Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Wiki Discussion/@comment-4009269-20140213201430/@comment-7234182-20140724161012

TheGollddMAN wrote:

Milesprower2 wrote:

Despite the free prem plants, it's designed as a pay-to-win game, meaning that if you don't spend any real money, it'll be near-impossible to beat 100%. While I agree to most of your points, this is wrong.

The Chinese version basically has the stars that the international version left out and that's where the challenges lie in.

However, it's not pay-to-win. I'm currently 100% in all worlds except for Far Future and so far I haven't paid a single dime (and even if I wanted to, I can't cause my shop doesn't work). So, I have to rely on my skills.

Also, as far as I know, I will be able to get 100% in FF too without wasting any of my grinded gems. Pay-to-win is usually attached to the notion that you can win without paying... provided that you spend a lot of time on it, but most of this can be bypassed by spending money instead. There was an energy system in Kung-Fu World (now thankfully scrapped) that had the sole purpose of making you either spend gems or wait ten minutes in order to play a level. It was probably the most egregious example of a pointless feature designed solely to make you spend money.

The Chinese version is easily an order of magnitude more difficult than the International one... That's not to say I don't like challenges. I do. I just don't like them when they are unfairly difficult to coerce you into spending money.,, Like King's Saga games. The Chinese version is on that level of money-grubbing. By the way, how is that lottery working out for you now? I guarantee you won't get all the plants from it without paying. You could try the free lottery non-stop for about a year and you still wouldn't get all the plants.

You are clearly in the minority on this if you look at what the Chinese say in social media and the App Stores, which I linked to above and you conveniently ignored. I'd say 99% of the people who played both versions will prefer the International one.