Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-36036865-20190806063218/@comment-32647310-20190808183656

Admiral Hide wrote: Yefta03 wrote: I guess Kadokawa doesn't want to listen the international market demographic demand. Please do not forget the fact that Tanaker gang had already decided from the start that they wanted to minimize incentive for players to spend money on this game, as much as possible. That's just the way the game was promised to run until the end, for better or worse. It means, whatever fancy features we can think of that other games may or may not have for sale, Tanaker gang would have to do it for free. There are multiple ways to interpret that perspective and promise though.

With regard to making as much of the game free-to-play as possible, I feel that Tanaka is keeping true to the spirit of this promise. One can easily play and enjoy the game without spending a penny on the game. While this does become difficult fairly quickly (as folks are forced to make some hard choices on who to keep), there is no real requirement to spend money and be able to go 'All Hard' on events.

However, there are a LOT of things that are readily available to the game that costs money that, when you think about it, are just cosmetic (Furniture Fairies), make things easier/"quality of life" (fleet presets, repair docks, construction docks) or just allow players to buy things that are hard to come by (escape the grind) and/or improve a girl's capabilities (Reinforcement Expansions, Rings).

Because these things exist, there is no reason, at least in my mind, that the devs could not allow folks to set a favorite CG to someone after it's been unlocked for a small, one-time charge, as this would be purely cosmetic in nature and not out of scope of what is already available to someone willing to open their wallets.