about fashion story , about restaurant story, bakery , dragons and GEMS

[ostrao]

First I started to play BS ..my 6 years old son liked picture and he installed but it happened that this is more for me .. and then at one moment i discovered you have to have GEMS to accomplish some good play and my device doesnt support that purchuse . SO I found out there is a way to get some small amount of gems through playing and of course i installed all other games and liked those games ..and i ejoy playing , of course ..but it would be fair to teamlava put some sign ..NOT free . Becouse it is not. I feel descriminated through playing..i know ppl from teamlava have to earn their money ..but why even allow us, without money , to play.... if that fight is not equal for all players ..that is only a game you may say ..NO, , that is very cruel and that is life and kids are playing and crying when they dont have gold to buy coins for habbitats ..for example my son was very sad when i sold gemston dragon ..habbitat was 2 million ..you dont give equal opportunites to all player ..and that is your right , you are earning money , i understand that is the point of all this virtual sharade ..but you have to warn people on the fornt page : You are playing this game at your own risk. You will feel neglected as a second hand player and discriminated becouse you dont play with money ..but that will be also very educational game, becouse that is how life works after all, it will help you to prepare yourself .

[igames4me]

The game is free and with enought patience you can get a pretty store without buying gems

On this acct I don't think I've purchased gems only gold twice on dragon story but still have a lot of decor

[ostrao]

Yes it is free ..like in life you can survive ..i am even at 99th level at RS butthat is only surviving ..similar to life ..ppl can live without any luxury they will live ..but if they are smart they will be aware that better possibilities ..i told you that these games are educational ..learn ppl that you can collect gems for one beautifull decorations , to try , but if you if you want to have all matched and dozen for full effect you have to be born that way with $$$

[nky1111]

u need money only if u want to get all limited time offers, everything else just takes time to get. may be not very fun for kids because of its slow progress.

[ostrao]

And i agree it is good even to kids ..not to be naive ..sooner you understand life it would be lees complicated ..either you try very hard for little ( for one gem) either you have reach aunt and it is easier

[blycouture]

its true that if you put in real money to play,you could level up faster and buy a lot of nice "cash" items,but after several game closure on facebook,i swear i would not spend real cash on anymore online games! Because most of them ended up closing! All hard work efforts and real cash would be gone as those companies removed the games. So now on,i would not buy with real cash anymore,we never know how long the game would last and moreover my gems here keep disappearing,it would eventually be gone even if i purchase them.

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[twospoons]

actually, the game does say that you can make in-app purchases with real money in the description. at least, in the google play store, i'm not on IOS. and yes, some people have money they choose to spend in the game, and that does make it easier to get things, but it's not like you can't get things as a non-spender. there's nothing offered only to people who've bought gems. you say you feel like a second class player, but i don't feel that special just because i have bought gems (and for the record, i earn my money, i wasn't born with it, although i am lucky enough to be employed).

so you have to be a little more careful with your spending, so what? plenty of other players have managed, and frankly, the game is a lot more fair than life that way. at least you can earn gems, even if slowly, for doing nothing but playing. and if you can't afford to buy 30 tables at 3 gems each, figure out how to place just a couple or a few to good effect. creativity goes a long way in having a beautiful restaurant/bakery/boutique.

[Avenuez]

I play without buying gems. And I like my restaurant and bakery :) They're still small (lvl 30 & 31) But I like how they look with buying coins deco's :)

[chewytwix]

For me it took a lot of patience to have the decor I've wanted (and a lot of self control with tapping). I haven't spent any money on 2/3 games I played ever. I've only purchased gems once around the holidays, but that's good considering I've played for 3.5 years. I'm happy with what I have, and like you I'm not loaded. I started playing during my senior year in college (paid full tuition for a private college) so I couldn't throw around money for this kind of stuff.

If you earn gems by cooking, download games, play through the goals, you will have plenty of good decor. I think TL made some good steps in the right direction overall (minus the price hike, ahem), but sure there are still other areas of improvement.

[ostrao]

It is not not just RS. This game I like most just becouse of that..you can earn the gems and that difference is less visible then i , pet shop, fashion ..in those games there are goals which include spending gems ..but fact is :
someone has to work hard to earn 1 gem, to work even harder to collect 4 to buy 1fancy table.
Someone can spend real money , not many times , for example , just once , open 26 slots and then earn gems just like us who play for free and much faster , one round of cooking 1 gem ..but that is only my responsibility i should quit those games first time when i push the button and red:"Your device doesn't support purchusing gems"
ps : even if i cook day and nighti coudn't open 26 slots ..there no so many recepies

[betita_elfica]

I think this is the strategy from teamlava, the games are free but they need benefits for their products, so they can get it from gems. The gems system is likely more other games or real business, for example some months ago i read a paper about a famous CASINO strategy. They discovered that if they put platinum and gold members options, the human always want to be diferent from the rest and want to get it. So this is the same, teamlava puts exclusive items that only some people purchashed and they will be diferent from the rest. And some items are limted time because you will be more exclusive!

I also have in my restaurant some exclusive items from boxes because i wanted to be diferent and have special items that that you don't have, now i don't want to get anymore because i have all machines items.