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wrw01
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I received this response from Joonas. Good explanations for the changes.
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Joonas, Aug 21, 08:25:
Hello again,

and thank you for contacting us!

I can understand your frustration and this came as a surprise for me at first as well. After consulting the developers about this, they told me that the reasons behind this decision are multi-dimensional – First, the upgrading costs have gone through the roof and the developers are about address this issue in the upcoming updates. Second, there has been some distribution issues with the larger gem packs, so one way to reduce these problems is to reduce the amount of code of the gems, which in turn means fewer number of gems. The actions that have been done regarding this issue are not meant to rip off you or our other customers, the main reason is to make the game more easy to play and like in a real economy, we believed that the gems were suffering from a deflation. By making a virtual ”appreciation”, we believe that we can make the game work more efficiently and balance out the difference between different currencies in the game.

I know, that this might look like a harsh action at first, but when you look past the numbers, you’ll see that there won’t be any radical changes made to the gameplay. Even though you will get fewer gems, you’ll also need fewer gems to upgrade your characters etc. In a nutshell, the value of one gem has gone up, but at the same time the amount required to upgrade your characters will go down in the future. These things are used to fluctuate from update to update, this thing has happened in different Rovio games before and never has the sole purpose of these actions been to rip off our customers.

Hopefully this answers to your question, I also understand your frustration but I hope that you can see the reasons behind this change!

Sincerely yours,

Joonas
Rovio Support Team