Wow, man... You're Insaneis, right? I don't know if you said this on purpose to bring negativity here or if you just misunderstood what Kaos spent so long time explaining you, but it's false that they do only care for core players.
A quick search provide various quotes on this matter. For example, on 11th September:
Makuro: "Anyway, it's not relevant to discuss if the game should be balanced for casuals or pros, your goal is to give everyone a good experience, not one or the other.
Kaos: yes, and that's why we need to take time to push the changes".
Maybe the sentence you misunderstood (or purposely twist?) is this one: "I don't want to create a feature that will take a lot of time just to satisfy a few players. I want first to create stuff that will satisfy the most of our players. my time isn't infinite." (emphasis is mine)?
If so, a careful reading of this statement should make it clear that they don't think only about core players. But they naturally think first about them, which any good businessman will tell you is perfectly fair.
Lol, seriously? I was reading all your conversations with Kaos on Discord when they happened, and i was more under the impression that you were the one kinda full of himself. I mean: you, a programer (so, not a game designer, are you?), a single player, you know better than the game design team that get the entirety of the players' data (and know their behaviours) and has knowledge of the plans for future (short and long term) features?
If yes, I tip my hat to you. But more likely, you're full of yourself
Don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying the dev team didn't make any mistake, but the fact that you call them "full of themselves" - despite they spent more than 1 hour discussing with you, answering your questions and explaining their point of view - feels inapproriate.
For your information, they said they're gonna work on that.
Well, the point is that you don't have to spend 9 millions everyday. You spend what you earn. I think with this new system, depending on how many girls you have and how often you collect money (don't forget that the main source of income now are fighting the boss, not the harem), an average player should spend between 2 and 7 days to raise a girl from 0* to 3*, which seem perfectly fine by me.The fix came yesterday and i lost 9 million to raise two affection points during that time, and you are seriously asking where the problem is? Jesus christ i dont care anymore if you defend this bullshit. I can only buy legendary items now, wich means i need to spend atleast 10 millions to max out a girl that then gives me like 1000 bucks... thats a huge problem for me. If you have the time to collect money 24/7 thats good for you. I dont have that amount the time to solve my income problem (ingame).
If you happen to have more detailled calculation than my rough estimation, I'd appreciate you share it
Also, keep in mind that they said they proceed by iterative adjustments. Further fine tuning will probably come in a not so far future after they evaluate the in-game effects of yesterday patch.
Oh, and for the record, I don't spend more than 20 minutes per day on the game. Yet I make more than 1.5M per day (I have 75 girls and i'm in world 9. More than 1M of my incomes come from fighting Finalmecia). Maybe you're in a different situation, but 20 minutes per day seems hardly unachievable, imho.