Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20160724144659/@comment-27510501-20160727092823

Anti-hacker76 wrote: FM are not asleep... just sitting on their super-yachts counting the cash they get from players (being forced to if you need to get completion) buying GC! Yep, I have to agree with Anti-hacker76... if FM/EA weren't making reasonable returns on the effort and licensing costs they incur for each update, they'd stop updating!

So (unfortunately for most players in my opinion), there must be enough players globally shelling out real-world currency for in-apps purchases.

(And yes, they also make money from the in-game ads, but this can't possibly be a lucrative as in-app purchases are for them, or we would have surely seen more and more ads available for players to watch...)