This game has 42 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 13 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
This game has 52 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 25 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
This game has 15 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 33 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
This game has 23 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 21 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
iOS: | (4.50) with 72,966 votes. |
Google Play: | (4.36) with 1,363,876 votes. |
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"what's hot" collections make you buy a whole set of characters to have one character that you won't find elsewhere. You won't see every what's hot every year. The hotel characters are available 5 days generally. Weekly competitive events, too.
In the case of the memory card the timer still runs, to prevent people to cheat with screenshots. In the siege/maze event combats too.
The tasks, the group quests, the shops and totem's ready time
The characters star level can be raised with mini games, but once you play with one pony you need to wait before you can play again. You can skip that. You can skip the time for a task, a group quest, a building being built, a shop being ready to collect, the magnet that automatically collects shops, an obstacle being destroyed, a dance to be ready again, a siege event community helper to be available, ballon pop, clear the sky energy...
Pay to skip, pay to unlock a zone... And the button's position is right where you could tap it if you're doing something too fast. Plus the pop ups for bundle. I can't thank enough Google for needing me to confirm my purchases or else I'd have spent easily 150€
The "royal subscription". I think it's 10€? It gives access to some skips
Balloon pop
Sales
Some events take 10 days and either you're a long time player and very dedicated and you can save 3 days, or you aren't so you need the 10 days, and maybe even need to wake up at night once every hour and a half. The 3 days events are even worse, no room for error and you can't sleep more than 7 hours.