Talk:Pearl Dragon/@comment-211.31.16.251-20120603104828/@comment-4775325-20120603112627

While I personally wouldn't spend real world money in order to buy a dragon (I think that breeding a dragon yourself is the main fun/challenge of DragonVale), I don't find anything wrong with people spending the gems they get in game or from whatever level of in-app purchases is reasonable for them on speeding the process. Gems are there to be spent afterall and getting the Gemstone dragons is more about collecting every dragon than it is about the actual gems they earn (although free gems is never a bad thing).

Is DragonVale a fad? Probably, just like almost every game/book/movie/tv series etc ever has been. How long it lasts is entirely up to Backflip and they'll decide based on how long the popularity is maintained. But with app games like Angry Birds still going strong 3 years later there's no reason that DragonVale couldn't do the same.

As for spending money on a game being a waste, when you get right down to it spending money on anything that for enjoyment alone could be considered wasteful (movies, television, games, interesting food and drink beyond what you need in your diet, brand name items etc. etc.). So if people can afford to spend the money on a game like this I have no problem with it, especially since DragonVale can be enjoyed for much longer than a single movie or a meal at a restaurant.