Talk:Gemstone Island/@comment-180.242.190.34-20120527085517/@comment-4775325-20120529225034

Some people do spend hundreds of dollars on DragonVale, it is there choice. Others have achieved level 30 and all the dragons without spending any. I choose to make a purchase of a $2 pile of gems monthly not because I need them but because I enjoy the game and want to thank Backflip for it.

Do Backflip make a lot of money of DragonVale? Yes, but they are a business with costs to meet such as wages, the offices, the computing equipment etc. and as well as supporting DragonVale they also need money in order to work on developing new games. If DragonVale stops being profitable for them Backflip will stop supporting it with regular updates for new content and bug fixing.

Also I wouldn't call DragonVale a clone of Farmville, yes they are both resource collection sims but DragonVale adds a lot of new and different elements to the concept with it's magical medieval themepark setting and dragon breeding. Farmville is if anything more of a clone since it rips off Farm Town. But really there have been resource collection sims for ages before that with games such as Harvest Moon all the way back in the 90's on the super nintendo so nothing is entirely original.