You were afraid or annoyed of your opponent playing a Cauli spam strategy ?Well, beware of this plant, which will likely be premium, that may be the most powerful and broken plant ever released by EA.Some guy did hacked and data mined the game and found the Shadow peashooter.It belongs to the shadow plant family (duh) and it is some kind of mix between Laser bean and Grimrose and Stallia when boosted for only 125 suns. Yes you read it right.Unless other peashoter it shoots a laser which can touch multiple zombie down a lane, it also slows down zombies for a bit and if a zombie is getting too closed, it acts as a grimrose.And plant food effect seems to make an explosion that kills (all?) zombies on the boards.Of course, things can change (like probably the sun cost) but it definitly looks like a broken planthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=159&v=3ATFsLDeG2oAnd see at level 10:https://youtu.be/R0DWs3B2zS8?t=8m13s

Ive paid a lot in gems to get this plant and get it level 4 and it is a good plant. But what angers me is that it is another cash cow because you have to keep spending 25 gems just for 10 seed packets. EA promised there would be seed packets in Piñatas during battle mode but, despite having won a dozen or more modern day piñatas in battle mode there has not been 1 lousy pack of seeds. The same is true of the everyday piñatas in non battle mode, although I’ve managed to get about 9 this way in The last few days having focused on 6 modern day piñatas a day. It is clear that players are going to want this plant and to level up. But the only route to that is buying these darnn gems for 10 seed packets per 25 gems. To go up to level 5 now means that you would need 250 gems costing £19.99, and after that you are looking at £80 for level 6 and £160 for level 7. Thus is, without doubt, the most expensive plant in the game and not, I hope, a sign of things to come from ea. They have made a fortune from battleZ and progress seems to be rigged so that when you get to level 6 or 7 your normal strategy inexplicably fails and your score halves. They hope they can trap people into paying loads of gems to retain their winning streak, but from this point in you are in a trap that ends up costing g a lot of gems. The battles themselves cost 50p each and an average contest is £40-50 over the week. But this is not enough money for them. So obviously inspired by the likes of fortnite, ea thinks they can just keep on abusing people’s love for and loyalty to this game. Come on ea, do you have to be so greedy??? You make enough off us already but you just don’t stop pushing and pushing until you find the breaking point at which people will reject this game. But you’ve taken care of that too because it’s hard to ditch a game that you have put so much time effort.and money into

AllThis has been confirmed by EA's support member, Haemophilus_EA, the seed packets are removed from Battlez.https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/9fo22o/shadow_peashooter_packets_removed_from_md_pinata/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/9d47il/ea_has_secretly_nerfed_caulipowers_scoring_so/YepThey did that.EA have really 0 moral.They are not developing the game considering what can be good for the players.But how they can get more cash with cash features and ads, all over again.It is not because you are an enterprise and need to make profit that you have to spit on your customers' face.King Cauli is dead, long live King Shadow Peashooter !

@lawmfw@TempJmagGuys, don't waste any more of your gems. You won't get ANY seed packets for the Shadow Peashooter in the 'Seed Packets for 100 Gems' shop. If you tap the information tag at the top right of the Modern Day mini window, you'll see that only the regular plants are included. - Moonflower - Dusk Lobber - Shadow Shroom - Grimrose - Nightshade.

AllFor those of you who wish to 'buy' the new shady plant, you can only get it from the Shadow Peashooter Pinata and NOT the Morden Day Pinata.This plant, if purchased this way would actualy be the most expensive plant to date!The plant requires 250 seeds to unlock, we get 50 seeds given (as a bait?) by completing a quest so the remaining 200 seeds can be purchased. 25 gems guarantee you 10 seeds, thus 250 gemns for 100 and 500 gems for 200 seeds. We would get some seeds ‘free’ from various daily quests but you will need to spend them on level ups.As this offer is for a limited time and EA is not likely to tell us when it will be back once it is ended, so my recommendation is if you have 500 gems spare, then buy this plants now and any seeds gained by completing quests can be used for leveling up.

Shadow-peashooter: The new EA cash cow ?

47 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
There is a plant missing in the shadow family, so I don't think this is going to be a cash-cow item, assuming it's not a joke?
Cali-Power still beats this... it beats everything actually.
BBnot8
8 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/9d47il/ea_has_secretly_nerfed_caulipowers_scoring_so/

Yep
They did that.
EA have really 0 moral.
They are not developing the game considering what can be good for the players.
But how they can get more cash with cash features and ads, all over again.
It is not because you are an enterprise and need to make profit that you have to spit on your customers' face.

King Cauli is dead, long live King Shadow Peashooter !
BBnot8
8 years ago
It's official, shadow peashooter will be release tomorrow !
Seeing how powerful it is I bet it will be premium, but W&S !

Just to sum up: A mix between Laser bean and Grimrose and Stallia when boosted + an exploding plant food effect.
Just or only 125 suns (and probably a bit of cash $$)
eieio_31310
Hero
8 years ago
According to the news, it can be unlocked by collecting 250 seed packets..
So we will all be busy for the next few weeks..... 👿
BBnot8
8 years ago
I guess we will have seeds in Batllez also
Humplemann
8 years ago
@eieio_31310 wrote:
According to the news, it can be unlocked by collecting 250 seed packets..
So we will all be busy for the next few weeks..... 👿
I've just seen on Reddit that those 250 seed packets literally only unlock the plant. When you do the unlock, all those seed packets disappear into thin air and all you get in return for all your time and effort is a level one plant.
Of course we COULD buy the seed packets, for a mere 25 gems in return for just 10 seed packets. I for one won't be making any particular efforts to get the plant by going down that route. If it had been 25 seed packets for 10 gems I may have given it some consideration.
@BBnot8
Your subject heading referred to the Shadow Peashooter possibly being the most powerful plant ever. I don't know about that, but it's potentially the most expensive if you can't accrue sufficient seed packets and need to use some gems.
BBnot8
8 years ago
Lmao
Well I was surprised it was not a premium, but somehow they made a way to get money out of it.
I guess it will be premium in 2 weeks anyways.
But since you can get 25 ""free"" per day + the 50 seeds from the quests you can have it for free in 8 days or less.
Anonymous
8 years ago
How exactly do you get 25 FREE per day?
eieio_31310
Hero
8 years ago
@BBnot8 wrote: .....
......you can get 25 ""free"" per day + the 50 seeds from the quests you can have it for free in 8 days or less.
I guess you mean 25 gems free to buy the seeds, if this was the case then it is only 10 seeds per day, so one would need to spend more to get the plant with in the time limit, hmm, more battlez.....
lawmfw
8 years ago
There are only 16 FREE Gems per day (well ,you do have to earn them by playing).
That is, for those players who can play Pinata Party of course !!
My clock still has 11 days to go and then I can only hope it begins again at 24 Hours.