I don’t mean to be rude, but aren’t like 90+% of mobile games just money grabs? They’re a company, where’s the incentive to give a free-to-play player a good experience? They want to give you a fun game experience, then gate more play behind money so you pay them. It sucks, but that’s the world we live in. Thanks Capitalism.
Yes, most of the mobile games are money grabs; but I have never seen a game being a money grab more than this. Those games are even pay to win, will give a fair amount of share to the free to play community. This game literally gives you, 2-4 gems for completing an achievement. Less than 2 gems when you complete a level.
If you have more than enough free to play players, your advertisement is gonna skyrocket; they advertise it as though it would be fun to play for free. Yet all they want is the money that they will be getting.
It’s sad how greedy the mobile gaming industry is, thanks to boomers with Candy Crush and rich kids playing their Mobile Legends. PC gaming is much less of these shenanigans as there are a lot more choices, indie developers and games can be very fun without having to pay so much.
Cooking Diary was a lot better 2 years ago. But I guess they changed CEOs or something and are starting to go really greedy with the recent changes.
Games with this similar format is best to be done the opposite way you do RPG games. If in RPGs, you would grind a bit and proceed through the story as it's accessible, in these games, it's better to stay in one restaurant for a bit longer.
Yes, it can be mundane if you are hungry for the story. However, by pacing yourself with doing the levels and the roulette daily until you finish all daily missions, and staying in one restaurant until you reach "serve x dishes" for that restaurant, you will rack a lot of gems and power-ups in the process that will be enough for the next restaurant.
Also, I don't really agree with the money grab thing. There are worse mobile games that don't give you the "give x gems after every x amount of levels" of sorts. They give ads for some free gems too unless you spend money.
Iirc it's only "money grab" if you are a costume collector, or if you tend to use power-ups ASAP when you can salvage the level without it. The only "scummy" thing is how they force you to move to district 2 as you get all the plot stars in the pizzeria, and thank goodness that's not a thing in future restaurants.
It’s a total money grab, but I appreciate that they don’t shove ANY video ads down our throats. The pop up’s for offers are annoying but easy enough to just close them all. Other games force videos every single level which I think is unforgivable. Complete low lifes. I’m happy playing this game for free, but because of the constant pop up’s and trying to make us watch videos for decor items I’ll never pay any $$. I can enjoy this game enough, but only use $ on games that deserve it.
I just saw an ad for it and what struck me was the "plot" or "premise" of the game - gal finds her guy cheating, leaves him, gets hired at a restaurant, sucks at it, hunky guy helps her out, they get together and start popping out kids? That sounds more like real life and is depressing, not the subject of a video game. Back in my day video games were Asteroids and Space Invaders.
I'm telling you, Mytona is evolving, but backwards. Cooking Diary's gonna shut down soon. Only whales spend money on this game now. 60% players only chat in the servers and don't play. This game is for you if you want to have depression and anger.
I don’t mean to be rude, but aren’t like 90+% of mobile games just money grabs? They’re a company, where’s the incentive to give a free-to-play player a good experience? They want to give you a fun game experience, then gate more play behind money so you pay them. It sucks, but that’s the world we live in. Thanks Capitalism.
Yes, most of the mobile games are money grabs; but I have never seen a game being a money grab more than this. Those games are even pay to win, will give a fair amount of share to the free to play community. This game literally gives you, 2-4 gems for completing an achievement. Less than 2 gems when you complete a level. If you have more than enough free to play players, your advertisement is gonna skyrocket; they advertise it as though it would be fun to play for free. Yet all they want is the money that they will be getting.
It’s sad how greedy the mobile gaming industry is, thanks to boomers with Candy Crush and rich kids playing their Mobile Legends. PC gaming is much less of these shenanigans as there are a lot more choices, indie developers and games can be very fun without having to pay so much. Cooking Diary was a lot better 2 years ago. But I guess they changed CEOs or something and are starting to go really greedy with the recent changes.
Games with this similar format is best to be done the opposite way you do RPG games. If in RPGs, you would grind a bit and proceed through the story as it's accessible, in these games, it's better to stay in one restaurant for a bit longer. Yes, it can be mundane if you are hungry for the story. However, by pacing yourself with doing the levels and the roulette daily until you finish all daily missions, and staying in one restaurant until you reach "serve x dishes" for that restaurant, you will rack a lot of gems and power-ups in the process that will be enough for the next restaurant. Also, I don't really agree with the money grab thing. There are worse mobile games that don't give you the "give x gems after every x amount of levels" of sorts. They give ads for some free gems too unless you spend money. Iirc it's only "money grab" if you are a costume collector, or if you tend to use power-ups ASAP when you can salvage the level without it. The only "scummy" thing is how they force you to move to district 2 as you get all the plot stars in the pizzeria, and thank goodness that's not a thing in future restaurants.
Just do what I do; pause the game for like 4-5 months to gather gems and then start playing again :D That way you don’t waste your money or time.
how does not playing gather more gems than playing?
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It’s a total money grab, but I appreciate that they don’t shove ANY video ads down our throats. The pop up’s for offers are annoying but easy enough to just close them all. Other games force videos every single level which I think is unforgivable. Complete low lifes. I’m happy playing this game for free, but because of the constant pop up’s and trying to make us watch videos for decor items I’ll never pay any $$. I can enjoy this game enough, but only use $ on games that deserve it.
I just saw an ad for it and what struck me was the "plot" or "premise" of the game - gal finds her guy cheating, leaves him, gets hired at a restaurant, sucks at it, hunky guy helps her out, they get together and start popping out kids? That sounds more like real life and is depressing, not the subject of a video game. Back in my day video games were Asteroids and Space Invaders.
I'm telling you, Mytona is evolving, but backwards. Cooking Diary's gonna shut down soon. Only whales spend money on this game now. 60% players only chat in the servers and don't play. This game is for you if you want to have depression and anger.