to my mind, there is no doubt games that pay you to play are the way of the future.

Isn't that the truth. Blockchain games are going to take over when they vastly lower the bar of entry to professional gamers. The positive feedback loop of getting a return on the money you put in is going to be insanely addictive.

Hilariously enough, it looks like the centralized server used to operate @drugwars is already bottlenecked with a backflow of operations. My requests are being posted to the blockchain but the server isn't responding to them until like 5 minutes later.

The success of this game will be leveraged into dozens more. In the last 12 hours the reward pool has gone from 11k coins to 19k.