Paying people to play games for you has been around for centuries -- what else is professional football and other sports? The difference with this is that after someone else has got the points / tokens / money you need you then take over and play it yourself. I don't have the time to play games (I don't have enough time to do the other things I want to do), but if I did I wouldn't want to spend a year or whatever working up to the point where I could do something interesting if I could cut that out with cash..