DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY! – Sunshine Bay Review

************* DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY! ************* Sunshine Bay is nothing more than a grossly overpriced freemium. The game is deliberately crippled by greedy developers who extort excessively overpriced premiums for basic game functions. Everything has a hidden premium cost, and paying real money in order to play is absolutely mandatory. And negative reviews are constantly removed in order to give the game a false high rating. Basic gameplay consists of placing buildings, buying boats and sending them on voyages, and collecting revenue from buildings and voyages. Most buildings take several hours to build, then reveal the hidden premium cost of several impossible to locate items that are available for an additional premium purchase. If you opt to try to locate the items yourself, it will take months of active playing. Then there's the game killing flaw of a very limited play area available, which is impossible to expand without Facebook neighbors and excessively overpriced premium spending. However, the cost escalates with each expansion - requiring more and more Facebook neighbors and premium currency. IAPs for premium game currency are excessively overpriced, and in-game premium pricing is also outrageously expensive - especially since every function of the game has a required premium price tag. (This is typical of all Game Insight, LLC games.) Finally, the game has a built in setback - it constantly deletes experience points from your score, sometimes removing the points from several voyages and even dropping you back to a lower level - which also removes the level up bonus. Bottom line, Sunshine Bay is intentionally crippled in order to force IAPs and premium spending. Game Insight is well aware of the problems with their game, they just don't care enough to actually fix it. But they will release monthly "updates" in order to wipe out negative reviews.
Review by Kannan Fodder on Sunshine Bay.