Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling

well, I have to give Molyneux some credit where credit is due.

This is incredibly clever and a great way to use IAP-type stuff.

After decades of trying to mke better and better videogames, always more realistic, Molyneux shows that the average human is, in fact satisfied by a Skinner box and will gladly pay for it.

I wouldn't exactly say that this is monetizing 'trolling'

I'm amazed that people are still buying into his games. If you were to go by Peter's history, it's quite likely that the "life-changingly amazing" thing in the middle of the cube is a message like "Sorry Mario, but the princess is in another cube".

I personally got burned somewhere around Fable and I'm never[0] going to get one of his games again..

[0] except for maybe Godus.. maybe.

"players have so far paid to remove nearly 14 million cubelets, while adding an extra 4.7 million."

Wow I almost spit out my tea when reading that while wrongly assuming each block was $0.99

Then I followed the link in page and discovered that the $6.99 point is for 100,000 units.

So figure ~200 of those sold or about $1000 after App Store fees.

I can now sleep tonight.