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Infinity Nikki has the "I know I should expand on my existing OCs and flesh them out but I can't stop making unfinished ones!" problem with every update.

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Are IN fans impatient? Maybe. But by promising monthly updates you are setting yourself up for an impatient fanbase. Of course people will constantly expect something new.

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Pipa and Violin to receive higher octave notes—from 2 octaves to 3 octaves.

HELL YEAH!!!!!!

Infinity Nikki Upcoming Optimisation Preview Overview

Today Papergames released new notes on the upcoming optimisation post 1.5 update. I have translated and summarised the notable ones below.

Queen Philomia Throne Room and Timis Makeup Removal Production Room will be made available.

Pipa and Violin to receive higher octave notes—from 2 octaves to 3 octaves.

Wardrobe and Sketches will be sort by Quality by default—originally is by Recent.

Support for Eureka to be disassembled into Eureka bits.

Support for custom main interface adjustment for Mobile version.

Allow player to enter Wardrobe while on riding stance.

Photo Quest will now automatically upload upon completing the quest requirement—no need more manual upload.

New violin playing action pose.

Player can now use co-op pose with other player while in photo mode.

Future update will allow for Nikki and Momo to take picture together—we will be able to pose Nikki and Momo.

Warping to spire in co-op mode while holding hands will now warp both players together—only applies when the hand-holding initiator warp.

Adjustments to Sea of Stars daily.

Automatically hide the Star Bell UI when not in co-op.

Promised to prioritise future version stability.

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So this post crossed my dash but its in a community so i cant reblog it. However i need to be an infold hater so bad (tldr this is about the latest "apology" letter infold gave over infinity nikki. Photo duplicated for formatting reasons)

1. I didnt catch that when i read the apology but LMFAOOO WDYM THE RETCON WAS AN ACCIDENT. Thats a straight lie. Bitch how in the fuck do u go ahh i tripped *removes old intro* ahh im so clumsy *creates cutscene and new tutorial* ahhh i keep falling over *forces everyone to play the new thing on game launch* be so fr

2. Mention the amount of gem compensation; 8 pulls. Mention that if u dont log in all those days, u dont get ur apologems. Mention that even if it was 100 pulls it solves nothing really, but 8 is still insulting. Dont the 5 star banners end by the time u get these apologems anyway?

3. Private way to direct criticism is a very deliberate move. They're tryna direct all criticism to private channels so their social media isnt't blowing up with bad reviews and new players unfamilliar with what s happened maybe fins the game and never find out what they re walking into. They want u to stay quiet.

4. Mention that directly after posting this, they posted the 4 star banner + events promo. To bury the apology. And likely bcs they knew ppl would be Pissed if they posted the promos without an apology.. but didnt really wanna address anything.

No hate to the og poster i just got frustrated cuz it feels a bit hand waivy, but most importantly, what infold is doing is sneaky and many players might not catch it, so i thought i'd mention how this really really isnt an apology either. They deserve no benefit of the doubt, fuck infold forever

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i was ready to buy this DAY ONE.... when i learned it was "free"....... knew it was only a matter of time....

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Stylists, is gaming Nikki

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A thing with IN, unlike SN, is that it has a hard time making me spend

I'm legit less likely to spend on a suit if it has a shit ability. I don't care if it has an aesthetic one, does it have a function like summoning a motorcycle? No? Fuck you

(Vice versa I'm definitely going to spend even if I hate the suit if the ability is good. In no alternative timeline I'm not getting cowboy)

When it comes to SN, if the clothes are pretty, I'll immediately want to spend. I'm also a heavy lore/story player, so if it's of a character I like, or if the event story manages to get me invested, I have higher chances of spending. Designer cards are very important in this.

I... Don't get to this level of engagement with IN. Since it started, I don't think I've necessarily seen any clothes that made me go absolutely insane over. Nor have the event stories gotten me to bond with the characters/designers much. Sigh.

