Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
that is not cheating, merely offering incentives for the user to spend money, which = profit, which is the sole reason for this to exist.

and making games to make profit has been around since the start of selling games.
Nope. That's totally cheating. Here is why:

-Player A: starts today, plays 3 hours per day without spending money, gets a reward from the leaderboards equal to X;
-Player B: starts today, plays 8 hours per day without spending money, gets a reward from the leaderboards equal to Y (where Y>X);
-Player C: starts today, plays 1 hour every 2 days, spends a lot of money, gest a rewards from the leaderbords equal to Z (where Z>Y).

It's as if player C uses a cheat engine table to multiply the resources in game aka cheating.

In game purchases are ok only if they aren't lootboxes and/or with an impact on the game. Refiling the challenge tokens on the league with kobans is cheating, since you can purchase kobans; same goes for epic/event pachinko, where there is also the random part.

It can not be simpler than this.