AKB48 Group Official Music Game (Read the 1st Post!)

With today's maintenance, the game is being updated to V3. 2.1
So new apk.

 

it only shows up during event periods. and it was available after the last version update.

BTW, about the renewal drop costumes (e.g. [☆] Iiwake Maybe), are the stats of a fixed 7s costumes are just the same with the evolved 6s one or there's a slight difference?

 

http://akb48game.jp/news/detail/2135
Does anyone understand this?

 

Not sure, Google translate really mangles that announcement.

I think that using paid sound stones will give you points at a one to one ratio and that getting duplicates of existing costumes from a dasu gives you a 5 point bonus for each one. If you use a mixture of paid and free stones, you’ll only get the points from the paid ones, but you do still get the full bonus points for any duplicate outfits.

This may just apply to the dasu, but I think I saw elsewhere that it was all stone usage, may well be wrong about that though.

Looks like the points can be used to buy hearts, towels, gold/silver/bronze jerseys, default game outfits and what might older outfits no longer available from the dasu.

 

New Point System

If you use gems you've paid money for, you will receive points that you can trade in for costumes and items.
The rate is 1 paid gem -> 1 point. If you receive a costume in Dasu you already have, you receive an additional 5 points.

The game prioritizes using free gems over paid ones if you have any, keep this in mind before you Dasu with free gems for 0 points like yours truly did!

At the moment there is a campaign where using paid gems in AKB, SKE and NMB Modes gets you double points, but using paid gems in HKT Mode gets you triple the points.
This does not extend to LP-refills (1 paid gem -> 1 point).

After the Valentine's campaign ends all paid gem uses go back to 1 paid gem -> 1 point.

It's basically a new incentive to pay for your gems to go with the whole paid vs. free gems system.

By the way, the costumes in the point exchange are the same ones as available in the Box Dasu at the time. If you can't get a costume from Box Dasu, you can't get it at the point exchange.

Points WILL expire after some months, so make sure to check the expiration dates from the little button between the drop-down menu and your point total in the point exchange menu!

 

Thanks, that makes way more sense than my attempt.

 

Does anyone here actually buy gems just curious

 

I've been playing since the game was launched and never really felt it necessary to buy extra gems, especially once I figured out how many you can skim off oshi events.

 

I've bought gems once to push me over 50 so I could do a Dasu, and this was before they changed it to the current box system. I ended up with such a garbage draw I didn't want to pay for gems after being burned like that.

However, now that I get "free" Google Play credits doing the occasional survey, I *might* be tempted to buy gems again.

 

I used to buy gems back when the odds for getting new event costumes were much higher. (25% or 33% center pot chance with 50 gem dasu). Now I just save up for when the new singles are added. Which begs the question, where the heck is NMB48 "Boku Igai no Dareka"? I know we get some songs later than they release but it has been over a month now.

 

Yeah lol i thought cuz the gems is actually hella expensive to a point it's not even wurth.

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You've got to respect those that do buy though, the top players must spend an insane amount on the game and basically keep it running for everyone.

But at the poorer end of the scale, I think I would have just quit if I'd had to pay real money for the two 50 dasu I did before the last oshi event, no event oufits and the only useful ones in there were EIGHT various Kamonegix and a pair of Zippers!
In fact I think it's been 350 gems since I last got an event outfit, but the last result felt particually bad, I already had a good Kamonegix unit!

 

kaisap112, thank you for the explanation! Is this the only thing that changes with the paid and free gems or will there be more changes later? I still have some paid gems left so I'm trying to decide if it's better to use them now or save them for later.

I feel you. I had some gems that converted into paid gems (I bought them more than half a year ago, when there were lots of graduations going on) and have used them and along with some free ones in the past event on BOX dasu (100 gems total, but about 70 of which were paid ones). Didn't get any event bonus costume or even 6*. I did get a bunch of 5* and even more 4* outfits so it wasn't totally worthless but I was angry for spending 100 gems anyways. Especially since I thought about not doing it the 2nd time, but I figured if the 1st draw was bad, chances are the 2nd one was going to be better

 

I used to buy gems years ago, but then the devs decided that they won't take money from me through my bank, Pay Pal or anything else, so I can't buy gems even if I wanted to. So I'm "stuck" with free gems only. Taking out the daily gems is certainly not helping (they're trying to cover it with log-in bonuses that total to 1 gem a day at the end of it, but I'm way less than impressed).

EDIT:

I'm not on the development team so I can't predict what they'll come up with, unfortunately. I'd say the HKT Mode triple points campaign is dang good if you have those paid gems.

I've personally moved from Box Dasu to the regular Team Dasus, for the record, Team Dasu now guarantees at least one 5-star costume for every 10 Dasu. Got me a Shekarashika! Red Tanaka Miku and two 5-star costumes this time around.

 

lol I'm aint disrepecting no one bro. I'm just saying its hella expensive compared to other app games its ridiculous. Plus wouldn't it be the other way around, if less buyers buy gems the gems value will drop which make it more accessible for less fortunate folks. I don't believe they need that much profit to keep one music game going lol

 

It's a company. It works for profit by definition. If they could make more money throwing rocks at a wall, they would do that instead in a heartbeat.
And if those whales (players who spend tons of money) keep giving them money they don't give a darn what free players do or think. This has been the big issue on the Japanese mobile and video game market for ages now.

 

^ exactly, that's why I'm saying I wouldn't spend a dime in the pit hole lol. It's actually an issue for big companies worldwide for ages nothing new lol

 

Once I tried for a third time once, I thought I couldn't possibly miss three time in a row.....wrong! That was really annoying, but a least a good a decent spread other high power outfits that time.

Sorry, I wasn't try to imply anything about your post, I just meant generally

 

What are these occasional survey that you speak of?

 

Google survey rewards app. You answer questions google send you via their app from time to time and they give you small amounts of play store credits each time. number of surveys vary and can be even picky to your phone. My Samsung S5 would get a small survey every few days or so, where as my Mi Max has yet to receive one.

Also note, you may be limited to what countries can buy gems anyway, for instance my AU$ is not accepted.