I don't understand the extensive panic. For what I have seen, the game has become more sloped for paying players, and more time consuming for free ones, but at the same time it is more open to the option of trading time for playing it full-free, with many more kobans than before now completing dailies.

Before the update I had stoped collecting money from harem more than once per day or two, as it only served at that point to keep growing stats with not much sense (we always have a bonus to stats as active part in every fight) and to save 1 or 2 mills for the week the next story segment is released. Pachinko could be played doing dozens of 10X rolls with an unnoticeable lose, "casino" contests could be summarized as how many rolls were you willing to do in the final hours without getting bored.

Now the money sink is girls affection and level, no big deal.

We are on day 3 of the update. With a harem of 50, got Bunny to max, Juliette to 4 stars and halfway to final. After that, is waiting again for more content to be released.

I really hope for many more girls being updated with two more images, some of the hard-to-get ones had too dull nudes with no sex as final scene. Hopefully we can have that while not increasing the time lapse for new story releases.