Talk:Game Updates/@comment-71.129.176.33-20120214151504/@comment-4775325-20120215030959

@Granky: Gems cost nothing to Backflip to give out BUT if they are given out for free then many people who would have paid money to buy gems wouldn't do so. If Backflip gave out 100 gems to each player account (over 4,000,000) it's like giving everyone a free Dragonsai Gem Tree or an almost free Epic Breeding Island and it means that even if only 1% of people would have purchased the gems to buy the DGT/EBI they no longer have to and 1% of 4,000,000 is 40,000 accounts and if we multiply that by $4 that's $160,000. That is what Backflip would lose by giving out free gems.

Seriously BACKFLIP IS A COMPANY they have staff(design, support and management) and equipment(an office and computers) that they need to pay for. That stuff is not cheap so asking them to throw away potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars possible profit just because you are too impatient to save up gems in-game and/or too cheap to pay a couple of dollars to purchase them is ludicrous and very very childish.