Coding agents could speed up game-economy tuning as software value turns more winner-take-most
trq212 · x · 2026-07-26
A reply argues that mobile games have been demand-constrained for a long time, and that success mostly comes down to in-game economy design and monetization.
The poster thinks coding agents could speed up the search for the right economy. They also note that a game that might have earned $5–10 million if shipped around 2012 could be copied by almost anyone today, implying that software value is increasingly winner-take-most and highly compressible over time.
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