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When you get to the second and third stages of the Tempest vs. Ursa fight, the game generates a discount on Nightmare Moon (stage 2) and Daybreaker (stage 3) to entice you to buy them.
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For the undiscounted version, I’d better get a visit from Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker in person.
Burned up… I guess.
Ah, misread it.
He’s saying when the day comes they stop updating the game.
“Once its over that’s it.”
Eh? I thought they were still updating?
But she’ll help you get Hoops!
I’m disgusted with this app at this point. I’m gonna be sad to see my pony town go, but I’m done with this.
If you want to restart your town, then there’s nothing stopping you from deleting your data (but why would you, you’ll just lose all your limited time decorations and characters).
And the in game “store” is not dependent on a server. It’s the exchange of real money for gems/bits that requires a server.
Sure, eventually you will run out of things to buy with no updates but I don’t see why that’s a big deal. It’s not like you lose everything you ever bought like PlayStation Home or other online dependent services.
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You cant even restart this game. Thats my biggest issue with these kind of games. Once its over that’s it. All thats left is for you to collect bits and gems nowhere to be spent since gameloft no longer runs the server.
While sure, they ‘might’ have only spent the $60 for the pair…. but to have as many gems remaining as they did indicates otherwise.
Gameloft only gets greedier and greedier with every update they make. They browse each episode looking for the most obscure background ponies that you see for a few seconds off in the distance of a scene, add them to the game, and put a $20 pricetag on them for no fucking reason. The majority of those ponies don’t even have a name. Like “Daring Doo Fan” or “Speedy Pony” or something equally generic relating to what they do/who they are.
It’s getting so much worse every day. . . .
In those other cases, the games required you to be online. This game doesn’t. The other stuff you said is true but I’m just saying that won’t be an issue in the future.
There are even ways you can backup your data to your computer.
Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon each cost 1000 gems. The lowest amount you can buy gems for is $1.99 for 20 gems. At that rate, each one of them is $99.50.
However, what they do for these two ponies is offer them in a “bundle”, which is instead a flat rate for them. Normally, each bundle is $29.99, which they claim is 50% off. That would mean they figure these two cost $60 each.
This is why I detest free-to-play games, ESPECIALLY ones marketed towards children. Unlike a tradition video game that’s sold in a store, there’s no limit to the profit that can be generated, especially if you can easily twist and bend numbers to make people think they’re getting a big, valuable deal, when in reality, you’re selling them an animated pony sprite for their fictional town. Anything can cost any price.
The worst part about all of this is…what happens when the game is done and over with? You can dump hundreds of dollars into this game, get all the fancy shops, ponies and decorations, and then one day Gameloft says they’re done, and it’s all gone. What then? It’s happened before with other F2Ps.
DO THOSE THINGS COST 66 DOLLARS ORIGINALLY!?