For those who don't know, Harem Heroes has Events held every few months. So far, eight have been held:
  • Xmas 2016 Event
  • Valentines Day 2016 Event
  • Spring Break 2017 Event
  • Easter 2017 Event
  • Festival 2017 Event
  • Music Party 2017 Event
  • Summer 2017 Event
  • Sexy Journey 2017 Event


With each events comes a handful of girls. One of them is unlocked through completing 12 of the 14 events available throughout the two week long event, and the others are locked through Epic Pachinko (although a few can been collected through bosses). All well and good until one little detail comes into play...

Once the event is over, these girls are lost forever.

That changes these events completely. Thanks to that, the events turn from fun time-to-time activities to encourage players to both join and come back into a ransom note forcing players to spend large sums of real world money for a chance to get this content before it's gone for good.

And it's the gone for good part that bothers me. I get the need for them to get money from players. The game is free, and this is how they pay the bills and feed themselves. But do you really need to put a time limit on my ability to gamble? If you didn't know, paying up the Kobans may not net you the event girl. Because all the normal girls are still in the rotation, and still have a chance to be the drop. And Epic Pachinko isn't cheap, either. In fact, allow me to give you the conversion of United States Currency to the game's premium currency:

  • 20 Kobans = $1
  • 100 Kobans = $5
  • 220 Kobans = $10
  • 460 Kobans = $20
  • 1,200 Kobans = $50
  • 2,600 Kobans = $100


Those are the available bundles you can buy. So, you'll need a minimum of $5 if you want an event girl. Since each event has at least 3 girls exclusive to Epic Pachinko, this would mean a minimum of $15. If your luck is fantastic. But what if it isn't? Well, to GUARANTEE something for your money, that'll now be a much more hefty $105. And that's assuming you don't get a normie dropped or that the event doesn't have more girls exclusive to Epic Pachinko

What's the damage of this? Harem Heroes is now a game where more than 2/3rds of the content is forever unobtainable because you didn't have money when they wanted it (hence why I'm calling events a ransom note). And that's no exaggeration - of the 83 haremettes in the game, 51 of them can no longer be obtained because they were event exclusive. And 43 of them were either boss drops or Epic Pachinko rewards. So if they were locked in a world you couldn't reach in time or if you didn't have money to spare, too bad. Does it not matter to the devs that the first thing you learn when you check out the harem page is that you can't get 61% of the game's characters already? That has to be discouraging for new players.

And I don't want to be saying this about this game. Harem Heroes is otherwise a great example of a Free-To-Play game. The Basic Currency (Yen, or the dollar notes) has an actual use and is mostly independent of the premium currency (Kobans). I'm more so concerned about the game being long-term playable. The ratio of collectible to lost-forever girls will only increase, making it harder for new players to get in and could very well cause long term players to leave.

However since complaining about something without attempting to offer a solution is... unproductive (to say the least), I do have a possible solution or two.

The most obvious solution is just put every girl behind Epic Pachinko, but I personally would rather the next suggestion be the one taken. But if it's not possible, this would still be better than nothing.

However, I think I have a better (albeit more complex) solution: Event Boosters and The Black Market

The Event Booster would be a booster tied to a specific event. The idea would be that when one completes one of the Daily Missions, they receive their Kobans and a single Event Booster. They could then trade enough of them in to the Black Market for a girl from the event. These items could then become incredibly rare boss drops (About on par with a girl being dropped) or something the player can buy from the Black Market strictly with Kobans - I was thinking 40 a piece outside an event. The "Event Idol" (Cupid-Chan, Flight Assistant, Mountain Sophie, etc) would cost 15 Event Boosters outside of an event. An "Event Girl" (a unique character like Bunny's Mom) would cost 10 Event Boosters outside of an event. An "Event Variation" (a new version of a haremette already in the game like Halloween Housemaid) Can only be gotten through Epic Pachinko. Although they'd remain as a collectible drop from Epic Pachinko, the odds of them being the drop would greatly improve if one plays during an event; at no point could a variation be collected through the Black Market.

During an event, Event Boosters would cost a little less (Costing 30 Kobans instead of 40) and all event girls would cost 3 less Boosters than usual. (The Idols cost 12, and the Girls cost 7).

Okay, here's an example of these Ideas being put into Practice.

Halloween Festival 2017

  • Saki Mato [Event Idol] (A witch with an Eye patch, purple eyes and purple hair in a pony tail. This character would be a parody of Mio Sakamoto from Strike Witches
  • Trick-Tan [Event Girl] (A Sexy and "Mischievous" trick-or-treater. Adult, obviously)
  • Treat-San [Event Girl] (A Cute and Polite trick-or-treater. Also and Adult, obviously)
  • Shadow Noemy [Event Variation] (A "evil" costume for Noemy. A parody of Paper Mario 2 for when Peach was possessed by the Shadow Queen)
  • Twilight Agate [Event Variation] (Agate with bright orange hair, but pale-blue skin and clothes. A reference to the human form of Midna from Twilight Princess
  • Blue Battler [Event Variation] (Red Battler, but with a blue motif instead.)


You can take part in the daily mission of the event - Never Ending Treats - for this Event Booster (Heart-Shape Lollipop). By the end of the 14 days, you can get up to 14 Heart-Shaped Lollipops without having to buy them. If you head to the shop before then end of the event, you could either get the Event Idol and have 2 left over, or get the two event girls but have to save up even more to get the Event Idol (since the price will jump up to 15 after the event and they'll get more expensive to boot). Shadow Noemy, Twilight Agate, and Blue Battler would be available in Epic Pachinko during and after the event, but your best bet of getting them is during the event itself.

Instead of dropping girls, the two modified bosses (Usually Dark Lord and some other boss) will have a decent chance of dropping an Event Booster instead of having to drop girls.

The Black Market would always offer 8 Random Event Boosters for sale. During an event, one will always be the event, but it could be from any previous event.

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So, is this even possible? Is there any way the devs could make these girls available so they're not forever lost because you didn't have the money for them in the two weeks they offered them?