Talk:Pearl Dragon/@comment-203.143.159.19-20120604103455/@comment-4775325-20120604113449

I'm not sure what you mean about the LYD's few days of availability being too short to get people to buy gems. People did buy gems and insane amounts of them exactly because they knew that the LYD was only around for a few days. However it did make a lot of people very angry with people still complaining about it even now and that seems to have made Backflip rethink super short term limited dragons as a strategy and return to a 2 week minimum for limited dragons (the same amount of time that we had to breed an Emerald).

No one is forcing people to pay for gems and lots of people have been successful at breed the Gemstone dragons without buying any gems. And while yes Backflip designs dragons etc. aiming to make money, they also design them in order to make the game challenging and fun. Emerald and Pearl may be annoyingly difficult to get but trying to get them is an enjoyable challenge and when you do succeed you get a great feeling of triumph. So while I might wish that they were a bit easier I would hate to see them be too much easier because it would kill all the challenge.

Backflip also seems to have learnt from the Emerald dragon and the combo for the Pearl dragon is much better - only Rainbow as a rare possibility, average breeding time of only 8hrs, dragons which earn you decent xp and coin if sold etc. And we have the entire month to breed it.