[aoxsaba]

Unless my memory sucks, during the strawberry event I remember we had a 3x fever, or even two

[tssf]

They gave us two x3 fevers in one event, Strawberry most likely, it hasn't happened ever since.

What?! How is the hair suddenly for top 200? It still says 500...
NO! Voltage and the double information again... The sidebar says 500, but the event rewards say 200... Goodbye beautiful hair...

[Ravonna]

Hah~ they changed the Zen balloon to Zain balloon hahaha
I guess they heard us...

I want to bombard Voltage with questions and suggestions for a x3 fever mwahaha

[flavoura]

The last time I saw, mine was around 202 in rank too~^^'

Even in noobabble they mentioned it's for top 200 >~<

Oh! I haven't checked Zain's name in his balloon yet xD

[Washu_Takahashi]

I saw the hair was 200 and have been working towards it. Been at 150 for a while now, so should be good. Not trying for the background, but might end up getting it depending on how many gems I need to FC -_- I might just give up on FC since Wil and Keith's items are dumb anyways and the dress isn't that special. We shall see...

FINALLY got a 70k mate last night right when I was ready to call it quits and just hunt for a 30k mate. Barely cleared Wilfred/3rd SHE. About dang time >< And so the hunt for a new mate begins again...

EDIT: Just finished the gacha! Wow, I think that's the earliest I've ever cleared it. And no gems spent, as usual. Maybe my luck will turn around for this event yet...

[flavoura]

Eh finished the 'gacha'...? D:

Full clear in part 1 was said to be around 134,4k Washu^^

[Arisa-chan]

means she already got all the gacha offered

Just minus 1 spot more...that planet-look-alike spot is really hard to get

[Aiwethryne]

I got the "Night House" planet thing around my 30th spin. I still need a castle. I just cannot stop thinking of gambler's addiction. All of you prattle on that maybe your luck has changed, or that you or other people have beginner's luck. It seems all the same to me. The moment you get something good at the beginning, it seemingly erases much of the former grief from "unluckiness" and your optimism drives you a little further.

I still need over 1K TLF for my SECOND SHE. And this portion of the event ends in roughly a day and a half? *twitching* I am already at 12200 route LF, and they expect me to make 8000 LF in a day with this Gacha Medal Fever? Max LF I can gain from cards and invites is maybe 2K.

Of course they want me to be devoted enough to spend money. I have missed maybe three Dates, and my rank is in the 600s. First time I was not already in the 400s, so I cannot be too heartbroken over the top 200 hairstyle. That Special tab is always wrong. It never ceases to display incorrect info EVERY EVENT. Why can't Voltage understand that and deal with whoever keeps feeding it contradicting numbers?

[Washu_Takahashi]

Yeah, I meant I got all the date spots and all the balloons.

The castle was actually the first spot I got, oddly enough. Just rolled the airport a little while ago, was the only thing I was missing.

I feel your pain Aiwei...I was at 17k personal LF before I cleared my 3rd SHE -_-

Kinda rant-y so going to put a spoiler on the rest to skip if you want.

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I'm tired of saying it and I'm sure everyone's tired of hearing it, but MAN do I miss the GREE days. I rarely ranked, but that didn't bother me since I ALWAYS full cleared using nothing but the LF cards we'd get from the gacha. Heck, back then I'd usually even have enough TLF to clear an extra HE or two or even three. I probably spent a grand total of 20 bucks on the GREE game, and that was for some closet and warehouse space that I desperately needed (GREE was actually really good about giving away free space if you did well enough in the events, miss that too...) Voltage picks our pockets in a way GREE never even attempted to do...honestly if I wasn't already a fan from the GREE days I probably wouldn't play this version. I already quit all of the other Voltage and SWD games that charge you for CGs. I'd rather just buy a paid route for much cheaper.

And off topic, but another otome game was announced for the Vita for North America. That's it. 3 games is the final nail in the coffin for me. Time to buy a Vita @.@ Norn9

[Ravonna]

Do you think they'll give us the same town gacha in Part 2?
We did get less chances now than before since we're playing only half the routes.

Spoiler below is just my reaction to Washu's spoiler. I'm also putting it in a spoiler because it's irrelevant... and a bit long... and rant-y. Yes, it's very rant-y too... Seriously rant-y.

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Washu's spoiler makes me think that maybe Voltage does not know what the definition of a free game/free-to-play is. I mean, fine. In-app purchases is very much optional, but they're making it hard to be just an option. I know it's a very popular tactic in most mobile games, but for crying out loud, aren't they shoving it too much in our faces? They're seriously abusing the model. Other similar otome games don't have to do it, why can't they? In fact, their other party games isn't as bad as BMPp, so what gives?

