Love Choice and gacha and cash grabs, oh my – Love 365: Find Your Story Review

Preemptively stating I love a majority of the (non-Love Choice) stories. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on Voltage, from the standalone apps and continuing on today. I’ve been sub’d to the VIP since it became available. There is a lot to love about Voltage Inc and despite the flaws I do recommend giving them a try. Updating my review because they changed the VIP room. Still giving a low rating because of their refusal to address complaints about the Love Choice system. Literally all they have to do is add an option to buy the story outright and a vast majority of people would be satisfied. I haven’t tried any of the new titles since Love Choice has been implemented (not even with their usual “collector campaigns”) I’ve been subscribed to the VIP service since it was an option, but I’m not sure I get any real bang for my buck. The VIP room no longer is just a preview section for Love Choice stories, but a room to collect/interact with Voltage Men (that you have to pay for) and also participate in events where you can collect images and stories (that you have to pay for AND collect in a Gacha-style game.) Events can cost upwards of $100 USD to collect everything, and in collections of 32 items, only 6-10 of them are stories. Typically RNG isn’t on your side and you’ll end up with all the common non-story items before you can complete the rare and super-rare story collection. A vast majority are items to dress up the Voltage Men that you may or not may not even own in your VIP room. Imagine paying 3.99 for a roll in an event and receiving a background image for a character you have to pay 3.99 to unlock, in a feature you pay 8.99 a month to participate in. Now imagine being expected to do that 32 times trying to get 6 limited edition stories that are actually very good, but usually only one chapter long. That’s paying the price of a main story route (and a monthly fee, I cannot stress that enough) to have the CHANCE to read one chapter and not even being guaranteed a story. Both are interesting ideas and I enjoy logging on every day to level up the characters I own, but I feel like I’m paying a monthly fee to... have the chance to spend more money? It’s burning me out really quickly and I find myself taking longer and longer breaks from Voltage because it’s just not as much fun or enjoyable anymore. Checking the schedule and seeing a bunch of VIP events and Love Choice updates and fewer and fewer updates to titles I care about is disheartening.
Review by Jay Marree on Love 365: Find Your Story.