Great for seeing dinos with AR but absolutely Pay-To-Play in a *big* way. Ludia regularly changes the rules to devalue what you paid/worked to build. You'll have to continually spend a ton of $ to advance. Consequently, it isn't worth paying anything. VIP doesn't really help you advance at all. Also, the game is a MAJOR resource hog that drains your battery quickly and lags terribly (even on a newer high end phone). This game also regularly locks up and crashes. Too bad as it used to be fun.