User blog comment:Wineybrit/Life after 70. Is there anything left to live for? Why carry on going?/@comment-5103836-20130102052332

This is something that I have been struggeling with for the last month or so. The problem really starts around level 50, where the only thing to do is grind xp from stores until you get to the next level to be able to buy a new stores to grind even more xp. There is very little else to do,  buy a few stores, maybe some users will finish off the their last expansion or two and upgrade the rock a few more times (which does little but unlock a few items). The phoeix challenge is pretty nice, but that is over quickly, and collecting dinos is going to be a never ending task so there is always that, but once you hit 70 and finish building the dozen or so special buildings post-50, the game really is at an end.

There are some who love to tinker with the village layout, but making your village 'look nice' and dealing with the inventory system is a chore, and for myself, probably 2/3 of my village is habitats and with no more expansions coming, my decoration space is limited. Also decorating your village will prevent you from continuing to grind out that coveted xp buffer. I probably have enough for the next 10 levels at this point, but really what is the reason for that? So I can instantly reach the cap again and continue to grind xp for the next cap? Continually running stores is mindnumbing work and far from fun. Breeding dinos was fun for me for a while, but the game has become more tiny monsters than tiny dino village with the latest 'dino' releases.

At this point, I don't do much, set my stores to 12-16 hours, collect my 11 diamonds, hatch a dino, start a new one and maybe if i'm feeling the least bit motivated try for a fusion. Even this last round of bingo I only played 3 of the free daily plays. I'm over 2200 diamonds, with no reason to spend them on anything, have some 400mil coins with nothing to use them for and 6bil+ xp for a level expansion that may or may not come, and even if it does, will likely bring very little in the form of actual content.

I have a Tiny Monsters village as well, and at level 50 I run into the same problem with the content all being at the lower levels where they can hook you, and very little at the top levels where they know you are too invested in the game to leave. Maybe Tinyco is simply spread too thin to with all of the different Tiny games they have released that they can longer devote the time required to make Tiny Village really good. I know they have also run up against some older device restraints as far as adding in more content, like expansions, so there are technical issues to consider but then again they don't seem to have problems adding things like mini-games to their other titles.

I use to love this game, but now I find myself dreading the thought of even turning it on. All I have to look forward to is a grind without a purpose. Hopefully something new is added that refreshes the game for me and gets me motivated to play again. I don't regret my time spent, and I got my moneys worth (spent $20) but I would like to see some more content added.