[StarRainbow2]

I kind of like the background, but not enough to go stop my progress with Kuni (especially another event will be coming). I seriously wonder if Voltage is just trying to catch up to all the events that the Japanese version has (as well as making money) and that's why we have hardly had any breaks.

Voltage is not catching up to anything, they mostly keep to japanese schedule of events and there were no breaks either. On a bright side we're not missing out on anything :)
Calendar of jap events: http://fruits-milky.tumblr.com/post/95538946346/hi-all-a-few-days-ago-i-added-the-calendar-of

I see, I didn't know that. Thank you, it's nice to know what events there are, and at least I can plan out what events I'll skip (which from the look of it, will be quite a bit). It's nice to see the house campaign's too.

[ArtemiS2]

[member=7017]Ava[/member] omgosh thanks for the link! And kyaaa some of the houses!! Especially the starry galaxy one!! :O

[devylzangyl]

Is anybody else getting pissed of with the events? I just earned the amount of affection I needed to get to part 4. Read a little bit of the story and got the illustration and now I have to earn even more?! I don't have any money to spend on these events and it sucks that I can't even finish one. What with the incredibly short time that the event is available and the fact that they have the stupid affection levels that are way too high. I thought this app would be fun but now it sucks because unless you have money to spend you won't get anywhere! Individual affection shouldn't even count as the wife points for the events don't count. You can't even finish a stupid event because of this. They need to make these events more fair. Also the stupid 5 hour wait for battles is not helping. Stamina shouldn't take more than an hour or two (maybe even 3, thought I hope not) so we can have enough time to actually finish...

[Vixey]

Yeah, the typical strategy of financially successful free-to-play apps is to start off easy and increase difficulty until the point where it's almost impossible to get to the end without spending real money. That's how they try to get you. It's on purpose. I've read some articles on the subject (my favorite is this) and it makes you feel a little better about suffering through events (or atleast I do) when you know more about how the other side is playing. :)

[Aiwethryne]

[member=13437]devylzangyl[/member]~ You're not alone~ I've thought about quitting altogether on multiple occasions because of this frustration and how this genre is really not my thing, but... something keeps driving me to play. I really miss how soft the GREE event requirements were, so I am dreading what would happen if BMPP turns out like MFWP. But I was well aware that this was a devised tactic to get people to spend money. For newer players, however, this is nothing but off-putting when they don't have "easier times" to look back on. People will continue to spend or not spend for quick progress either way.

The 5 hour wait for Stamina is typical for most games with recharge, though. After whoever started that first, everyone piggybacked on the 4-5 hour wait for full recharge. But 1 hour for full recharge is a bit too fast for someone like me who has multiple games and life to deal with. It is hard enough to sift through the battle crowd to get someone I can beat, and that takes a few seconds to a couple minutes. These times add up, and I would feel irrevocably BOUND to playing every few minutes of my day if the cycle were that short. And how fun is that? Yeah... not at all.

[Vixey]

SWD games seem to be much easier and doesn't strain its players that much. While they might not be making as much money (I can only presume?), I do appreciate that their lighter style helps balance out the more stressful games.

[ArtemiS2]

[member=19266]Vixey[/member] what a great article, thanks for read! but i mean, it's nothing really new as i'm sure most players have figured out there are financial schemes at play with these games. i mean honestly, how else can they continue to run and update? shiz isn't free yo 

albeit insightful, it is unfortunate that these games do seem to target 18-25 year olds specifically seeing them as "vulnerable" and unsurprisingly for legal reasons, but honestly, the article is correct in that even at those "young" ages, you are legally an adult. At least in the states, you can vote, you can drink, you can drive a vehicle, and you can even choose to risk your life by drafting for the military. With those potentially life-altering decisions at your finger tips, i would like to give the 18-25 year old age group more credit in realizing the strategic schemes and financial ploys that are occurring in these games. For me personally at least, I do enjoy the interaction of players, stories, and yes, a helpless victim to pretty pixelated things like avatars but i try to assess, at least to a certain degree, the opportunity cost of when i choose to pay versus when i don't. I usually shell out money for these because i a) value semi-regular sleeping hours and b) unfortunately (or fortunately) have work and so do not have time to be on these apps 24/7 anyway. Thus i will always try and weigh my risk-reward of completing a certain event or campaign, sacrificing not doing either a) or b) (OH HOW I WISHH i could just stop this one lulz) of the aforementioned things or is it worth just not participating altogether.

Of course, time and time again, i have found myself frustrated manyyy times over at honestly HOW MUCH money these games try to extract out of their players, so that in itself is very annoying (YES IM LOOKING AT YOU MFWP grrrrrrrrrrr umble.) so i always try to have a soft cap in the amount i'm willing to spend for each event/campaign/short-term pixelated shiz. This also depends heavily on everyone's individual assessment of their own opportunity cost. But i am a strong believer that even the "vulnerable" 18-25 year old age group can properly assess their own financial circumstances and time management to play these types of games.

Although, it kind of does worry me when i realize that there may be veryyy young kids who play these games as well but hopefully they know better as well/shouldn't have access to unlimited funds anyway lol

holy cannolis, sorry didn't mean to be a mini-essay ==;; rant over xD

[Sakuragawa]

Looking at the price range of IAP for games makes me cringe.

For MFW:P

In-app Products
$0.99 - $99.99 per item

ｳﾐﾆｼｽﾞﾒﾛｫ!! (ﾒ▼皿▼)ノ　⌒　○┼＜

[Vixey]

[member=15717]ArtemiS2[/member] Ooh good stuff! I love discussing this kind of thing. It's funny how even knowing about the tactics we can be susptible. I try not to spend money unless I'm buying a paid game, but I've gotten pretty close sometimes. Why do I at times want a certain avatar or end so badly? I don't know! dem pixels. :P

[ArtemiS2]

[member=19266]Vixey[/member] ahaha so true about dem pixels! I really just stick to the paid games as well because they're really the most economical at the end of the day and when comparing MFWP to games like TSR, Dandelion, DMMD, etc where there's not only tonss of endings to get, replay value, loads of CGs, various playable characters and pretty importantly, VOICED, it's a tough sell to pay for the same dollar amount for one event as you would an entire game (if not more usually in MFWP ). So alas, MFWP is probably my only remaining "free" (hahahaha...hahahaha) game im playing (and maybe BMPP lmao but at this point I think I may just buy all the paid stories for this one  )

[Vixey]

I just noticed they added a new feedback survey on the top page. Mostly about avatars, but one question asks what would we like to see as an added feature and one of the options is the ability to auto-read through text without tapping LETS ALL LET THEM KNOWWWW

[ArtemiS2]

Also everyone def include in "other" a fast forward / fast text speed option in stories puhreazeee!!!

[Vixey]

Yeah, I'm hoping that's what they meant! I didn't think to clarify in the Other but that's a good idea too. It wouldn't let me change my answers after, oh well.

[ArtemiS2]

Haha I wanted to clarify in case they auto the text just as slowly as it appears right now click-wise. Ugh it was so painful clicking through the stories for this xmas event. My fingers were very close to getting carpal tunnel 

[Sakuragawa]

It kills me that MFWP is having another Christmas event. We just celebrated Christmas in the last event even though it's not Christmas yet but now it's happening again. I don't like this paradox. ?(°Д°≡°Д°)?