The WHY no longer matters to me, they did it and that is all that matters.Originally Posted by filochick1982
The WHY no longer matters to me, they did it and that is all that matters.
For me a good business model ensures the basic premise can be achieved freely, in this case baking. The money earner is the gem sales for decor where players are happy to invest with pride for unusual or rare items to personlise their space.
My problem is that it is no longer possible to bake without losing money so I am not inclined to either visit my bakery or decorate it. I have thoroughly tested this as a level 97 player and have stopped baking as a result. If I'm not baking then I have little need to open the app and no need to take a pride in decorating thus I am NOT spending real money on gems any longer.
This cannot be working for TL in the long run as more people realise the reality as I have.
Everyone who entered into playing this game downloaded it because it was Free!
We are all on here because a game we love to play however we love to play it has been dramatically changed by its makers to become unplayable to us all
The bakery game which we currently have means everyone will end up bankrupt as there is not enough profit to be made to plough back into the business to continue just baking on a daily basis!
This is the reason we all play on a daily basis to bake! we put food on we return time and time again!
To change that alters the backbone of the game
This changed earlier in the year with the reduction of portion sizes and dramatically effected the backbone of the game people stopped pkaying and TL reverted the portion sizes back!
Now I realise big bosses want people to buy more gems to increase their productivity by extending the longativity of the game will undoubtly extend the period of time for players purchase more gems!
However not by doubling prices of the food! all you have done is stop people playing the game and will continue to do so on a daily basis!
Time for some serious reflection on your drastic action!
Well here is some to start you off:-
I'm not baking anything as the profit dosent cover cover my costs to be able to bake again!
so im not calling in my bakery throughout the day to take off and put on food to keep my customers happy!
My customers have decreased so I'm not selling my food very quickly so I'm not calling in my bakery so often!
Result of the above two im not loging in so im been tempted to buy gems eithe!
Your loss TL
TL does make money off of players who don't buy gems. So do all free web apps such as Words with Friends, or, for example, the random Solitaire app that I downloaded. They make it through in-game advertising. I imagine that TL's is a bit more odd, especially since they stopped splashing the full screen with ads, and they only advertise Storm 8 games, but they do make money off of in-game advertising. There's a reason that stupid cat from Bubble Mania has been hanging around for so long.
So while they may not make as much money off of players who don't make in-game purchases, they do make money. Let's stop fighting, guys, we're all on the same side :-) Let's get back to why PonyRoar decided to ignore the great questions that were asked and instead direct us to an existing bug thread.
Re the in-game advertising, I doubt they make money from that considering they only advertise their own games. If they were advertising products/games from third parties, then yes, they would make money.
As if they don't make money from that! Every download they get makes money for them.
How does that make money for them exactly? If most players who download new games refuse to buy anything within the game?
You're making assumptions that most don't buy anything. We have NO idea how many users that don't come to the boards are buying gem packages. We are a very small portion of the user base and even though many here aren't buying gems, there are still quite a lot that ARE. If that is what we see in just this small portion of players, then...............................
look it up if you don't understand it.
Since Fridays update sales are even slower.I have tons of food on my.
counters but only selling 40,000 a night will not get me anywhere in this game.Sorry but trying the tactic of pushing everyone into buying gem won't work.This is a free game!!!!!
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