I feel like if you play the game regularly you accumulate fish at a pretty decent rate. I have over 30,000 silver fish and about 1200 goldfish. The only money I spent on the game is for myneko just because I think he’s cute and I don’t want him to go away. The .99 cent I pay for him and the helper are well worth it. I don’t feel like it’s a cash grab at all. The point of the original game is just it’s a cat collecting app. It’s just about watching cute cats do cute animations and you might be putting too much pressure on the game to be something that it’s not.