User blog comment:Asteria52/On Hacking/@comment-25021853-20140618063728

While I understand the temptation to cheat, you really only cheat yourself. For me most of the fun in a game, especially one like The Simpsons Tapped Out, is in figuring things out on my own (as much as possible, then I do ask for help when stuck) and actually earning things by working for them. I get much more satisfaction knowing I earned the donuts I used to buy premium content. Well, some of it anyway, I have bought some donuts too, after I'd been playing for awhile and felt confident I'd continue playing long enough to make the investment of real money worth it. I am disabled and on a fixed income, but I do have some discretionary income to spend on entertainment each month, and since I don't get out much playing this game is part of my entertainment and helps to distract me from the chronic pain I'm in.

I spent quite a bit of time planning what to buy with my donuts, and was careful to not spend them too fast. If the donuts had been free I would have just gone nuts buying everything and filling my water with whales and gotten bored with a game that was no longer fun or challenging.