Talk:Winter 2018 Event/@comment-27516748-20180323022134

Holy crap, it's over.

I know it doesn't have the same emotional weight on me, a newface teitoku, as it does for veteran players like my boyfriend, but holy shit, Kancolle's biggest event EVER is finally over, and it was a whirlwind of emotions from start to finish.

This was the first large-scale event that I participated in, having started the game in early August, and now I really understand what all these veteran players mean when they talk about "raining salt". Kantai Collection is for all the world a frustrating, unfair, balls-busting, hair-pulling, DIFFICULT AS FUCK GAME.

But it's also an addicting, fascinating, adorable, charming, wonderful as fuck game.

I haven't experienced anything like this in a video game in my entire life. When events happen in Kantai Collection, the entire community is whipped into a frenzy. Everyone's racing against the clock, frantically posting on the wiki, cheering each other on, and praying to any and all gods that they believe in that they finally get what they want. That's because it's the video game equivalent of all the kids trying to find the Golden Ticket in a sea of Wonka Bars. All these players have been told that they'll get something amazing, and they're all racing to get it... but it's insanely rare and the odds are stacked against EVERYONE. The odds of a particular rare ship girl dropping on any given map is abysmally slow - anywhere from 0.9% to as high as 4.5% - and the exhausting process of grinding the map over and over and over, hoping that maybe this time you'll beat the boss, maybe this time you'll clear the map, maybe this time your waifu will drop - basically amounts to high-stakes gambling. Random Number Generator favors some, but leaves others high and dry. It's every player for themselves; a proverbial gold rush. It's madness, but it's a madness I was more than happy to take part in.

Best of all, I finally got my waifu.