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You’d have to pay money. Monetization heavily favors mictrotransactions and are built around the most abusive Skinner box concepts. The Asian market is well known to spend high rates on IAP letting terrible games earn 100s of millions.

Subreddits like r/iosgaming should be a good starting point.



Agree with all of this except /r/iosgaming, have seen more than a few requests for quality games get drowned out with “there’s nothing wrong with mtx, just don’t buy it”

People get weirdly defensive when you mention that you don’t even want the option for mtx in the games you play.




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