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No, you don't need to spend any money (there are plenty of us who don't). It is simply that so many people just don't want to spend any time or effort to become good at being strategic in the game. As for the game resetting, you could have done as so many others have done and simply asked for what to do. Or, even better, if you would have looked further on the Comments or on the Forum Posts, you would have found out that refreshing would have fixed your problem.
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So, I've been doing this for a couple days, and I need to say this game just straight up doesn't work. Oh, don't get me wrong, it worked for the first... two days? Then, I came back today. All progress reset, and it will no longer reward me monies when I complete any mission on any difficulty. This is a game that absolutely relies on ingame purchases, the buildings and the hireable troops, and it feels like the game is trying to FORCE me to spend real money to get to WHERE I WAS yesterday, before it reset my progress. I was having fun when the saves actually worked, and now it feels like a grind to get anywhere. 1/5 just for that.
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Just noticed in achievements that I acquired the Ninja badge on 9/22/12. Suddenly I feel very old:) but it speaks volumes about my opinion of this game.
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Good game, but I am having lag issues with the game. Framerate is low (for me at least), but otherwise I like the game! Used to play BTD3 all the time in school