Playtika has made several recent changes to June’s Journey, a game I’ve been playing for over 1.5 years. They have removed the certainty of receiving diamonds from gifted bushes from teammates and other players being replaced with bushes that *might* give diamonds or something else entirely. The weekly Detective League prizes have been downgraded and no longer have diamonds at all except for the first week. Competition prizes have been downgraded over the last year as well. Diamonds are a core resource in the game and any reduction in their numbers has an adverse effect on gameplay. Additionally, Playtika does not offer players equal opportunities for purchasing this core resource - algorithms decide if a player receives a very expensive offer ($99 includes 2500 diamonds plus a decor item or snippet pack) or a very reasonable offer ($5.99 and includes the same decor item or snippet pack but only 100 diamonds). The apparent logic is that the high offer is better value and is offered only to their higher spending customers. It takes forever to reshape your algorithm to receive cheaper offers if you’ve ever made the mistake of buying bulk diamonds. Finally there are at least 3 different rewards algorithms for the new gift bushes so while some players may have a 70% chance of receiving diamonds from a purple smokebush, other unlucky players will only have a 15% chance of diamonds. Additionally the coin payout on that bush is 100 coins, yet it cost your teammate 300 coins to give it to you. Lucky players only have an 8% chance of the coins, but unlucky players have a 35% chance. These unfair tactics have created a lot of ill will towards Wooga/Playtika, because we feel unvalued as customers, and we feel we are just cash cows in the way they treat us. June’s Journey used to be a wonderful game before Playtika took over. It’s been made clear to the company how players feel and the thing is that so many players used to happily spend money in game on decorations or offers and have now completely stopped spending anything because of the way the company has treated us and repeatedly ignored feature requests (like push alerts for in game chat, improving in game chat) and taking things away when they do add a feature such as the ability to move bushes came with the negative of these new bushes. If we could select which item we received when we cashed in the bushes players wouldn’t be upset by the changes. Listen to your players or you’ll drive the game and your company into the ground!