Eventually someone is going to get very rich by doing the following:
1. Make a souls-like game where level-ups are explicitly purchased with regular currency (e.g. in the form of cyberpunk body mods)
2. Note inside the game that this is a form of pay-to-win
3. Load the game with brutal, esoteric achievements
4. Have a real pay-to-win option where, for a real-world $10m payment, a player can instantly "100%" the game
5. Sit back and wait for some rich dickhead to actually do it
#gameDev
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