Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34634711-20170414184025/@comment-28829111-20170416031739

weighing in here... I def think players can play without spending money but 2 of my children are programmers (not for games). Both my husband and I worked in the tech industry as well. I do feel that when I find an application I really use and it gets updated regularly that I want to support the company. Many of my kids friends' have grown up in the "free-ware" era where they believe everything SHOULD be free. I personally disagree. SN is a good example. It is one of the very few games I really enjoy and spend my free time playing. I have an entertainment budget for each month (includes things like eating out and movies, etc..). In the beginning I didn't buy anything from Mytona because I wanted to see if I liked it first. Then after a few months I did buy some rubies - not sure what at the time. It was not tools, though. When I got friends they helped even more. When the Treasury update came I stopped supporting them for months watching to see the changes to the game. In Dec I decided it was improving enough that I thought I wanted to support Mytona again. These companies can't generate products for nothing so some players have to pay the toll or they can't stay in business. I'm sure Mytona makes a mint off of Secret Society, though. I am not saying anyone should feel obligated to pay at all...it is a personal decision. My one son hates the notion of any in-app purchases. He thinks games should be sold for one price initially and that's that. I guess maybe he feels one might have to pay an upgrade fee but I'm not sure. He cannot stand any sort of ad pushing product.

Like others I can't see how one needs the runes, flowers and bottles either. But maybe some are running old games and need them for crafting?

This comment I find VERY interesting (from an unidentified visitor) " (after lever 50, it gets fairly easy to never run out of the special tools)." I wonder if this is true for all. Most of my friends need either energy, pieces of a chicken, or a tool CI to finish a set. So there may be a need from some.

Also, this comment from the same visitor "   (don't forget that you don't need to have real life friends that play the game to add friends to your list, just invite some randomly through the application!)  " doesn't jive with me personally. I prefer real people to the "mill of zombies hired by tech companies to run "empty" account"." It is def a personal thing. I don't like the gazillion fake SN accounts created to generate specific fixers, etc... I'll take a real player who is willing to chat with me about the game any day. It also is more rewarding for me to know I am feeding a real person a CI they need (I have no problem with real players running multiple accounts either but secretly hope they help others MORE than they self-feed).

So my viewpoint is to support the company so they can enhance the game and keep it a viable piece of their business AND to have as many in life real players at possible. If anyone on my friend list feels they have an abundance of tools after level 50 and do not need my set support please feel free to message me on my wall or via in game username. Happy to not deluge a player with too many eyeglasses, purple lightning or flying time.