Nintendo and DeNA will have been learning a lot of lessons from both the successes and mis-steps of Miitomo, the quirky social app that started fast but burnt out rather rapidly. It's had frequent updates that have sped it up and improved the user interface - which plenty will have missed - but the latest changes may tempt long-term absentees to take another look.
Version 1.4.0 has now rolled out (at least it has in North America and the UK where we've checked) and introduces a new game where you can use that pointless Candy you've accumulated in order to get Game Tickets. It's game tickets you need for Miitomo Drop, the mini-game with a lot of neat outfits to be won, but many will have accumulated a lot of candies with missed attempts. These aren't particularly popular, mainly as they were previously only useful for unlocking friend's answers - hardly a thrilling pay-off.
Nintendo is changing all of that, in the process adjusting the in-game economy. You no longer need candies to get new answers from friends, but instead use them in the new Candy Drop game to nab extra tickets for the main Miitomo Drop game. The full changelist from the app is below.
The general concensus from some going back to Miitomo after a few months is that it's improved quite a bit. Are you tempted to dip back in and check it out?
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These are actually pretty good changes
I've been checking in for 2 minutes a day just to get the My Nintendo coins. Now if there was just something worthwhile on My Nintendo to spend my 4000+ coins on...
I've never used any candy. Had no idea what they were for. They should get rid of the annoying photo pop up that appears every time you change your clothes, "By the way....I had my photo taken when I tried on some new clothes recently..... Since this one's turned out well, I'd like to show it to my friends....." Who gives a ****? This isn't a photoshoot for a fashion magazine. **** off!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE It says on the pic above that you can now choose whether or not to receive the miifoto of the day you're able to disable it in the settings. I also found it annoying, so I'm glad they changed it.
Best miitomo update by far. I never used the candies (currently at 101) and I told my 2 friends who also play miitomo to just ignore them for obvious reason.
Glad my past advice will come in handy for them as well as myself.
When they let you furnish your apartmemt I'll pick it back up. But chances are thatll be saved for Animal Crossing mobile
@DrkBndr I don't see any option anywhere to turn them off.
YES! It still doesn't give me any reason to play, but these are some great changes,
its a pointless game I still use but simply only for My Nintendo stuff which is annoying in itself as the My Nintendo service started well but theres so little to get from it.
Glad there's a better way to cash in on those candies now. Some things I noticed while playing:
1) You apparently get one Free Play per day
2) Following plays require 5 candies per play
3) You have a 1:4 chance of winning a Ticket and a 3:4 chance of winning a Ticket Stub (10 stubs = 1 Ticket)
4) You can play as much as you want until you run out of candy or you accumulated 3 Tickets in a single day.
@DTFaux The 3 tickets in a day includes the combined Tickets and Ticket Stubs. So if you got 17 Ticket Stubs then get 2 Tickets, game over. Reverse that, getting the Tickets first, and the game will stop after 10 Stubs. At least that is why I think it stopped for me after getting only 2 Tickets.
@TechJunkie69 That sounds about right. No matter how you get it, the moment you get that 3rd Ticket, the game kicks you out for the day.
I guess it's their way of keeping folks from 'One and Done'ing their whole candy stash. But I hope the Stub count carries over to the next day (I dont see why it wouldnt).
This is great news for me. I Pretty much just play miitomo drop, but it takes a long time to accumulate coins and tickets. And since I don't know anyone who plays that candy has been useless. It should become a lot more fun now.
This has definitely increased the odds I'll be playing daily again. Tickets were insane to come by before, hopefully we'll all be able to get the items we want now.
I guess you just have to enjoy the back and forth with your friends. If not, there's not much to it, though I do like dressing up more than I probably should. Additions are great.
With the Brazilian Portuguese support, the app is now officially available in Brazil too, making Miitomo now available in exactly twenty... countries... worldwide... sigh...
It is never time to revisit Miitomo; it is also never time to use MyNintendo. Too bad they got rid of Club Nintendo for a year since they really didn't do anything majorly different. That ended up just meaning I didn't get gold coins for a year.
Something to check out...the next time the Pokemon Go servers are down.
Seems like a nice update for Miitomo. I am kinda glad that Miitomos popularity has been fading since it gives Nintendo and Dena a chance to fiqure what caused it to fade and how they can try and improve it so when the next mobile games come out, they don't go the same route.
woo no more pointless miifoto of the day!
