Re: leveling up?

I think they did it on purpose and hoped no one would figure it out.  Next week they will probably just ban caulipower again for battlez.  They shouldn't be able to do that either since it's a premium plant but they seem to do whatever they want with no regard for the players.  They are eventually going to just alienate everyone who has been playing for a long time and just keep the new ones who will spend money on gems to buy stuff.  Maybe that's the plan

It gets worse.If you buy a premium plant for actual money then if you've been playing for a few months then you probably have accumulated enough seed packets to immediately level up your shiny new plant but you still have to pay for the upgrades with coins (bought from the shop or from watching ads).

And watching ads is making money for EA.
I read it was around 0.1 $ per ad (well I may be wrong).
It's not a lot.

But watching 3 ads for "free" gems, 4 for "free" gauntlets and one for Pinata and you already have almost 1$/player/day.
If you add the 3 daily pack of seed, it's 3+4+1+3*5*2 = 38 ads/day so almost 4$/day.

Then think about all the time you needed coins in the game:
All the coins you had to watch to upgrades some plants.
All the coins you wasted in some really hard level (WW35 😢)
And most of thoses coins came from watching ads.

So yes, just with the ads and their sneaky mechanics that force you to watch them, EA is probably already doing a looot of cash.

Few weeks ago, I made a list of all the mechanics that was here to force the players to watch ads or spend coins.
I got more than 30 I think . With their so called "magnet-shroom" and "Cauli" ban I guess I could add some.
If they release shadow peashoter next week, I would not be surprised that they ban Cauli.

WW35 was driving me crazy too.  Finally I decided that I had to level up two key plants one of which was Hypno-shroom and then I was able to survive using very few coins !!

My plants are not MAX level

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@lawmfw wrote:

WW35 was driving me crazy too.  Finally I decided that I had to level up two key plants one of which was Hypno-shroom and then I was able to survive using very few coins !!

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Hypno-shroom is not one of those plants that really need to be upgraded to be effective. A plantfood dropped onto it will turn whatever zombie touching it into a gargantuar on your side whatever level it is. Glad you finished him off.

Thanks for the table.

I was in error as I meant level up from the Zen Garden.  First Strike upgrade was what I meant to say.