Comment by bredren

>Grinding mechanics are way, way easier to create. You can even reuse sprites and just change names - a lv10 tree, a lv50 tree, a lv100 tree. Real content is hard to do, requires imagination, development, testing.

Reuse of content in new context doesn’t have to be a boring clone.

Disney would regularly reuse animations of characters between animated films to save money. It did not necessarily take away from the wrapping content’s best moments or overall entertainment value.

For example dancing reveries and other sequences in Robin Hood used rotoscoping heavily. [1]

There’s no doubt the reuse was cheap but in some ways that allowed the designers to focus on new characters and scenes.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-reuses-animation-2015...