Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Wiki Discussion/@comment-4009269-20140213201430/@comment-7234182-20140724052019

TheGollddMAN wrote: 1Zulu wrote: You must be kidding. The Chinese version is full of "features" designed to force the player to spend money on gems (which can only be obtained by paying real money - there is a very limited amount of free gems in the game). Many plants can only be obtained through the lottery system.

The International version can be easily completed without paying a single cent. This is much more difficult to do in the Chinese version. You have to do a lot more grinding if you don't want to spend real money, and some levels are still very difficult to beat without spending gems. What you've written is just the opposite. In OUR version, we can't get premium plants for free while we can in the Chinese version. Sure it is riddled with IAPs, but each of one of those riddles has an altenative except for Cherry Bomb.

'''The star plants are obtainable through a lot of grinding... But the lottery plants? They are close to impossible to get (more on that later). The puzzle piece plants are also a waste of time. You either grind endlessly to get them, or (if you have the iOS version), pay up with gems to get them from the cards. That's another thing, the cards cheat. 95% of the time it gives me 100 coins (useless), and then it "reveals" the other better prizes... For which you need to spend 20 gems.'''

On the other hand, the English version has more IAPs which can't be bypassed and I HAVE NOT SPENT A SINGLE GEM FOR BEATING ANY LEVEL and have obtained all stars in all worlds except for Far Future. It is definitely doable.

'''I never said it wasn't doable. Just that it was much more difficult and would require a lot of grinding, and a lot of trial and error.'''

The lottery system is much more lenient than you think. I got Pea Pod, Coconut Cannon and Threepeater from them in about two days.

'''That's what the game wants you to think. In reality, it gets progressively worse as you get more plants. Because guess what? The lottery will give you plants that you already have (in which case instead of getting a plant you'll get plant pieces). The more plants you have, the lower the are chances that you will get a new plant. There's a point where you virtually get no new plants from the lottery system. I have probably sunk close to 30000 '(hacked)' gems on it, and I am still missing four or five plants.'''

If you wanna make an argument at least try to be accurate, will ya?

'''I believe it is fairly accurate based on playing both versions. ''' With the Chinese version you can either sink a lot of time on it and (hopefully) get everything eventually... Or you can pay. They want you to pay.

This isn't just the way I see. Have you seen the reviews written by Chinese folks on the App Store and Play Store? They too think the game is unfair and is designed to extract IAPs from players. Go on Baidu's tieba and see what people who have played both versions have to say. It's not pretty. The criticism is valid.