Not really, the article quite clearly says "... and its freemium model doesn’t seem to be working great." At the end the article mentions the game wasn't desig

Not really, the article quite clearly says "... and its freemium model doesn’t seem to be working great." At the end the article mentions the game wasn't designed with the current freemium model in mind (since the first iteration was pay-to-install), maybe that threw you off?