So, I work in the free-to-play mobile industry, and I need to correct some misconceptions on what you wrote. Puzzle & Dragons, for starters, is a huge game worldwide. More importantly, though, those timers and cool downs are not some sort of public health benefit. They are a standard freemium gameplay mechanic to psychologically manipulate you into spending money. Little tricks like that are worth billions of dollars at scale, and it’s how this business operates. It’s a bit dirty and cynical, but the sad fact is that people won’t pay for content. These games cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make (yes, even those little phone games) and nobody will pay even a dollar for them.
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