"Jorge Yao pays for this game, so it's free for us"
There are 8.5 million people who play this game daily. Im so tired of reading posts which claim every update is "for" Jorge Yao and the leaderboard. I wish I had a breakdown of just how many people are TH9 lvl players, and their daily usage statistics, as well as if they've nearly maxed their bases — as well as other stats which I'm sure SC has, like stats on TH9 players which havent logged in as much as they used to due to boredom, etc.
The leaderboard does not pay to keep this game free for us. The fact is, SC cannot be worth nearly one billion dollars from 200 people using gems feverishly. The math is just not there. The bottom 8,459,500 players use more gems on a daily basis than the leaderboard ever could.
These updates are not "for" Jorge Yao, which so many people around the community continue to claim. These updates are something for us to look forward to, and something to keep us excited for, months before we get to that stage of being a bored TH9 with nothing really to do except chase trophies.
Seriously. Stop. Go raid and have fun. KTHNXPLZ