Talk:Army Camp/@comment-62.131.211.8-20130629082118/@comment-26024115-20150119224057

Silly rabbit! Of course they are trying to get money! If Supercell doesn't make money, this game doesn't get updates. And if you are equating the top ranked players to being the best CoC players, you should know that nobody makes it to the top without opening their wallet to pay for gems these days. The costs are made higher not only to increase the difficulty of attaining enough resources to complete the upgrades, but to also play off of people's impatience and/or frustration when somebody comes and raids you and takes 100's of thousands or gold and elixir from you; making the upgrade that much more difficult to complete. Supercell is hoping for the moment(s) that a player says to themself, "I'll just get gems to cover this last bit." Even better for Supercell is when the players don't mind spending money on a game that they really enjoy and they decide to skip the lower levels so they can get all the cool troops and just gem their way through a few town hall levels.

In summary, this game is about how to get players to buy gems. If gems are not bought, developers are not paid and the game eventually ceases to exist.