User blog comment:DisturbedDeaddMan/Why I Lost Interest and Excitment for Any New Release (Personal Opinion)/@comment-36836718-20190227130017


 * personal opinion ahead, I hope it doesn't come along as ranting*

As someone who has been playing the app since at least 2 years now (with several breaks, some longer, some shorter) and who also tried out several comparable games, I must say I still enjoy most of the books. There have been recently some books that I didn't like as much as others but that was always the case. If I compare some of today's books with the very first ones I have to say I have seen progression. Today it is possible to import choices from one book to the next one. That wasn't possible in the beginning so in the very first Freshman books I had to confirm my love interest several times because the game couldn't remember my choices. I was forced into a story where three people were crashing on me and because of the writing it was assumed I'm fine with it. Today there is a book where you get to choose your sexuality. There may be some bugs and "bad" books but the relation of "good" books : "bad" books is still better than in most games of the competition.

In other games I was presented with 5 choices per chapter which are no real choices at all since 4 out of 5 choices I either had to spend diamonds/jewels/gems/hearts or I had to choose the only free non-desirable option... and the fifth choice didn't influence anything at all. Or if you're LGBT, you can play only 1-2 books with LGBT romance out of 100+ stories where you are forced into playing a female in a heterosexual relationship with a creepy bad boy with no alternative while here, there is at least one LGBT story possible per book. Here I get 2 diamonds for playing a new chapter and another one for watching a video. In other games I get absolutely nothing for reading but am asked to spend 30 hearts per episode when I only have 30 in general. Or I only get 20 gems but every single premium choice costs at least 25... I have stopped reading soooo many stories in other games because I couldn't bear the writing, story etc and here, I haven't dropped a single book. I have easy access to technical support who replies within a day. I could go on so I will just say... the situation could be much worse.