Ill start with this- the art for the game is very nice. Creative creatures, colorful characters and enviroments, but thats about where my enjoyment of the game stops. In regards to the app itself, on my brand new iPhone6s the game constantly has random crashes; I never know when its going to crash, cant pin down whats causing it, and overall, the stability is incredibly inconsistant.
My next major beef with this game is that the catch rates are ABSURDLY low. For a game based on collecting monsters, it seems rigged in such a way that forces you to purchase (with real cash) the higher catch rate orbs.. And EVEN THEN, the % chance to capture us still low. Want to keep trying to catch that one monster with the regular balls? Nope! Maximum of 3 tries, then it flees. All of this together screams of a company just trying to gouge your wallet. I get that companies need cash flow, but there are better ways of doing it. Ive bought gems/money on Dragonvale before and in the recent past, because they actually run an AMAZING F2P model that is the closest to that term Ive EVER seen ANY game on any console get; and know what? Ive been playing the game since it came out, and Ill keep playing it, and buying stuff for it, cause they dont rig the system like these guys do.