Like 350 candy to use, WE IN THE MONEY!
These are very good changes, but there's still a lot more DeNA and Nintendo could fix and change.
Judging by what I see in the comments so far, I'm probably the only one here who's getting any kind of enjoyment out of Miitomo.
MyNintendo points aside, I get plenty of use out of MiiFoto; mostly for making hilarious memes. So I would really like to see the tools in MiiFoto get some hefty improvements.
I play Drop Mii all the time to add to my closet (since I never know what clothing I'll need for the next meme). But most Drop Mii Game Boards are too difficult. You can quickly burn thru all your tickets and come away with absolutley nothing. It's frustrating because tickets are pretty hard to replenish - even with this new Candy Drop game, which I feel has the most ridiculous Game Board of them all. So your next option is spending 500 coins per play (which is also ridiculous).
So yeah, there are still things that could be fixed/tweaked that would make me enjoy this app a lot more.
As for everyone else, well, I don't know. I see plenty of folks claiming not to like Miitomo, but few are saying why or what they would like to see changed/added to make it better.
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So now I have to play Candy Drop - to get game tickets, which I can then use to play Nintendo Drop - which is only useful to me if can get some special themed clothing like Splatoon or LoZ, otherwise it's the stupidest "game" I've ever seen.
Wouldn't it have been easier and more straigt forward to just eradicate that pointless candy from Miitomo and replace it with Game Tickets?
Why should I play this stupid meaningless game twice? I hardly play it once.
This might be nail in the coffin for Miitomo. Instead of improving it (by expanding on strengths and eradicating weaknesses) they are expanding on its weaknesses. Seriously thinking about uninstalling it...
I wonder will this ever be released properly in Europe? I guess Nintendo just doesn't care enough.
Good to see Nintendo continually tweaking the app, I would've liked to revisit the app, but it taking up 700MB - pretty much all of the spare space on my phone - is too much.
Finally, about time. Those candies were useless.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE lol. So true
Mehtomo
I like this update. The music when you play Candy Drop is pretty cool; I also like the improvements to the general UI of the app, along with some performance fixes. Definitely makes the app feel more polished as a result.
Anyway, looking forward to my free Bowser T-Shirt tomorrow (for Europe, at least).
Good update. I finally have a use for those stupid useless candies. I have over 200 of them, and I won a game ticket today too.
I actually genuinely enjoy this app. The goal was to create dialogue amongst friends and it actually has! That and the **** we post is hysterical. Especially since it's public and our little Mii's are badgering at each other!
My only complaints were candy, which is now slightly relieved, and the over all lack of things to do. It's like Miiverse, a severely limited gimped social platform. It's like if facebook wouldn't let you post anything but pictures of real people and banned everyone who posted memes and pictures of food. The fact is taht social platforms bend to the will of the users where as Nintendo is like a creativity siphon - limiting their applications until there is NOTHING that you can do outside of their original intention and vision.
That being said my other complaint is I'm not going to pay $10 for a dumb *** virtual t shirt. I'd throw down some cash if it was even remotely reasonable.
I'd love to go back to Miitomo. It's fun. I can't. The app is just so dang huge. I would delete something to make room for Miitomo and it would eat up that space too. I can't have an 600-800mb app on my smartphone, especially when Android's use of the SD card is so limited. It was much larger than the second largest app on my phone.
Finally a good use for the candy
@Dodger Miitomo only takes up 74.77 megabytes on my phone. No app even comes remotely close to being that big on my Android
Answers are an underwhelming reward for candy? Answers are the point of the app.
Candy was the way the app prevented you from just going to one person's (or a handful of people's) rooms and only listening to their answers infinitely. It motivated you to listen to random people's answers in your own room. There were already way too many people with way too many answers using the app for your answers to be seen by anyone. Taking away restrictions on just focusing on a couple of your friends and ignoring everyone is going to make it even worse.
Candy Drop is okay. It eats up candy super fast and chances are I'll end up with ticket stubs, which it takes 10 of to get ONE drop in Miitomo Drop. THAT'S a bit underwhelming. I guess I'll look up a YouTube guide if I'm ever running low on tickets or in-game money (which hasn't happened yet).
I'm just glad that today we FINALLY got some new My Nintendo rewards and a couple Miitomo Drops with prizes I want. Unless I wanted a dress or a two piece bikini, there's hasn't been a lot to get in Miitomo Drops lately.
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