Not really. You get a lot more points for being almost the first in an entire category. Cookie Clicker was like the third idle game after Candy Box and Candy Box 2, and the first one to have actual graphics instead of ASCII art. I remember when it first came out, it was huge because nobody'd ever seen anything like the genre before. That's like saying the original Tetris was more popular than it deserved to be, for such a simple game.
In fact, Orteil lost a huge amount of money by not racing to get a for-pay version into app stores as fast as possible, while clone makers were doing exactly that.
This post has been edited by Necromusume: Apr 7 2025, 20:54
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