I finished setting up a rank 3 lineup for japan ground. I got the m24, chi-nu and na-to. I feel confident with these as I’ve been doing good with them while researching their upgrades. If I could do the event now this would be more than enough to complete it, as there wasn’t a rank multiplier for it as far as I know.
However, while grinding for this, seeing the tank without the omaneko pillow on it next to the others kept reminding me constantly that I missed it. It didn’t feel nice, it was like a pang in my chest each time from the frustration, and even if I tried not to think about it I could feel that something is missing. I don’t think I’m capable of “just getting over it” as long as I’m still playing the game, as playing the game itself brings it back to my mind. On multiple days I played less than I had time to because I just couldn’t take remembering that I missed it anymore and needed a break from knowing that. I’ll never understand why such things have to be limited time. Like, who benefits from a popular cosmetic item like this that clearly has an audience that isn’t sold for money not being available to earn permanently or at least being guaranteed to come back? It just causes frustration for those like me who want it and didn’t get the chance to earn it in the short window of time when it was available.
Like at least let us buy it. If you just had a bundle for it in the store for 9.99 or something, I’d buy it. It would be prefferable to this uncertainty about wether or not it will be earnable again.
The reason why I missed it just adds insult to injury. I created my account and first started playing at the end of this year’s spring, months after the event to earn it ended, so it wasn’t even like it was my fault for not paying attention to the news or something, it wasn’t even under my control because I wasn’t playing back then.
I’ll have patience until 11th February 2026. If it’s not brought back even then then it’s clear to me that it won’t ever be brought back, because with a year having passed all other options would be invalidated with it not having been brought back before that date and as others have said that date is when there will be the highest chance of it coming back, and at that point I’m just better off moving on from the game as a whole if there is just no way for me to get it. The knowledge that I missed it is too unpleasant, playing the game reminds me of that and I’m not a masochist, so I can’t keep going like this forever. I’m ussually not one to stop playing a game after less than year, I’m the kind that plays one or two games only for many years, but in this case I’d have to quit because my peace of mind is more important.
Anyways, I just needed to say this somewhere, and in the meantime I’ll get a rank 3 lineup for Japan air too and keep a close eye on the game news in hopes that Gaijin answers my prayers and gives us some way to get it again.