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Comment by dustintrex

4 years ago

> is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it?

If you're designing a free to play game and want to make money from it, this is not just good, it's a design goal -- as long as the developer is the one making the real world money.

Clash of Clans perfected this model over 10 years ago:

https://gyrovague.com/tag/clash-of-clans/

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