Zen Garden (Watering...)
So, I feel I am missing something in the garden. I can not figure out what the point is of watering your sprouts. Yes, I know the obvious, you tap on the water drop so that it can grow. But what is ...
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For the bee, I used to watch an ad then the bee woke up. Is it still working ? Maybe it's a way to make people watching more ads ?
I am actually wondering how much EA win with this game, with and without ads.
Like just for a regular player that wants to get everything free he can get on one day, he will have to watch 3x10 ads for the daily 3 pinatas (5000 coins each), 3 ads for the gems, 2 ads for the gauntlets and 1 ad for the Pinata rematch, so 36 ads/each day to get every free contents ! That's a lot !
I am not an expert but I've seen it was around 0.1€ per click (there it seems to be much higher http://www.businessofapps.com/guide/mobile-app-advertising-cpm-rates/), so at 3.6€/day so more than 100€/month for ONE player that just watchs ads.
On an other topic, on the chinese version of the game, there are more or less 164 plants and only 4 are premium. Compare to our 115 plants with 30 premiums one.
And they also have 2 excluive brand new world (but they have less different levels for each world).
So I don't think the argument "it's normal to have some premium plants, they need to pay the developer" is totally relevant. EA already gets a lot just with ads. And there are some contents developed in the Chinese version (plants, levels) that could be implemented easily in the game.
EA is just optimizing the game and gameplay (some ridiculous difficult levels, PvP mode, quests to get seeds for a premium plants) to force players to buy or at least watch ads ☹️
I do enjoy the game but I don't like being considered as a cash cow. 😕
With all the invasive ads, my interest has wavered with the app. And as a principle, I refuse to purchase premium items. I do not feel like supporting something I know will just bite me later and encourage EA so that every month there being a new $ release...
The latest and greatest Pay-to-Win plant is here! Get your credit card ready kids! You can't win Battlz without it!
Same here. I don't mind paying for one game. I would not mind to pay for few add-on/DLC with exclusive contents.
But there are so many things to buy in this game, so many mechanichs to induce you to buy them (ads, weekly quest to get seeds for premium plants,ads, incredible difficult new levels, PvP that tempts player to buy premium plants and gems to get more gauntlets or Pinata, etc), it is just too much and I don't won't to support that 🤔- Dr zomboss, you might find the zen garden more useful on the endless quest that keep on getting harder as you progress.
Go add up how much everything in your convenient on line store would cost you with just a few taps of your finger then turn pale.
The bee is now almost useless since the last update, which is a shame because it gave some meaning to ad farming.
The ads have taken all the fun out of this game but I'm hooked now and it's too late because I've got too much time and money invested in it to Just delete it and walk away.
It's going to get far, far worse as most of my plants are at L3-L4 but as i very slowly get enough experience points to level up the cost in coinz jumps up massively and most of the pinatas i "win" are for premium plants i haven't bought.
I think eieio mentioned on another post that the only plant he has at L10 is electric blueberry and he's been playing for a long time.
The minimum number of experience points you get with each pinata is 2 and you have very little control over what they apply to, you can get pinatas for a specific world but not a specific plant.
I decided that i quite liked holly barrier so i bought it. I could have bought the plant on its own for £4.99 but i bought the bundle for £9.99 with the extra seed packets etc. But hardly any of the premium seed packets applied to plants i already have. This is the first "freemium" game i have ever downloaded and i really wish that i had been warned about the true cost of playing because if i had known then i never would have tried it.
As to being a cash cow, all i can say about that is "MOOOOOOO".
I recommend the original PVZ to my friends but tell them not to try. PVZ2.
I'm going to try and find out what it takes to max out eieio's electric blueberry and let you know.
Run awEAy!- According to fandom it costs 293,500 coinz and 4,385 seed packets to take electric blueberry to level 10.
This is just one plant.
