User blog comment:Cal62/Download bugs/@comment-5216601-20130731084638/@comment-5200570-20130820063757

Hey Cal62, glad to hear you were able to get crystal producers for the first time! They are a wonderful thing. But just to be clear I wasn't trying to single anyone out here. It was intended to be more of a generalization about peoples perception of what this game owes them. The game is free, it owes us nothing. Anyone who has paid for crystal takes what is hopefully a calculated risk.

As far as crystal producers go I can't even remember if even one has turned off on the day it was supposed to... maybe one? There is currently one producer that was supposed to expire 2 months ago that is still producing, so players collecting regularly have gotten about 200 free crystals from one individual producer, which is about what it initially cost. The Crystal Rose had siezed production for a number of weeks before it started producing crystals again for about six weeks.

Another not completely unrelated thing, new expansions were free for a period of time a few weeks ago. So yes, Tiny Co. does have a lot of issues... A LOT of them, but even though there are many errors not in the players favour, there are also quite a few that are in the players favour. I'd say it evens out, but honestly, I think the players generally come out ahead long term.

Anyways, I should probably stop, but there are many more examples on both sides of the coin!