California Escapades

I really loved this game….the graphics, adventures and all that until the latest update. The majority of the reviews mention the difficulty of acquiring energy to make decent progress through the game and this update made it even harder. Not until this game have I ever spent real cash. I always determined I would play for free or not at all. I enjoyed this game so much, I went against my better instinct and began purchasing gems to acquire energy. I have spent more than I should but was enjoying the progress I was making. With this new update, they have increased the refresh time to produce energy in the “oven” by 6x. They have offered “free” daily energy options that in no way make up for the extra time now needed to produce that energy. This is designed to drive you to increase your spending of cash or make virtually so little progress there is no fun anymore especially if you are trying to get through a timed event. So sad, I really wanted to keep playing but I can’t afford it anymore.

I love this game! I’ve played it now consistently for 42 days. The game graphics are really well done but I do have some suggestions. The energy levels to clear items are WAY too high! I have spent an obscene amount of money on this game just so I could keep filling my energy as I can’t go to be with things half done. While I’m sure that income if the reasoning behind it, make it a little more worth my bang! For 20 bucks I should get 2,000 or more emeralds not 500! Secondly make the tools easier to obtain! In the beginning I was constantly running out and again spending emeralds to purchase the missing stuff. Thirdly, the special statues and figurines that we earn during events, those should continue to give you the special items they produce or at least make them available to be sold for emeralds or coins after they are done producing. Fourth, make everything available to be purchased with coins rather than emeralds! Not everyone can afford to drop 20 bucks every few days on a game but the game is so well done and so fun to play so everyone should be able to enjoy it!

You should really let people know when they start these games that everywhere you go on the maps you should make sure that you get all of the resources in that area of the map. I did not know this to start with so I did not do this during the whole first part of the map. I did not know about all the secret chests that were hidden that you could find when you get all the resources and go to every hidden little corner of that map. I really like the game but now I am out of certain resources which I know that I can buy them but I do not put money in a game. I need my money to live and eat and it is after all JUST a GAME. So I deleted it and there are more out there and I will go as far as I can and delete them to. I saw no instructions or a guide to do this you have certain tasks that you are to do BUT you need to go over the whole area to find even more things which you will not know about until you do. I will give two stars but these games really need instruction for the 1st new area on map you go to to tell you what you need to do. I did not see any so did them as quickly as possible and left but you cannot do that and have enough resources later on. Other than that it was okay.