>>718792223
>how do they make money with this?
Whales.
Max pixels/week from waiting is 20160. With the refund from using a flag it puts us at 22176.
That also nets us another 1320 through placing those pixels, from buying them for 500 drops/ 30 pixels.
Then we will say they probably get another few levels, we will be generous and say 20, for another 10k drops which is another 600.
A person can expect to make at most less then 25k pixels a week if they use every pixel you can possibly get.
Now see the whales. Here we have the top 5, about 6m pixels drawn between them. This is a shortfall of 5.875m pixels.
$5 buys you 25k drops, or 1500 pixels. This means the top 5 players fed the devs $20k in the last week. There are over 50 players who have bought 75k+ pixels/ spent $250 or more in the past week.
Considering they are Brazilians that made it, this is good money.