#@ beemoov better drop the episode next week--

[minty-bear]

*sips coffee* I miss my 3rd husband-- *reads smudged name on hand*  Ryan Zaidi-

[dawnthecreator]

An Open Letter to Beemoov

This is my letter to Beemoov. It’s very long, but I just couldn’t stop thinking of things to add to it and it took me three days to compose it.

Dear Beemoov,

Before I start, I want to thank you for all of your hard work and everything you and your game have done for us. Without you, we wouldn't have My Candy Love and all of the wonderful things that came with it. I know that in this letter I'm going to come across very angry, but it's only because I care so much about it.

I am a loyal fan who has been playing since my registration back in 2012. I found your game back when I was just discovering what otome games were and My Candy Love was the most intriguing. With it's in-depth customization of Candy and the illustrations she appeared in along with a steady build up to relationships with the NPCs, I was hooked almost immediately. You set the bar very high for what an otome game should offer.

I loved the characters, even if I struggled to get most of them to love me back in the beginning. I wanted to get to know them, I wanted to help them with their problems, and I loved seeing my accomplishments reflected in the illustrations.

This game has done a lot for me. It's given me inspiration for new art styles, it's allowed me to meet new people and become part of the fandom, it inspired me to to create blogs dedicated to the different aspects of the game like Fandom Confessions, Outfit Guides, and Illustration Guides. Your game got me through some tougher times as well. When the real world was getting to be too much for me, I could go to this game and find an escape.

So much time and money has been invested into this game, not just by me, but countless other players, some who've surely poured more money into this than I have. We were teased that this would be a continuation of the characters and that our relationships would continue on into this new season, but it's not, and we were never given a reason to believe that we would be separated from them, especially after reaching one of the biggest milestones possible in a relationship.

The fandom is a mess after ChiNoMiko announced that out of all five boys only Castiel would be returning to the game, and none of her responses to the fans' questions and complaints have been helpful or reassuring – some of them coming off as rude and unprofessional. The fans feel hurt, like you don't actually care about how much this effects us, how much these characters you made mean to us. Your own way of handling the situation hasn't been much better, with dropping only one answer a week, and addressing the insignificant questions over the most important ones until much later when everyone pretty much already knows this information. Your responses to the fandom thus far have been rude and unprofessional as well, and it's not right for you to treat your clients like this.

You want us to trust you, trust that you know what you're doing and that everything will be okay if we wait and see. But the thing is I don't trust you, not anymore, and I'm certainly not alone in feeling that way. You rushed the last several episodes and character arcs, giving us little to no breathing room, you ended the “First Season” with an underwhelming conclusion and jumped right into one of the biggest and worst timeskips we've ever had, and we've been forced to break up with our boyfriends without an option to do so. You got us excited to continue the story in the next season thinking we'd be doing so with our boyfriend and closest friends, but you lied.

I'm a Beta Tester and I have to say that I don't trust you to handle this new season well either. Through just a few lines of dialogue we're told we broke up with our boyfriend, which from the player's perspective is coming right off the heels of us finally giving ourselves to the boy we love most, which is such a huge deal even in real life.

The reasons for the break up are ridiculous as well, saying that it was the distance that ultimately made them end it, even though in this day and age, technology has done wonders to bring people closer together from all parts of the globe and long distance relationships are not only possible, they're becoming increasingly common. Not to mention the personalities you made for these characters and the dynamic of the relationships being so strong that Candy and her boy would've done whatever it took to stay in touch, no matter how difficult.

With more dialogue, we're even told what's happened to the boys, and I have to say it sounds like you've butchered Nathaniel's character. Whatever character development he had in the last game seems to have been thrown out the window for a more self-destructive character for whatever reason, to the point that none of his old friends like him anymore.

As for Kentin, as it was pointed out to me by one of his fans, you already had him and Candy break up once before near the end of the game and now you're forcing them to break up again. I can't understand why you'd make such a cruel decision like that to make Kentin fans suffer more.

The most heartbreaking of them all is Lysander, though. On his route, Candy said that she would be there for him as his father was dying, but now she's left him even though both of his parents have passed away and he had to move onto their farm. He would need Candy more than ever, but because she left him in his time of need, that makes her such a horrible person.

It's been hinted at by Chino that at the very least, the boys will be mentioned, but no cameos are currently planned. But the game hints that we'll see them again in passing. But I don't want to see them in passing, I wanted them to still be with us and go to college with us. Looking back at all the illustrations I've gathered over the past six years, remembering all the tender moments my Candy shared with her boyfriend, I have to wonder what it was all for if we're just going to break up with them and only hear about them from our friends? What was it all for if you're just going to make it all null and void in the second season? Why not just make a new game entirely?

It may sound stupid, but I've cried over this. Many of my friends have been crying and still are with each new bit of information we receive. We've been playing this game for so long, and now it feels like you're tossing your old customers aside for new ones that haven't even discovered your game yet. I can't even begin to understand how that's a good business move. The fandom is in flames, the “silent players” are actually coming out to voice how much they dislike these decisions. In all of the six years I've been playing this game, I've never seen this fandom overwhelmingly reject something you've done with this game. Even the complaining about Nathaniel's awful bird shirt doesn't compare. And it feels like you're ignoring us. It feels like you're ignoring the complaints, the fans who say they're leaving, and the mods that are resigning. I have been loyal for six years, even when you stumbled with your stories, I still played the game. But now I have no reason to continue into this second season if you're just going to take away everything I worked hard for.