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Like I could have almost forgiven the 11 piece outfits

global player's first mistake

I reaaaaaally hope Infold takes all the feedback from IN players to heart and changes the opening of the game back. Like I could have almost forgiven the 11 piece outfits, the dye system only unlocking palettes PER PIECE, not having certain palettes without evolutions, the ridiculous “discounted” (how is it a discount when it was never sold for the “original” price in the first place?) props, all the bugs, etc. But changing the entire opening cut scene of the game and making it so boring compared to how it was, not to mention the Sea of Stars being nothing more than an empty, glorified tutorial area? Bad decisions, Infold. I would love to know wtf they were thinking.

And I’m not even an older Nikki player, but from what I’ve gathered the Sea of Stars is something in the other games too and it’s usually really lore focused? So I’m pretty disappointed in how it is in this update, can’t imagine how older Nikki players feel. The Serenity Island stuff with the Pieceys would have been good enough for this update if they were just going to rush the rest, which is what it feels like.

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Make sure to leave a bad review on Steam.

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If you are a non spending player (f2p) in Infinity Nikki, here is why you should care that the 5 star is 11 pieces and leading to a boycott:

Spending players, especially whales, are how YOU get to be f2p.

Because if a gacha game alienates their whales, it proceeds extremely quickly to "f2p can barely do anything at all" as the game slides faster and faster to pay to win to make up for losing their whales. Then f2p players leave. Then the game hits End of Service because no one is playing and paying for it anyway. No more Infinity Nikki for anyone. Infinity Nikki is not "too big to fail," it's big enough to withstand losing a lot of people, but the lower the revenue falls, the faster shit hits the fan for f2p.

You know why the game has been so generous with free outfits and pieces every month so far? Because that was the honeymoon period. They were trying to hook us in, and more importantly, they want happy whales who feel like they're getting their money's worth so they will keep spending.

We are now in the "fuck around and find out" phase of a gacha's lifetime, much earlier than I'd hoped. This is the part of the gacha timeframe where the devs increase monetization and things like the spending meter that I call Gacha Bullshit. This is when they test the waters and see how far they can get away with things.

11 pieces is an increase of pity by 20 pulls. No sane gacha game would do this unless they were testing the players' reaction. If you play any other gachas with a set pity, think very hard about how increasing those pities by 20 pulls would feel.

Mira Crown is a decent chunk of free pulls and diamonds for all players every month. Changing from every 14 days to once a month was the test. Conceding and changing it to twice a month is "we hear you, but we don't really want to listen, so shut up already."

If whales don't push back NOW against the increasing Gacha Bullshit, the devs start to add more, and, slowly, choke out the parts of the game that are f2p. This has happened before. This is why there's a "stupid" boycott! It's not "just" discourse.

You want your game to stay playable and fun for f2p? Then stop sneering at the very people who pay so you can play it f2p in the first place.

(This is not a defense of spending practices in predatory games, but it's the reality we live in that whales exist who want to spend money on things that make them happy.)

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For those that are interested in the context of the on-going Chinese stylists vs Infinity Nikki devs, here it is:

Papergames & Infold Games collectively decided to increase total pieces for 5-stars outfit set from 10 pieces to 11 pieces. Thus, increase the max pity to pull a full 5-stars outfit set from 200 to 220. Since you only get one pity 5-stars piece per 20 pulls. This get more expensive when you pull for a second set for the evolution.

Currently: One full 5-stars outfit set; 10 pieces * 20 pulls = 200 pulls max pity Bubble Season: One full 5-stars outfit set; 11 pieces * 20 pulls = 220 pulls max pity

Then there is another issue raised, which is Mira Crown being more than 14 days. While some argue that two Mira Crown per season is reasonable, but this is not the core of the issue. The core issue being that Mira Crown tooltip originally stated that it will reset every 14 days, however they have secretly removed this tooltip and increase Mira Crown duration in 1.5.

So, the Chinese community stylists right now are advocating for a max pity cap at 200 or 180 and revert Mira Crown back to 14 days duration. As what the game studio have done this time is predatory on stylists and paying consumers.