The paywalls and wait times essentially pissed me off. When I first played Shall We Date Games, they had both “freemium” and “paid” versions. This is not to say I don’t play my favorite games from them anymore, but that is to say, I’ll go to Voltage first before I check anywhere else. I’ll tell you why I made the switch from Shall We Date Sims to Voltage. So in reality, is this a cheaper option for the person who can’t afford to buy a route? Except for the fact that I could buy a Voltage route in its totality, with CGs, and could keep it at roughly 4.00$ a story. Now you might say, Meghan, why is 8.50-22$ a big deal? Lots of stories can cost reasonably between those costs. Working that out to real money (assuming you bought the hearts and didn’t win them in the daily login wheel) that works out roughly between 8.50$ and 22$. This is initially a free-to-play option, where instead of buying an entire story and route upfront (that you do get to keep and reread), you have to wait to read an episode every 5 hours, and exchange “hearts” for desirable choices and options.įor the first “Masquerade Kiss” route, for example, I’ve seen people spend anywhere from 85 hearts, to 225 (from perusing Reddit forums and Facebook comment threads). So, why is this an issue? Well if you’ve been following the new system on the Voltage, they introduced the “Heart” or “Love Choice” System a couple months ago. You cannot buy this new title (Masquerade Kiss), you can only play via Hearts. Yet, here they are, beginning to be implemented into new titles and supposedly headliner series. Based on purely observational knowledge, I can tell you that the audience (again, for the most part), did not want them. There were surveys that were sent about how much this audience wanted this system implemented. The Heart System was not liked among the Voltage fanbase in the West (for the most part). The reason I say originally is because when I logged in and tried to play the prologue when prompted, I quickly discovered that this would be a “Love Choice” only story.Įrgo, the stock photo you see above? While it's not my phone screenshot, it is similar to what I saw when I launched the page. So, originally this was going to be a review of the new Voltage title on Love 365: Masquerade Kiss.
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