Also, please for the love of God, change the AP system back to how it was. It was fine the way it was. Not perfect, but far better than what you've done to it. It's bad enough that dialogue costs AP now, but the cap on AP has made it so much worse. The Beta episode alone was just under the 1000AP cap and it's not even finished. It's going to be even more difficult to play just the current episodes, it would be even more difficult to try and do any replays. It'll discourage people from doing replays, and it'll discourage loyal players from logging in everyday to get their free AP and money. Players are going to lose momentum and interest very fast and it could make them quit altogether just out of frustration with having to stop so frequently in episodes. Please, just change it back, or if you're feeling generous, change it back, but leave the new daily 20AP.

The reason for this new AP system is transparent, it's to get more money. Maybe you weren't making a lot before, but this isn't the way to do it. You should invest in your merchandise, put faith in it. Most of My Candy Love products are only available in France, with a whole manga series that hasn't been translated in more than two other languages as far as I'm aware. It's so difficult for fans outside of Europe to get a hold of the merchandise. Try investing in easy-to-make items, like calendars and posters of varying sizes. I know so many people, including myself, would eat that up like candy, paying real money to get our hands on it, but you'd have to make it available everywhere, not just a few countries. I've seen people shell out $20 or more for posters, there's no reason you couldn't jump on that opportunity.

I don't want you to fail or be shut down. I want you to consider harder that the decisions you're making are the wrong ones, probably the worst ones you've ever made and need to be changed. We want you to succeed, but we also want you to deliver the best possible product My Candy Love can be, and this isn't it. Thank you for being so patient to read my lengthy letter all the way to the end.

Sincerely,

-  A Long Time Player of My Candy Love

[candymayvary]

I know you keep saying you'll play until you see Castiel, but what happens if it doesn't play out like you want? Nathaniel's current route and attitude really hurts me, and it really makes me not want to play anymore because of it.

If I get far enough to even meet Castiel, based on this ridiculous AP system and whatnot. It’ll probably get to a point where I’m just going to have to login for freebies, wait until the episode drops with Castiel... try my hardest to get there. Or youtube it. Who knows. Timeline wise, still got a month until he appears, and from the experiences with MCL’s storytelling, a month later can take 10 episodes, or it can take 1. I don’t think they’re just going to shove him in in the next like episode or two, but I have a feeling he’s going to appear by at least episode 7. At the very least. Also based on how high you can already get l’o’ms in episode 1 (hello, Hyun, yes, I would just like some coffee. No, that’s not a euphemism. I would like a job too, pls), I don’t know. Maybe they will introduce him asap. We’ll see.

And if it doesn’t play out like I want... well, I’ve pretty much got my own canon and stuff. I may take the little tidbits of info they offer, such as I have with his band and stuff already, but rework it. I was already beyond disappointed with the direction they’ve taken with MCLUL (as I have made tremendously obvious the last week alone), so honestly at this point, I’m prepared for the worst kind of.

Yeah I’ve... seen some stuff about Nathaniel. And the choices you’re supposed to make. References to the MCL art books and stuff for once (finally). Also a post about how Nathaniel is doing the Castiel attitude better than Castiel ever could lmfao. Especially stuff when you chose him as your high school boyf. I’m... I don’t know. I don’t know what to say. I haven’t experienced it firsthand, just through what I’ve seen, so I can’t really form my opinion completely on it. Whenever I get there, I’ll probably talk about it more...

Honestly, too, I don’t blame people for going ‘you know what... no, thank you’ and not playing. Before, during or after. Not starting or not continuing. Information trickled down through blogs and stuff, not officially, so some people found out a lot of stuff, others not so much. Some people figured it was going to be Nathaniel with how much they were hinting at it in the beta, but people who didn’t get into the beta either didn’t hear that part, or it really was not as talked about as what I thought it would be. The attitude from Beemoov is also disheartening, to say the least, and I mean... if they had written the first few episodes, yeah, sure, I couldn’t exactly fault them entirely for going ‘hang on, maybe we should rework some stuff’, but I hoped they would, deep down.

Nathaniel’s route is going to be a really touchy one, as it’s a lot of anger and frustration on his behalf, that’s turned into a reliance on alcohol and partying, which also stems from a long and painful childhood of domestic abuse (from my interpretations, anyway, of his characterisation in MCLUL). Healthy coping mechanisms aren’t here yet. And you know what? If you, the player, can’t do it. Don’t want to do it. Don’t want to have to go through this writing experience that may or may not end well? Don’t force yourself to. Don’t sit through something that is going to take months to get through story wise, anyway, especially if it makes you uncomfortable, upset, or angry. Your own health is the priority here.  

[otomelavenderhaze]

Yeah, it’s a friday so I don’t think it would come out friday, but it’s possible that next week we don’t got any episode at all because this week we didn’t had any teaser about it. But Beemoov already dropped the clock suddlen before, without nobody expecting it, so we need to keep our eyes out for that. 

I think... episode 12 can be the solved thing. I’m not sure tho if they will really, because Candy and Rayan has no plans to turn the tables, Priya didn’t show up with any solution to save the day yet.... I do hope they make it the last episode of his arc, but I’m really not sure if this is going to be the case. 

Let’s hope it ends, if not in a smarter tone, a tone that will be better and more romantic @draconess-tania​ (how make Rayan’s arc romantic? Y’all don’t ask me, cuz I have no idea). 

Btw, Rayan's birthday next week, it's in the 8th!! Gonna do something for my love, still not sure about what.