I'm kinda surprised they're even continuing with their tactics even though a lot of people are complaining about it and I'm sure they're not blind and have seen a lot of comments of how skewed their system is. (Or maybe I'm just encountering a good deal of people who complains about it very much, which still says a lot about how their system sucks.)

But seriously, what's the logic behind driving away free players in a free-to-play game? Sure, it pays off really well right now but in the long-term, paying players will eventually get sick of cashing out too much for the game and will limit themselves (or quit - I know a paying player who dropped the game after a few months because she was spending more than she intended to.)
Of course new ones will come, but with the events as it is now, I doubt that some will even give it so much as a chance.
(But then again, there's a chance I may be overestimating their fans/players)

It's not like they'll lose anything by toning it down. They still got those gem gachas wherein gems are needed. (5 gems per spin, what is up with that?) I mean, for heaven's sake, their customers are buying a bunch of virtual staminas in events that'll be gone in a second. It's not even avatars, which we can at least enjoy playing around with. And even though the stories are good, we can't even save and repeat them to our enjoyment.

I seriously don't understand what's Voltage's deal is with BMPp!

Man, I wish I had seen the BMP's GREE days but I didn't even know what otome games were back then.

[tssf]

I still didn't get to my third SHE, working on it now, but I should get enough TLF on my own by the end of the event. I'm still sad, because I really wanted Robbie's hair. And the gacha still didn't give me any items or the castle.

GREE and Voltage

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In the GREE days events were doable unless you did everything wrong. I was new - had no idea how to play, I didn't know about LF and messed up in my first event because I wasn't informed, then I figured things out on my own, my second event was much better. Normal mates were enough, no need for the extreme mates we need now to achieve... Well, pretty much anything.

Really, I went from a complete newbie to someone who actually could play fast, I never had regular mates,  but I was easily able to clear everything with mates who had similar LF, no gems, not missing a date was enough to make me clear everything early.

I know "free" games are just another way of making money, but this is insane. I stopped playing all my otome games because they started pushing out event after event, trying to make me pay for pretty much everything, the events just aren't doable anymore. Voltage doesn't care about complaints as long as people are paying. Free players mean nothing to them, they just want paying players and they want those to spend more.

But their demands aren't justified at all. They're crazy, you have to pay for everything. If I was paying for the game, I'd go crazy and write complaint after complaint, because their instructions are a mess, they don't provide enough information, give us false information...

Of course almost all games have in game purchases, but in BMPP I'm starting to ask myself where I can find the free part.

[potao]

Oh wow, apparently I haven't gotten the Ed balloon until now o_e Doesn't matter since I sell them anyway, but that's sad considering the odds.

I wish Voltage would calm down, though I know most of the stuff that I've been nooooo about is about the same as LT :/ I mean, I don't mind dealing out $ when I feel like it's alright (my Gem purchase totals is almost $100, it will be over that by Zain's BDay otl), but it's getting to a point where it's... really not alright.
I'm used to "Freemium" games and the like, but I only feel fine with them most of the time because the "Freemium" games are to get objectively better things like better weapons and armor. 90% on BMPP I'm dumping Gems for friggin Stamina. sigh

[Arisa-chan]

I believe we'll get the last fever tomorrow right after this Medal fever ended
Hope I get the rest 10k for completing my first and only HE

[Washu_Takahashi]

The town gacha will most likely be different for part 2, seeing as everything else will be different.

Replying to all the other rants~

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Actually, the 5 gem gachas aren't new. GREE had them too, except they were called medal gachas make then. You could buy medals, or earn them very slowly by FCing events. First spin was free, same as now. That was really the only major money sink. Events also had ranking items for the top 10 players, so that was a money sink as well, but most people didn't go for that. There was a huge gap between rank 10 and say...rank 80. Similar to now I suppose. But getting the regular event items and reading every route was a breeze.

It wouldn't surprise me if people playing obsessively and throwing tons of money at the game stop playing, realizing just how much they've spent. I've already had a friend from the GREE days quit after spending more than she intended to on events, and since you know someone else you did the same, I highly doubt they're the only ones. I know I've spent way more than I wanted to...but my phone is hooked up directly to my bank account so it makes it easier not to think about how much I've spent xD I really don't want to know @.@

If I could clear the events without any items, I would. I honestly could care less about ranking if I wasn't spending money. Since I'm already paying it's like...well I've come this far, might as well rank. I miss sighing over the pretty ranking items I'd never have and just being happy with all the route items. Now I'm sighing over the route items I've missed while still ranking, what is this madness?

I've been waiting to start my first HE route until the fever happens. It's not THAT much more, but it's nice to have the combined start fever and x2/3 fever. Perfect time for last minute gem spending if I have to too.

[flavoura]

Oh it's the usual 2X LF & crush fever..