Originally posted by Vault Traveler:

I never understand how people can be mad about a game where they can get 100h and more good time out of 17 bucks.

You have to remember how much literal toil takes place in games in this genre. Heck people will dog pile and insult folks who badmouth toil on the forums games like this. When a game in this genre works for a player, all the annoyance and frustration of the grind is transmuted into a positive by the pay off.

When games like these fail to work for a player, that person spent money to get annoyed and frustrated, and they can't even get a refund. All they can do is wait and hope it gets good enough to be given a second chance.

The sunk cost fallacy also embitters many a player.