Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29636239-20171019102935/@comment-32545704-20171020135007

I really don't think this has anything to do with sponsors. They created this new feature and this is the first trial of it. They know we are a sceptical audience, and they want to make sure it doesn't go down like a lead balloon as that would look bad. They may have seen the thread for this challenge and noted there is already a lot of complaining, righly or wrongly, and even that is pretty much based on the assumption that we will get the 60mil target, since most of the posts regarding awards assume that the payout will be 45GC (or 30 depending how you interpret it). Imagine how much worse the complaining would be if they didn't even get that payout? Whether or not the rewards are too low is a seperate argument, it is what it is and they want it to appear to be a success, especially after they fuelled the flames by predicting on RRTV that we would get 60mil. It wouldn't surprise me if next time the target is lower, if there is a next time.

So if they are injecting laps (and it is still an IF) then I think that is why. But personally I don't have any issues with that, I'm inclined to believe that their intentions are good.