You've got a point here, but let's don't forget about all the opportunities to get free Sapphires. Of course, you can't get 100k in a week, but you can move by little steps.Alyona Kolomiitseva said:
But please, give it a chance. Some of the new game features may differ from what you're used to, but they are designed to diversify the gameplay, and make our game more interesting and exciting.
I'm sure that you will like most of them if you can adapt your strategy.It wouldn't been so bad if the cost wasn't so excessive. For the simplest comparsion, go to steam, then just browse the featured list of games, then just start compare price of what you can get for your moneys worth. Just take Age of Wonders III that probably the closest you get to Stormfall in setting as example.
New game features mean little if we the players can't really afford to explore them much. This game take a long time to play, thus it would made far more sense to keep us have to invest less but more over time. It's really pointless to discuss, but Plarium got over priced games, and that is the bottom line of things.