"WHAT THE [Insert suitable word] !!!"
I have just played a Battlez match which left me staring in shock at the results screen and thinking “WHAT THE [Insert suitable word] !!!! How in the hell did they do THAT??” My plants were – The...
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As I recall it was around 8,000 gems. I spent a fair few during the first weeks of Battlez while moving up from Soil League to Silver in consecutive weeks, but not retaining my reward streak each time I lost a match. (BIG mistake in hindsight)
Unfortunately I didn't claim all the gems made available over the couple of years. If I'd known about Battlez coming on the scene I'd have done it every day and could have had twice as many. I could also have had still more if I hadn't spent some on Premium plants for gems offers and a few purchases when they were cycling the double value seed packet offers between the various worlds.
Regarding dropping a league. I'm not bothered if I do drop back to Silver. I wouldn't even worry over dropping to Bronze. I don't purchase seed packets for gems, so the league I'm in is of little importance to me. (Other than not wanting to end up in Jade because of the 'suspect' opponents/bots I've heard are, or were infesting it.
What IS important to me now is maintaining my reward streak because of the escalating value of the rewards, and it enabling me to upgrade my plants far quicker.
The reason nobody seems to like this week's tournament is down to the stupid plant of the week. EA have made a few poor choices over the weeks, but this has to be the worst yet.
If I didn't know better I might almost think that EA are trying to discourage people from playing by making it as unenjoyable as possible for the vast majority of players. As I see it, it's only the players with maxed out plants, or those using questionable methods who ARE doing well.
I remember those falling gems days too. That was back before the executive team at EA graduated with honors on a course run by the Ebeneezer Scrooge College and did away with such benefits. I believe the course may have been named, "Advanced techniques for robbing your client base blind without resorting to using a gun." I also believe it's possible that the principal course lecturer was a direct bloodline descendent of Frank and Jesse James. 👿
My gaming background goes way back to when my first computer was a zx spectrum with a rubber keyboard and i had to buy magazines to copy programs from unless you were fancy and could afford a cassette tape deck.
Through the ages i became a consumer and bought better stuff like the commodore 64 (with 5 1/2" floppy drive),various ataris and my first real pc, a 486dx2 66.
Back then DOOM came on 6 floppy discs and i beheld the future in the guise of the cd rom drive (single speed) and soundcards.
I have bought and played many games over the decades and this is my first foray into online gaming and also my first experience of a freemium game.
It will also be my last.
I like talking to other players through the forums but the constant farming of ads is driving me insane.
Battlez is great but the cost in time, real money, gems and coins is just too much for me.
It's taken me nearly 2 weeks to get lightning reed (underrated) to level 5
and thats just 1 plant!
Most of my plants are between 3-4 and i do the daily quests and the pinata parties and they stopped being fun a long while back.
For a newbie i think I've done pretty well so far and i just don't see myself spending most of my freetime farming ads.
In real money I've spent around £50, a few useful items and premium plants and a couple of gem purchases to buy gauntlets.
The whole thing is designed by very clever people to suck you in, get you hooked and bleed you dry.
This is only my opinion and you may think differently but i still have fun playing the original PVZ.
Fun has gone.
Bye Bye fun.
Through the ages i became a consumer and bought better stuff like the commodore 64 (with 5 1/2" floppy drive),various ataris and my first real pc, a 486dx2 66.
Back then DOOM came on 6 floppy discs and i beheld the future in the guise of the cd rom drive (single speed) and soundcards.
I have bought and played many games over the decades and this is my first foray into online gaming and also my first experience of a freemium game.
It will also be my last.
I like talking to other players through the forums but the constant farming of ads is driving me insane.
Battlez is great but the cost in time, real money, gems and coins is just too much for me.
It's taken me nearly 2 weeks to get lightning reed (underrated) to level 5
and thats just 1 plant!
Most of my plants are between 3-4 and i do the daily quests and the pinata parties and they stopped being fun a long while back.
For a newbie i think I've done pretty well so far and i just don't see myself spending most of my freetime farming ads.
In real money I've spent around £50, a few useful items and premium plants and a couple of gem purchases to buy gauntlets.
The whole thing is designed by very clever people to suck you in, get you hooked and bleed you dry.
This is only my opinion and you may think differently but i still have fun playing the original PVZ.
Fun has gone.
Bye Bye fun.
