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mariokirby:
Was anyone prompted to update to version 1.07?  What are the changes?  I don't think this is an old update since I play OFA every week for fun after beating the Ex episodes.

OniZetto:
After knowing them for a few months, all my thoughts about them have come to a clue: It is already a miracle that these 13 girls can last for a decade.

With such setup, they will be running out of options very soon. You may argue that new story lines can be made over and over, but there won't be infinity options as they have their own personality, and the story has to fit that. That way, they need new characters to assist those old ones to keep them alive (I'm looking at you, CG and ML fellows...) And irony thing is, those side-products are even more famous than the original.

With a few console games (yes, I'm not going to talk about side-products like mobile games) that almost make no difference, well maybe a full season of anime with a movie, plus annual celebration that gathered fans around vocal actresses does helped their long journey, it's still unbelievable that NBEI can keep them up running for so long. Although they're not all that famous across the world, they are still the first bunch of virtual girls in the world that have CD albums released under their own identity instead of their vocal actress, there are also a lot of secondary products like other anime all around. So all in all I may say NBEI created a milestone as they're producing virtual idols. But if they don't fix their selling strategy for the game, even those hardcore fans will eventually drop out of the circle; because Project iM@S starts as a game, not an anime or anything else.

Maybe my vision and thoughts aren't 100% correct, but by a simple glance at 918 incident I know that NBEI will not learn the lesson; they just want to grow larger and larger by taking our money, without concerning a title's spirit and consumer's true feelings toward those titles. This way, our best action to reject them is not to buy something you don't like.

DeviantProtagonist:

--- Quote from: Naryoril on May 26, 2015, 04:04:30 pm ---I don't really see why your are all that disappointed. Yeah, there is no new costume or accessories and no all new song, but come on, it's 4 songs. It might not be the songs you wanted (nor is it for me, i'm still waiting for Yakusoku and Aoi Tori), but i'm sure there are quite a lot of happy people out there, for example about Shiny Smile or Smoky Thrill.
--- End quote ---

A happiness already fulfilled, sure; the real issue isn't for the actual song choice so much as how they recycled everything from iM@S 2, let alone at full price. Hell, even the NG trio similarly fall under this category, given their individual idol releases -- the new song hardly justifies the price point and what little you get for it. Still, Namco's trying it as their apple of your eye.

If that doesn't exemplify the term shoehorning then I've no clue what does.

OniZetto:
I do think the only thing that worth my money was the EX episodes, although there are very few stage outfits that suit my taste, I still don't want to spend like 10 USD just to get a set of clothes... or a song.

Maka:
Re: the longevity of the main cast: I feel like they could still keep doing stuff if they experimented with the characters more. They COULD make Makoto be girly like she's wanted to for basically a decade, but they keep rehashing the same stuff over and over again because that sells.

That's why as much as I like 765, I'm totally for CG and ML expanding because these characters are basically blank slates. They can do new stuff with them, regardless of whether or not you think they're flat/carbon copies. I feel like 765 has become locked into their roles. I'm afraid of them stagnating. Takane is always going to be ~mysterious and weird~ with not a ton of development, etc

In a perfect world all three would get equal attention from NBGI but money's what talks so CG is the one getting games and an anime instead of ML.

I'll probably delete this later because this is totally disorganized but I wanted to get this out so :V

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