#voltage romance sims

[fangzluv]

So am I the only one who remembers when all of Love 365 Otome Dating Sim games were seperate and actually playable?

I remember playing all of these games daily; Rental Boyfriend, Office Lover, Sweet Scandal, Sweet Proposal, Royal Midnight Kiss, etc. all as separate standalone apps and loved them.

I’m so happy that I was able to play ALL of these before they merged all of these into one app. Scary I know. But they were really good with the way they were.

Feel bad for those who likely won’t ever get to experience them the way they were and are stuck with ads or limited tickets to read like 2-3 dialogue worth of chapters, paying for everything. It really sucks now. So expensive.

People spent so much on those standalone apps too. Imagine waking up one day and seeing it all gone.

I mean just look at these reviews.

There are TONS of them like this. I mean ALMOST ALL.

You’d expect they’d at least provide some sort of compensation/ refund for those who flushed actual money down these apps, but no, no warning or reach out, nothing. They ripped off of so many players. Oh and they don’t respond to anyone anymore nor check reviews from what I’ve noticed so I guess they just gave up.

I don’t know why they felt the need to do this, as they clearly had many players spending money on their apps (MULTIPLE apps) and I don’t think merging and following through with the use of coins in Love 365 did them any better if it were the case of making more money. Its truly sad how they fell off.

Nothing serious by me. I don’t usually see many people addressing what they did either. Likely because new players after this update have taken over so it’s all fine with them. Almost felt i was stuck in some type of matrix as if I’m the only one who remembered how it’s supposed to be lol.

It’s just slightly frustrating not having those gacha games anymore that brought so much nostalgia and fun late nights. All progress and efforts lost.

I wouldn’t recommend supporting a company like this. But oh well. What can frustrated people do except move on lol.

[voltageincboys]

“I don’t care about class. I only care about you. Your tears will only be of happiness.” ~ Kyosuke Takatsukasa ~ Rose in the Embers (Owned by Voltage) •April•

[lovelydiamond500]

Okay so, I’m no genius nor super smart media preservation genius BUT

Maybe we should try to preserve the English translations/ stories in Ayakshi rr as much as possible? Whether screenshots or just text it would be really great to have! (To my knowledge the Utapri shining love wiki has this so it’s doable to some degree I’m sure!)

I can’t go through the pain of losing Afterl!fe again and I KNOW YA’LL CAN’T EITHER

(Fr y’all I just want the English translations to be preserved as much as possible if what I’m talking about already exists pls send me a link!)

[juvellita]

Hey .... Sorry for being a bother but did u check the schedule .... Kazuomi season 3 is coming next month 😍😍😍😱😱😱

Sorry I just checked my inbox, and noticed I had unread/unanswered asks/updates that i received over when i was taking a break!

Idk when the person sent this, but this is so awesome. I am so behind. I want to catch up when I have time, but for now I am enjoying on bingeing on romance anime/otome animes 😂☠

[peachyotome]

Isn't Takao just the cutest?!

-Daisy

[sueisen]

Marry me Kyo-chan pls

[emilyplaysotome]

Damnnnnn Namba 😍

[voltage-fanfictions]

How did voltage screw you over?

In April 2020, I purchased the coin login bonus, as you can see from this invoice below.

All is fine, as you can clearly see it is the coin login. Move forward a few days, I log in to Love 365, and I receive a heart. I’m confused, perhaps this is a daily login thing I didn’t know about? The same happens the next day, and the next. I soon realise there’s been a fuck up on Voltage’s end, they’ve somehow coded me to get a heart login rather than a coin login.

I contacted them about this, they were extremely uncaring, unhelpful, and blew me off. They told me to go to Apple to sort it out, this was not Apple’s fault for once, they had not incorrectly taken my money, Voltage had incorrectly assigned my purchase. I tell them I don’t want a refund, I just want the correct login bonus.

Their customer support goes on a tangent about monthly subscriptions or something completely unrelated to my issue. They proceed to ignore following emails, and are still, to this day, telling me there’s nothing they can do.

They stole my money, and despite it being their app have claimed for over a year they can’t find a single way to provide me with the coins I paid for.

Until @voltageotome give me what I paid for in April 2020, I refuse to give them a single penny more.

[prinxe-of-akedia]

i'd like to apologize in advance for the person i become when the headmaster's route is released

[sadisticsmiles]

Happy birthday, Tsumugu Kido! Have a fun April Fools’ Day in Japan!

[fantasygamer]

Could we please get Chiba route 🥺 I know it will be an interesting ❤️

[voltageincboys]

“We will be fugitives together, but I love you.” ~ Shinsaku Takasugi ~ Era of Samurai: Code of Love (Owned by Voltage) •April•

[aceopmari]

Well damn. That’s really sad how Lovestruck is shutting down. I’ve been all over the fandom on tumblr and seeing people desperately putting out petitions, save Google drives, files, Ao3, etc in order to keep the story alive. (It’s sad but I don’t blame y’all.) But if I’m gonna be realistic, I honestly don’t believe it’s gonna work. Lovestruck is broke so I don’t think a few signatures isnt gonna motivate them to keep the app alive and I also feel as if they see the stories online somewhere, they will forcefully take them down due to copyright.

