers but it also requires resources and gold.
** The entire Promotion mechanic, especially when promoting a Hero to 6★. It takes a long time to level-grind lower-rarity fodders just to sacrifice them to higher-rarity fodders and so forth. It's seen as a FakeLongevity factor.
** 15% Innate Effect Resistance. As officially explained [[https://page.onstove.com/epicseven/global/view/4057257 here]], the chance of inflicting a debuff cannot exceed 85%, so no matter how high your Effectiveness stat is, there's still a 15% chance for the debuff to fail. Heroes with "Ignore Effect Resistance" can bypass this. But for a lot of players, this mechanic shouldn't exist since it's just another RNG factor that could mess with Heroes who rely on debuffing enemies.
** The last quarter of 2019 had updates that were deemed mediocre by the veterans, namely Pets/[[GameplayAutomation Repeat Battling]] requiring Homemade Snacks, costly Equipment Conversion requirements, and underwhelming Word Boss rewards. The Real-Time Arena at launch also had a repetitive meta made up of GameBreaker characters. Several updates solved these concerns, but only ''after'' the game had been review-bombed on the Google Play store. The hate for the Homemade Snack even made the ''E7'' Website/{{Reddit}} to set it as their downvote icon for a long time.
** Skill Enhancement is dreaded by the [=F2P=] since [=MolaGora=] and [=MolaGoraGo=] are two [[TooAwesomeToUse precious resources]] that don't come often. Problem is, it requires dozens of these to fully enhance just one character, especially if those are natural 4★-5★ Heroes (although 4★ obviously use fewer Molas than 5★ heroes). The [=F2P=] would most likely take months just to enhance a Hero's skills to +15, and it's generally more convenient to level up certain 3★ heroes (even for whales) since there are 3★ who can do the job just as good as (if not better than) their higher rarity counterparts (and enhancing skills for 3★ only cost stigmas, a currency that's VERY easy to farm).