Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-5797509-20131124134454/@comment-4804333-20140218002544

I have already sent popcap a feedback letter regarding the game as it sits right now, especially on the pinata parties. I made 3 suggestions:

1. Allow some of the other challenge levels to be reintroduced into the game but make sure those levels are playable only after you beat Dr. Zomboss or something.

2. Have the option in being able to categorise the levels proper for easy access into the game.

3. remove or drastically reduce the fee to retry pinata parties.

For a lot of players playing PvZ2, having to pay 1000 coins to repeat is gonna be very stressful for them since many players are new to the game and can't really grasp the proper strategies to use in PvZ2. I personally believe that pinata parties can be used as a great learning tool to teach them how to play PvZ2 well.

If they put a fee to repeat the pinata parties, it will heavily limit their ability to learn about the game and this would dampen efforts for a player base that wants a challenge to stick to the game because they can't properly have the time or resources to learn about the game itself.

I proposed that at the very least the fee to retry should be 500  coins and then reduced by 100 coins for every successive try and it later becomes free to retry after that. That way players will have to work a bit in order to have the chance to retry the pinata parties but at least it won't be very taxing on them.

I praised the PvZ2 team for having added new ideas into the pinata parties but I warned them of going all in too soon with the difficulty and the payment for retrying. This puts off a lot of players very quickly and in general, and this is something you don't want to see happening especially in a game like PvZ2.

They should lower the difficulty level but still allow a player to retry as many times as they like but limit the amount of money they have to spend to that. As I said a limit of 1500-5000 coins could work but it has to be no more than that or else everyone would just end up giving up on the game because they can't pay more to retry something that is too hard for them.

TL;DR Pinata parties should teach new players about the game and it's strategies. Lower or remove the fee to retry parties to allow  them more room to experiment with unorthodox strategies and lower the difficulty level of the parties while they are at it. There's too many new players playing the game by the way.