Talk:Game Updates/@comment-5309382-20140924011706/@comment-6613158-20140924110707

There is a comment on the Island Themes  page by Dlcrccj which I really like. (S)he compares the Island Themes to levelling Dragons up to 20. Something anyone can accomplish without any IAP, but it will take time. Years. These Themes are another thing anyone can accomplish without IAP’s. Per complete set you need 2,500 Gems (no discount). It’s possible to collect almost 100 Gems per week (35 Colosseum, 42 Friends, 20 Gem Island, 2 Magic Egg Habitat). Which comes to about six months per set. Seems not too difficult compared to the levelling up to 20…

The nice thing is that BackFlip continues to provide us with goals, irrespective of whether we are new at this game (remember your first Rainbow?, now I try to avoid them as fails…), or have been playing for three years. Of course you can buy a shortcut. But is BackFlip to blame for this? Not in my world…

And I doubt very much that the amount of Gems per Theme will drop. How would I feel if I had saved my Gems for six months – never having purchased a single Gem at all, spent 1,950 of them to buy the Pack because I really, really, really liked these Skins, only to return to the game a few weeks from today to learn that the same Pack is now on sale for 250 Gems?