Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25089892-20160831212144/@comment-24203813-20160908190738

TheGollddMAN wrote: Dekagamer7X9 wrote: A couple days ago a dev at Popcap (can't remember his name at this time) made a tweet asking what fans would want if PvZ 3 ever happened. And from what I saw in the majority of replies, most people want:

-It to be on multiple consoles

-A lot less premium content

-For the game not to have a freemium gameplay style. Since I don't use boosts or powerups, I can confirm that other than too many premium plants, this game doesn't have a freemium gameplay style. In some cases using different plants solves the problem but most of the time the solution lies in a premium plant so that's something.

You know how to solve this problem? Not "balance" the free plants too much. Since some plants cost money (Most games in this day and age are freemium so there's no use crying over that. There will always be premiums.), obviously they should be stronger but do not make the free ones that weak compared to them. The biggest offenders are:

1. Pepper-pult: If you don't have FPS, WW or CSD (which are all premium in a way), you are screwed in IBBG. That seed packet recharge sucks monkey butt and this plant is not enough alone to be a primary offense.

2. Gold Leaf and Thyme Warp: I have said it numerous times and I'll say it forever. There is no need for these plants to be world exclusives. Alright, let me explain what I (and I think those on Twitter) mean by not wanting PvZ 3 to be freemium: We mean that we want it to be like the first game. You know, where you payed money to purchase it, and there were no in-game purchases that cost real money. You could unlock everything in the game without paying (aside from paying for the game itself initially). Freemium doesn't necessarily mean pay-to-win (which PvZ 2 isn't). Freemium means the game is free but a large portion of its content is locked behind a paywall. Look at how many premium plants there are. I believe there are 29 if you count unreleased ones and don't count gemiums. And those aren't even the only things in the game that you have to pay for. Wouldn't you rather pay for a new game and not have to buy any of the new content?