Lovestruck fell off due to financial reasons/poor marketing choices. This app and the stories are literally FREE if your not splashing the cash on tickets and I feel that the fandom is mostly going for the free route. If Lovestruck had just followed the same system as their Japanese counterparts, (or even a similar app like Episode where your more motivated to buy diamonds to get access to things you want) they might not have been struggling financially…just a thought…

[grandduchessmiki]

Everyone meet Ms. Honey Bone and Mr. Sexy Snack 🤣

[peachyotome]

Haruka is so sweet and it almost makes me feel as if this is a continuation of my soft boi reviews, which started with Mitsunari?

-Daisy 🌼

[benichi]

please tell the story of what happened with BMP back then 😳 I’m shook

I shall! Gather around, today I‘ll tell you the story of the first big battle us overseas Otoge fans had to win.

[For those who don’t know what this is about or want to see more screenshots here’s the short version on my Twitter]

A little bit of background info before we start. Back in 2011 Voltage released „Pirates in Love“ which was pretty much the first English Otome game we ever got (before that was a release of Yo–Jin–Bo, which unfortunately flopped however). For a long while it was also the ONLY Otoge we had, with routes being released up to months apart. Funnily enough the first PIL release we got had also been edited, however since the internet and Otome games in general wasn‘t as much of a thing yet most people were unaware. Plus they actually made the characters whose appearance they changed appealing and it matched the overall style.

So BMP actually wasn‘t the first time they changed things to “appeal” the overseas market - but simply the most noticeable.

Slowly (very slowly lol) more Otome games would be released in english. Especially back in the day Voltage was one of our main content providers. After PIL which was released as a standalone app Voltage decided to try out a new medium here - GREE. Basically it‘s worked similar to how Cybird games are now. It didn‘t host Voltage games only however, but a bunch of different games from different companies. Voltage would only release 2 of their games on there before they got shut down: Be My Princess and Celebrity Darling (in that respective order.)

Small rant I actually liked GREE BMP more than the other version because MC had a job as a designer so this whole „you have to design/wear outfits to progress“ actually fit really well. Like I love BMP, it’s one of my comfort games. But GREE version was simply more interesting than “Oh I ran into these Princes on the street and now one of them has to randomly take me in” imo. Rant over lol.

BMP was actually up on GREE for a while, I managed to finish 3 routes while it was available (I‘m actually not completely sure if that‘s all they released before they decided to move on from GREE or if I was slow) but either way, shortly after Celebrity Darling got an English release Voltage decided to stop putting their games on GREE altogether. That’s when this whole mess went down.

People were obviously upset about losing all of their progress and content on GREE. Especially because it seemed like BMP was rather popular. Which is why Voltage decided to release the standalone app for it.

...

Just not in the way we wanted:

I’m still unsure exactly what compelled them to ever think this would go over well. Maybe the fact that they had edited some of PIL and no one ever really said anything about that played into it. Maybe they thought because Twilight was a big thing back then that girls would surely be into sparkly pale faced individuals with creepy smiles. We will probably never know just what went into the making of... THAT.

(No he doesn’t.)

But either way and as you can imagine people were  m a d. It hit even harder because these were character we were familiar with. One moment we were dating charming 2D Princes - and the next we would be faced with these weird photoshopped/drawn pale dudes that just looked unsettling with their dead fish eyes. Plus despite the fact that all of these characters would be part of the same game they didn’t look like it. The princes (and art) had varying grades of horror - some of it didn’t look that bad but some was nightmare fuel.

(Not only Wilfred’s face, all of their faces were expressionless. Or creepy.)

So before the game was even released they got major backlash. Considering how incredibly niche Otoge were over here back then this incident actually got a lot of attention. Here’s an article that was published by Kotaku back in the day. However Voltage still went for it and despite everything released two routes (Wilfred & Keith) with their own... rendition. We can assume it didn’t sell well, plus even if our fandom was rather small back then we were incredibly vocal about our displeasure.

I mean we basically had nothing to lose. Releases were far and inbetween anyways - and if this would be the future of overseas Otome Games then we’d rather not have any at all. Luckily the nightmare ended eventually and Voltage released the standalone app of BMP as we know it. (They were actually planning to release an “international” version of LLFTX as well, but it never went beyond the planning stage.)

In retrospect this is a pretty funny incident now. It might have even helped Otoge get more attention because again, a lot of people became suddenly aware of this niche market. I guess we were fortunate that Voltage decided to pull this stunt AFTER they released the BMP GREE version. I’m not sure what would have happened if their own rendition would have been the second overseas release after PIL. Maybe Otoge would have simply been written off as weird and the market would have died before it even got a chance to grow. Or maybe people wouldn’t have found the art as “weird” since there wasn’t much to compare it to and there would have been an era of “Twilight aesthetic” Otoge made by Voltage for the overseas fandom lol.

Either way it did end well and those of us who went through this experience can laugh about it now. I actually used to have more posts of Twilight BMP on my blog but deleted most of them since Voltage had a time when they were going after tumblr blogs and I was scared they’d be displeased by those reminders of their early days by me haha.

As you can seen, right from the start things have never been easy for us. But we have always been resilient and we’ve got a great sense of humor that has gotten us through a lot. I hope you enjoyed this piece of Otome Game history!