Stop the negativity! (Love Nikki)
This recent negativity about Love Nikki is really getting to me lately, so I thought I’d share my 2 cents about the game, and about and the devs’ decision to make the new recharge suits so expensive.
First of all… let me ask you a question.
Did you ever play other apps?
Summoners War, Dragon Blaze, Clash of Clans? Or any other app? Because if so, you’d realize how much these apps boost someone who’d actually spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in a game. Of course, time and patience will pay out well, but spending will give you a huge boost. (Note that I personally only played one of these games and listed the others based on my friends’ feedback! Feel free to use any other app as a better example. This by no means should be taken as offensive toward the games I mentioned.)
Love Nikki doesn’t require you to pay anything to be really good in the game. You can farm so many great clothing suits, you can get so many diamonds for free every day, and with the right guides you can easily score high in the Arena. Sure, it’ll take you a lot more time to do so, but in the end you’ll always have something to look forward to. That’s kind of the same in any other game I mentioned before, just that Love Nikki is easier to play overall.
Some suits in the game, of course, come for a price.
The devs need to make money to pay their own bills, so their employees are able to get paid. And then there is the publisher, who too has employees and licenses to pay. And, of course, it’s a business they are running, with the aim to make profit. A perfectly normal goal.
As for the more expensive prices on the english server – have in mind that publishing an app in a different country is more expensive overall.
I understand that 100$ for a bunch of pixels sounds ridiculous, and I’m personally not happy about the prices either. I’d have loved to get the Dragon suit, because I love dragons and I’d just die happy if I’d be able to get it.
But as many others, I got other priorities – so I’m not going to bother.
However, a bunch of people did invest the 100$ to get five (yes, FIVE!!!) suits, together with 12.600 Diamonds because the double recharge bonus got reset.
Honestly, I’ve never ever seen a single game that resets a double recharge bonus REGULARLY, so I believe they are extremely generous here. And the five suits are just a bonus to all that.
I understand that 100$ is a lot of money for most of us.
But that doesn’t give anyone any rights to judge people who are willing to spend that amount of money for a game they love and enjoy, because it makes them happy.
If you earn money, you can spend it for whatever the heck you want – be it fast food, expensive clothes, video games… or for an app you play and enjoy.
Those people are probably working very hard to earn their livings, and like got a job and a secured income. And I truly believe that no one here has any rights to call them whales.
You can NOT compare a student with 0 income with someone who works in a job they studied for. And even if you belong to the people who got a job and earn money, but still cannot / don’t want to afford 100$ for a game, then you probably got other priorities like most of us do.
I know people who pay 100$ per month for their phone bills, I know people who want to have the newest smartphones, who buy at least 5 PS4 games every month, who eat McDonalds every week, and people who can’t afford any of these because they have to pay other bills.
And I know people who enjoy spending cash in a game/app they play daily.
And all of that is perfectly fine.
What I mean is, everyone can spend their money in whatever way makes them the most happy, or what the circumstances require them to spend on. That’s life, and it’ll be always the same! It’s not always ‘fair’, or ‘easy’ for everyone, but that’s just how it’ll always be.
Anyway, TLDR: Please, stop judging those who decided to invest the money in Love Nikki – a game that is extremely generous in so, so many ways.
(Also, in case that wasn’t clear enough… What I said doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to show that you are upset of course. This refers to players who are judging people for spending in the game.)