Thread: *Global Release* Taps of Eradine

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".

I assume some of us have probably run out of gold boost by now, has anybody actually gotten one as a drop yet? (Note: I think I've only seen/caught 4 orbs since the patch, and I've had the magnet maxed (though not active) for days., if that matters.)

(Note: I'm still under the aegis of my boost for another day, and everything except golden puppy shield is maxed, so all I need at this point is amrita)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Talk about phoning in a game.

*shrug* IIRC when they first announced this (on steam, I think?) a long while ago, they pretty much said it was going to be an asset flip of shards assets to sorta promote shards/the shards world. Later on Kimochi it was allegedly so popular they wanted funding to add all the H content from shards.

So, uhm, yeah. It is pretty much just an asset flip. I can only assume shards didn't do as well as they hoped so they're trying hard to monetize taps.