Talk:Barbarian King/@comment-88.123.141.17-20130111190305/@comment-76.182.243.151-20130121062238

Supercell's idea was to give you the opportunity to spend gems on Dark Elixir because many people would just be too lazy to upgrade the town hall AND buy a Dark Elixir Drill AND wait approximately 20 days, harvesting the Dark Elixir Drill every 5-6 hours or so, just to get 10k Dark Elixir. It would be far easier to simply spend $10 for 1200 gems and use 600 or even all 1200 gems on Dark Elixir. Less time, and since time is money (not really), less money (still, not really). THAT is why Supercell's Clash of Clans is still the top grossing app. They make new updates that practically FORCE you to buy more gems, but I'm not complaining. I'm a proud player with a Town Hall Level 7 myself.