In the current list of contests I am a participant in, someone just spent 15 million cash. I don't think it was for winning the contest either. I know there were whales that had millions of stored up cash, but if it's taking millions just to win enough affection items just to level up new girls, what's us normal dolphins and even minnows supposed to do that never even come close to THAT much money. Add to that the when whales run out of currency and they can no longer play Great Pachinko hundreds of times at once, and then they are forced to start using Kobans to upgrade new girls, even they may start abandoning ship. Who in their right mind would keep playing a game that is so obviously and epically broken, and have to eventually resort to using increasing Koban cost in upgrading new girls once their vast amount of cash stores are gone. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems Koban cost to upgrade affection scales just like everything else. I hope no one playing this game would really consider spending $30, $40, or even $50 dollars worth of kobans just to upgrade a harem girl's affection one level. That would be insane!

I honestly don't even know if I have the motivation to finish out the Back to School event when I know that I'll just get yet another girl that I can't even hardly afford to upgrade to 3 stars, much less 4 and 5 stars when and if the time comes. I'm only at 33 total girls now and can barely keep up daily purchases of affection and exp items without spending more than I collect from my harem and from battling trolls. Of the last 8 girls I've managed to collect since the "version 2.0 re-balance", only one is sitting at 3 stars, five are still at 2 stars and the last two are still at 1 star. I ran out of affection items soon after patch and that was after buying them twice everyday from the market since I started playing about 3 months ago.

The story is amusing, but it's not quite amusing enough to keep me playing a game that seems to be punishing the players from being successful in said game. Winning girls should feel like an accomplishment, not a punishment. Then I read the patch notes and find out that I may have been spending Kobans on items in the market without realizing it. Shame on me for not looking at each and every item, but man what sneaky thing to do, especially since the patch notes were posted over a week after the patch and no one really knew the exact changes until now. But what do I know? People are still spending money playing Epic Pachinko to win girls they know will cost them more and more to upgrade. I guess some of people playing are ok with these changes. *shrugs*