Comment by sva_

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

The things that people are willing to spend money on in games are usually interesting for people for the exact reason that those things are scarce. So it is, from my experience, all about showing off.

Saying this as someone who exploited a lot of games and made some large passive income from that, "back in the days". I'd say 95% of -- "end-customers" (as opposed to resellers which you need if you move a lot,) bought stuff just to show off.

So if those things were readily available and didn't require grinding, people wouldn't desire them. It's almost a bit of a paradox, I guess.