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so I finished Serena Season 1

and I do like her but I don’t even care because everything else is so annoying like

and I forgot how abrupt the endings are if you don’t get the extra special story?

AND

If I wanted to read the other ending, because there are two after all, I would need 17 extra tickets to fast-forward through the damn thing (plus hearts presumably to unlock “passionate” dialogue choices) just to see it.

Once.

And another 18 the next time I wanted to read it.

because no chapter access

And AND I used the tickets to read the first six chapters of the elf-guy in L&L when Lovestruck first came out and clicked for chapter seven and it was all this isn’t out yet even though we let you click the button and spend a ticket on a chapter that doesn’t exist yet, but don’t worry, we won’t make you spend another one once it is!

So I finished Serena and decided what the hell, I’ll read the next few Iseul (sp? I don’t even care anymore) chapters now that they’re out and three chapters is about all I can manage because tickets and IT WAS BACK AT CHAPTER ONE. So not only did it forget my “pre-ticketed” chapter 7, it forgot the six before it that I’ve already read

I hate this thing. 

I don’t know why I keep trying

I mean, I was EVEN ON THEIR SIDE in regards the ticketing option for accessing stories, but they have fucked it up in every way it is possible to fuck it up

#lovestruck critical#like I need that mrs white flames gif#AGAIN#or a good stabbity.gif#I'm not that angry a person usually?#like I am super judgmental in ways I try not to let manifest 'cause it's mean#but I'm not usually /angry/#cla#jilly rants#I really need to write a comprehensive feedback email#just so I feel better about this#but I think I'm still too mad#*DID I MENTION THE STABBITY.GIF*
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faejilly replied to your post: But like, it bothers me a little that the plot for…

This is very true but I’m enjoying it anyways?

I’m mostly enjoying it. In a low-investment way. Which is weird, because if they hadn’t pulled that stunt I probably would have bought Serena’s bundle at some point? And, like, raced through the whole first season, and gotten much more invested. *shrug* I am always a sucker for hyper-competent women, though. And the MC in this is much more interesting than a couple of the others. 

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faejilly

ugh yes to all of that, like

I do enjoy the MC, too. She is clearly both a clever woman and someone who chooses to be kind which is a really important character trait that is very seldom recognized as important so that’s fun. (I mean, she has no specifically useful /shipwrecked on an island skills/ but let’s be real, how many people have useful deserted island skills?)

I’ve been trying to read Serena’s route, but when I can read does not line up to when the tickets recharge, and I refuse to spend money on a thing I would have to spend money to read again (so I can also never choose the heart options) and if I could just purchase the season I probably would have read it all in one day and then bought the next one with the next paycheck. I mean, I had a plan, I could buy one thing a week if they were the little stories, or one every other week if it was a bundle, and now I can do nothing.

Like. They broke their reading model. It’s stupid. I would be entirely in love with Serena if I could read it properly. As it is I like her but *shrugs* I have to wait for the next chapter, and by the time I can read the next chapter (and have tickets) I have kind of forgotten the last chapter, but I can’t re-read it? I can’t even spend a ticket to re-read it if I felt like being gratuitous because there’s no chapter access it’s just Next or First. I am so frustrated. Like, eventually the annoyance is going to outweigh the romancing-awesome-ladies satisfaction and I’m going to give up and they have shot themselves in the foot with this idiocy.

And it’s especially infuriating because they only need minor adjustments? Chapter access so you can choose where to spend your damn ticket, and an ability to over-ride the tickets and buy the damn thing, which is clearly in the programming because they grandfathered in previous purchases in the old apps so there is NO REASON not to make it an option in the new one. Either tickets /or hearts/ and hearts are permanent!

Ok and also give us a higher ticket max or faster recharge ... and put the ads in the ticket half instead of the heart half to earn more tickets? It’s just so stupid I can’t get over it. If I don’t give them money, it’s difficult and slow to access, but even if I do give them money it’s not permanent (unless I did the old app thing) AND NOW I GET ADS AGAIN. Generally you give someone money to get rid of those not to bring them back.

/SO BACKWARDS

#cla#lovestruck#I am so mad#there is no one else making apps like these#long form character progression#and wlw or even the nb route in astoria which is SO GOOD#there's nb child in the epilogue season too!#they are so adorable and respected#and the whole thing almost made me cry#and now I cannot READ THEM#NOT EVEN by giving them more money than they're worth#which let's be real#I WAS DOING#BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY THING LIKE THEM#even if they were ridiculously overpriced#and now they are inaccessible#*stabbity.gif*
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