Re: (Nutaku) Milenium War Aigis (English Version)
I will admit I haven't had to spend anything recently the downtime between events has allowed me to keep my crystal count at a decent number, beyond rolling for a gold or platinum spotlight that I want atm. I simply do not have enough room to roll for more units.
Aigis is probably making some money as new players join and word of Nutaku gets around (I have been seeing more mentions of it lately.) But I don't believe many of the established players are putting much into atm, maybe during the events but with as high as level as we are its not difficult to max an event unit out with only a moderate expenditure of crystals.
I have no doubt we will see the all-ages version though. But when, I have no clue. Nutaku hasn't even mentioned a timeline for the release of the All-ages site yet Nutaku.com
Aye I think the all-ages version should boost the playership somewhat, however as mentioned by others, the lack of a community system will pull that down.
I'm not particularly sure about the market model involving whales for Aigis, there is no PvP. Personally I would spend a few bucks to farm an event since it's $1 a stam reset (see right there you see the TEC model working, $1 for 12 hours of RT is my threshold, and even then it's bordering on unacceptable)
As of this event, Shiho is a marginal character, post-buff she will be decent, but right now she is somewhat meh compared to cloris and well leveled silver witches. I would blow max $5 for this event. However, if the stam reset were 50-20 cents I might spend $10-20 for example.
What they should do is reduce the marginal costs of SC and increase the number of events. If there is minimal downtime between events, the free players will be compelled to spend $$ because they wouldn't be able to accumulate free SC in time.