Fun, but pay-to-win.
Like most phone games, this is a pay-to-win game, especially once you start falling behind on being able to afford the buildings, crops and animals necessary to even play the game. Even if you use the in-game market to decrease the prices to absolute minimum on the items you sell, it still wont help your sales. The item-drop ratio on some crops is abysmal (particularly the maple trees), and mining is hit or miss leaning more towards constant miss. Once you start hitting level 20 especially is when you have to start paying upwards of $50 USD to get enough gems to afford the increasing amounts of crops, animals and buildings and other necessary items to continue playing the game. I dont know about anyone else, but I have better things to spend my money on than a game. So if you have disposable income like no ones business, youll probably be fine. The rest of us will stop playing around that level.
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Farm Story 2™, v2.6.4