Thread: *Global Release* Taps of Eradine

Thing is.

As a free player the devs have absolutely no reason to care if you're out. If you aren't going to play, you're just using up server cycles that could be put into making a paying players game more responsive.

So yes, it does seem that with the current drop balance it essentially becomes buy to play after a certain point. So what? That's the way they want to go, fine. Tons of games are buy to play. Some $20 games are probably even worse.

There is absolutely NOTHING unfair with the devs deciding, Hey, if you want to actually have FUN playing our game, you have to pay. If anything that IS fair. You want to enjoy the fruits of their work? Pay 'em.

All that said, I'm of the opinion they've "shot themselves in the foot" with the AMOUNT of payment they are requesting. IMO the game simply isn't $20 good, and I expect if they put their purchase price lower they'd actually get more money. Who knows though, maybe they're planning on other ways to enable boosters for hearts that are more reasonable for the quality of the game.

Well I really enjoyed the game before it got force-restarted, now it's more and more a chore and not fun. Any progress got really slow and as usual you have to rely on luck to get anything useful. I'd say that it's still on bearable level for me, I get it that they have to make money on this but if it gets any worse then I'll probably quit, or switch to relying only on daily spins. Too bad they forgot that it's best to hook people up first and squeeze money off them later because right now it's really not a friendly start.
A bit of a waste since I liked the art (got lucky to evolve mostly the more human-like nymphs) so it kind of depends on what you pick and as said earlier later stages are generally less furry.
Seems the only useful tactic is to evolve high level nymphs to stage 1 to get boost at as low cost as possible and after unlocking at least two super-nymph slots level them up to 10 from bottom to top (I think evolving only boosts DPS not a super attacks damage).
As for the system requirements - the memory leaks are really big during reloading or rebirth, other than that I can play it no problem on my almost 10 year old laptop just fine: be it on autoclick or background when I'm playing something light (usually VNs) on Steam. For now I'd say that server downtimes are more of an issue.

The Point is:

if a F2P Game is at the end not even close to a F2P Game, then it sucks.

If you ask me, they can say: "pay 20 bucks" but don't make it F2P. But make it "F2P" with hard force every player to pay is not F2P at all.

Sure i know they don't make a game to be complete free or increase the work of P2P player, but if they talk about balance between F2P and pay ppl, then there is none, because the F2P Parts are also hard reduced to nealy zero.

Maybe the already Premium ppl are stay, but they will lose many other ppl they maybe want to pay, but not anymore.

I'm in agreement if a F2P game effectively forces you to pay or face grinds that last months - then it's not F2P

I'll support F2P games I enjoy, I'm not a whale but over the last 2 years roughly of FKG I must have put in over $100, possibly closer to $200 - that's F2P

If this game is NOT F2P I won't stick around, you won't hook me on your game, and I won't convert to a light payer - I'd rather games offered me deals to get things I don't need but want

I think that people are overreacting. The patch didn't instantly end whatever gold boost you had, so you still get to play out the rest of your 1 week gold boost. By the time that ends, you've got 6 super nymph slots unlocked, all the nymphs you care about at least to stage 3, max rank French girls' charm, and whatever else. With that setup, a run to 1000 is going to take what, a day or so? Maybe two? Yes, it will be slower than if you had the gold boost, but it's not a PVP game, so if a free player levels slower than someone who pays, so what?

And the $20 purchase is also a one-time thing in order to be able to subsequently buy gold boosts with hearts. If it were $20/week, then yeah, that's whale territory. But if you're not willing to pay $20 for a game, then either you're not willing to pay anything at all and should be ignored when they make business decisions, or else you don't like the game and having a gold boost wouldn't be a good reason to keep playing it.

To save us all time/money, anyone have the art ripped or links to the art?

Agreed, the game is effectively P2P with a free demo. (as it currently stands) So what?

About the only argument I can think of is it's in the free/browser section of the Nutaku site. Well, it seems unlikely they'll make a new section for a single browser games that is P2P with free demo.

(Incidentally, I'm actually wondering if the reason we aren't seeing any gold boosts is because we are (I assume) mostly still under the effects of an existing gold boost. Wouldn't particularly surprise me if they didn't want players to be able to stockpile them.)

And yes, somebody posted a link to the ripped art already. I'd also assume Shards of Eradine shares most of it. (Own Shards, but waiting for the scheduled update that fixes the save system before I really get into it, so no idea if Taps really was just an asset flip.)

Oh, and yeah, IMO they really need to figure out a use for shards once you've got every girl to stage 3 for that type. I'm there for fire already, and approaching it for a couple of the others. And, of course, nowhere near for fantasy. (Hearts could also use something, for what it's worth. Free players can't buy anything with hearts now, and the 10 per 7 day gold boost that payers can won't use up many of 'em once everything else is purchased.)

I'd argue some sort of exchange:
Something like 2 shards of X for 1 shard of Y
10 shards for 1 heart
10 hearts for 1 amrita

(I *think* even with that exchange rate getting to 1000 would be a better way of getting Amrita than running to 500 and resetting, but that would at least give you something to do with your extra currency.)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

And yes, somebody posted a link to the ripped art already.

I checked the thread again, didn't find a link

Gallery named "Taps of Eradine" on sadpanda, category "Western", uploader "ShaDowPoWeR".