I don't mind. You don't need to skip the levels if you don't want to. Two recent puzzle games I've played on the iPhone (Cut the Rope, and Puzzler World) both

I don't mind. You don't need to skip the levels if you don't want to. Two recent puzzle games I've played on the iPhone (Cut the Rope, and Puzzler World) both offer ways to skip through difficult puzzles, and I've yet to use them. Re: EA's "buying your way through a game", this is old (comparatively) behaviour that's been going on in XBLM and PSN. It's annoying, but so far it's been ignorable. Multiplayer that requires DLC rubs me the wrong way, but I vote with my wallet and stop playing when this sort of thing happens (it's been rare that I've found continued value in a game when they do this, but I suspect I'm in the minority).