Talk:The Return of Whitbee's Candy Bash/@comment-26082371-20151025214926/@comment-5562408-20151027171013

I started playing around the one-year anniversary (Paper came out a couple weeks after I started) and I'll agree with other posters, the game feels a lot harder now. With how fast new dragons are coming out and the cumulative effect of new dragons during holiday periods, if I were a new player right now I'd probably quit in frustration.

I have started going for either one dragon + pedestal or two dragons + no pedestal now instead of my original goal of two + pedestal due to the frequency of limited dragons. When I wind up with extra "breeding time" I go back and try and finish off missing 2nd dragons/pedestals but my "to do" list is slowly growing.

That said, I am basically a free player. I did toss in some money on two occasions, one to get the extra island the first time it came out (Easter 2014 I think?) and the other I don't remember. That I didn't mind so much and was always able to collect everything from the holidays otherwise through play. Now though, these new events are rapidly souring my mind. During the Dragon Faire I was only able to grab one each of two themes and I think one decoration (the balloon) because I was focused on getting the dragons. Now for Whitbee's Candy Bash they're doing it again - religiously save up all your candies and maybe, just maybe, you can get the four dragons...but forget about getting ANY decorations at all unless you pay. In addition, to get all four dragons you are required to bank extra candies, whereas in prior events capping each day would be sufficient to at least get all the dragons.

Apologies for the rant-ish tone. I really enjoy Dragonvale and have recommended it to a number of family and friends over the past few years as a prime example of "free to play done right", but the direction these events are taking is making me reconsider.

Also, the constant crashing (even after the iOS 9.1 update) is REALLY, REALLY annoying. I missed cap two days so far out of this event because I crashed so much I couldn't play enough to cap.