Capital Games TeamPlease spend your energy designing a game that rewards strategic investment over more numbers and more $ = more wins. You're losing the community that keeps this game running, unless you were intending to just milk it until the ship goes down and you can move on to the next thing. Which I guess is a possible "strategic direction" from what I assume are your short-term-thinking MBA-holding C suite suits.
Pay down your technical debt, refactor the codebase, fix outstanding bugs, invest in new features and game modes that draw people in if you actually care.
This is so clearly a step into lazy monetization for its own sake, rather than a quality of life improvement or engaging set of features for the existing player base or new players. Why invest developer resources into doing this? Who benefits from this? People who are into paying more to be be "better" than someone else who paid less money or happened to join later than you? It's gross.
