[forgetsusername]

>The market only cares about people that do pay. Those 99% might as well not exist and nothing would change.

Except that's not really how it works. You have to make your game good enough to attract the amount of players for which that 1% of paying users can support your development.

Go ahead and try to design a game that focuses on "whales", see how the works out.

[nostrademons]

"Go ahead and try to design a game that focuses on "whales", see how the works out."

This basically describes Las Vegas.

[forgetsusername]

And yet Vegas is massively appealing to the other 99.9% of people.

[cmdrfred]

Also why buy the "SUPER FLAMING SHOTGUN 9000" for $9.99 if there aren't mobs of non paying players to blow up? It's sort of like google, the non paying players are the product here.