User blog comment:Linathan/Misunderstandings about Summon Rates in Brave Frontier/@comment-8647678-20180202194016

While I agree that the 5% rate is quite high compared to other Gacha games, you have to keep in mind how much currency is handed out for free.

FEH might have objectively worse rates, however, they hand out orbs quite frequently, both as quest rewards and just for logging in, so it never really feels like saving up orbs is impossible when you are F2P.

Another Gacha game that comes to mind is FFBE. Frequent free summons, 1/2 price daily summons, very frequent free summon tickets and Lapis for log-in and community event bonuses, not to mention the amount of Lapis and summon tickets from weekly events - these all make the 3% rate on 5* units much, much more bearable.

BF really pales in that regard. Outside of events, there's only a guaranteed gem every 5 days for logging in, a gem for watching 10 videos daily for 10 days (when it actually wants to work...) and... well, nothing else, really. Even during events the freebies are decent at best. Not even a good rate like 5% can alleviate that drought.