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I like this line of thinking.
I more or less used to use OkCupid in this way... it has so many questions you can answer that basicsally, if you have your own set of hard red flags... just look through their answers to questions.
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You could theorerically do a paid shortcut for some things, but not others.
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With my gamer brain, the first thing that comes to mind is pay to win games:
You can design a game such that... you can reasonably progress through the game, get good items, level up reasonably quickly... without having to spend any more real world money.
Warframe is arguably a good example of this.
You can just play a fleshed out and enjoyable game and progress at a reasonable rate without spending any real world money, everything in the game is obtainable without more money if you're good at the game... but if you just have cash to burn, you csn just outright buy some high level gear, basically, to say, join up with some friends who've been playing for a long time, without playing for 50 or 100 hours to be on their level.
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But you can also make it just an absolutely hellish slog to progress through the game, such that you finally get tired of grinding and have that 'fuck it!' moment, and just pay to progress... and then you at first find those payments are rather cheap actually... but if you keep playing, the actual money costs ramp up faster and faster, alongside your time devoted to the game, so now you've got sunk cost and your brain sunk cost fallacy's you into just still playing and spending.
This is pretty much how WarThunder is designed.
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But uh yeah, ramble ramble... I like your basic framework here, but again the problem with monetization is thag is has to be reasonable and apparent to everyone, your idea of badges that show everyone this is I think good.
I am just very worried that if this whole app is privately owned... it will inevitably enshittify and subvert itseld to being an evil money draining skinner box as it attracts more investors or gets new owners or goes public or whatever.
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oh right
Thank you! =D