The gacha era may finally be coming to an end for Tower of Fantasy, the game that once tried to go head-to-head with Genshin, as it responds to a barrage of negative Steam reviews by taking a radically different path: the Warp Server, an alternate shard with no lootboxes, just classic MMO-style progression. Launching today, November 25, this new environment promises to replace luck with grinding, a deeper economy, and player interaction as the real deciding factors for your power level.

Tower of Fantasy is trying to turn its gameplay around with a drastic move: a dedicated server built around a simple idea, getting rid of gacha and using that shake-up to inject life into a community that has been shrinking for months. With this bet, Hotta Studio is deliberately walking away from one of the pillars that has defined the free-to-play title since launch, trading random pulls for a more traditional sense of progression and a more complex, MMO-style economic system.

The Warp Server, which goes live today, November 25, is framed as a bold experiment inside Tower of Fantasy. On this alternative server, players will no longer depend on gacha rolls to obtain characters or weapons, instead unlocking them through straightforward farming, like in old-school MMOs. On top of that, the server features an economy based on peer-to-peer trading and auction-style exchanges, echoing the genre’s early philosophy and stepping away from the heavily monetized model of the main game.

Hotta Studio Is Confident This Is What Tower Of Fantasy Needs

Hotta Studio describes the whole project as “a revolution within the game”, built around deeper systems, free trading, and regular seasons. These seasons are intended to do the heavy lifting: each cycle refreshes content and available gear, while also resetting item stats back to square one. The team has not fully explained how this will work for long-term progression, but the structure clearly hints at a twist on the usual item-level creep – the mechanic where each new patch or expansion raises the ceiling on gear power – applied in a kind of reversed way.

This shift arrives at a particularly fragile moment for Tower of Fantasy, whose standing on Steam is scraping the bottom. After the publishing rights moved from Tencent to Perfect World, a lot of players logged in only to discover that their accounts had been wiped because they had not completed a manual migration in time. The almost total lack of communication made things worse, leaving users without their saves or their paid items and triggering a wave of angry, negative reviews.

The big question is whether the Warp Server can bring new faces into the game or tempt veterans to return, especially those who might only come back to find their progress gone in the transition. If this gacha-free server really delivers a more transparent, better-balanced and socially driven experience, it might turn into exactly the fresh start that Tower of Fantasy has been chasing.

Source: 3djuegos