Talk:Shrines/@comment-86.172.185.107-20130226180033

Dragonvale is DEAD - Finished! For me anyway. I have played for over a year. I used to buy gems two or three times a months for gemstone dragons. I have hatched every single dragon they have released in over a year. I had 4 gold shrines I had meticulously bought food for, hatching and selling dragons to raise money for food. Now I am just going through the motions and for the first tme in a year I didn't even bother buying any gems for the Rose Dragon which I didn't hatch and I really don't care because we know it'll be back somewhen. It's not the end of the world like old gemstone dragons used to be. Making the shrines worth minimal gems is the most damaging thing Backflip could have done to DV. It has just destroyed my motivation and belief in the game AND the company (I had previously completed Army of Darkness twice on iPhone and iPad). I wasn't best pleased when all the dragons became available over Xmas as that ruined any chances I had of showing I was a long time player by making the rare early dragons available. However, at least I could get a couple of the older gemstone dragons I missed in the early days and I decided I would focus on collecting eggs for display as well but now, I just have no interest. Backflip, I hope you read this. I would consider myself and my family hardcore players and I was most certainly loyal to your company (AoD twice and DV lv 40 + 4 gold shrines). We played this as a family. When I was at work my wife would be breeding and hatching. All the while our daughter would collect money and get excited by new dragons. We were a constant supply of buying gems, sometimes quite adictively. However, you've single handedly destroyed anything we had left for DV. I estimated we had at least a couple of months to keep hatching and selling and buying food to finish our shrines off. Now I can just buy 20 or 30 gems and finish the game which as such just destroys everything we put into this game and that is proven by the fact we have purchased no gems since the shrines changed and we don't plan on doing so anymore. DV was all about patience and planning for serious players and you just took that away whilst sticking two fingers up at our hardwork and loyalty in favour of getting people to buy a few gems here and there to upgrade shrines. THEREFORE You can take your constant stream of average dragons and money grabbing tactics and stick 'em where only the moon dragon shines ;)