Talk:Game Updates/@comment-4863819-20120224080130/@comment-4775325-20120224093416

The EBI will almost certainly NEVER be available for purchase by any non-gem means. The simple fact is that Backflip Studios is a company, it makes its money from in-app purchases of gems and one of the major reasons people make these purchases is in order to buy an EBI.

Costing 10,000,000 in dragoncash (or more) only helps 1 group of people the higher end players (since they can easily afford it), the lower end players (particularly those with park levels lower than 20) can't afford it that easily and Backflip will loose a large amount of money. Compared to other freemium games Backflip is incredibly generous, we have the ability to earn up to 8 (11 with Dragonsai Gem Tree) gems daily from the colosseum and gem for gem gifting with friends.

So in terms of the EBI people have 3 options: 1. Make an in-app purchase of gems and buy it straight away, 2. Save up your daily in-app gems and buy it in a month or so or 3. Don't buy it, the EBI is nice but it's not actually vital in order to play the game.