Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Wiki Discussion/@comment-4009269-20140213201430/@comment-24275721-20140724045009

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.

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.

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

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