I happily "paid and played" to move zynga Dream Zoo along quicker and "pretty up" my zoo. For weeks i played mostly glitch free. Deciding to save space I had stopped making purchases ("ante up"?). Thats when the annoying "changes" started to emerged... Experiencing sluggish and delayed movements, screen freeze on opening page, weird screen blips and quips, i often checked other apps and programs to make sure it wasnt my ipad. At first I thought maybe it's a coincidence, this game is too sweet and cute. However suspicion started creeping into my thoughts when I noticed that the random missing of earned zoo coins, hearts, or zoo cash was occurring more frequently. I decided to watch my little pets batting those big innocent flirty eyes a lot closer.
They sent numerous notifications along the way prompting me to "come check us out" "zoo cash on sale now" etc. Why didn't they think it was important to notify players that certain habitats were being devalued. A simple note saying "due to our dumbo creators err we are going to decrease the value of these habitat decorations". (I still don't get the reason for them feeling the need to correct their err... Its a free game, right?)
Game performance for thievery - excellent... Game performance for operation - pathetic.
It's obvious "free" game has absolved these creators from feeling remorse or shame for being so disrespectful to paying and non paying players. Due to promises and the player desire to see "whats next", slowing their game up with technical delays baits certain players into paying, how greedy. Teasing them along further with empty ended promises in order to snag a few more bucks is preying. The lack of game creativity at the final level shows the creators intentions.By the time players reach the "pay or don't play" level you realize that you've just been scammed by the big bad wolf in rainbow pajamas.
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