Johnsir,
It has been a while, but to be clear, as I mentioned in the post, I put a limit on my spending. After what I recall being about 3-4 hours, I ended up spending 55 cents, which amounted to 3750 words—roughly the mid-range of a short story. If we do some basic math (ignoring any guesswork past $60), $60 spent on the API at that time would have equated to 900,000 words. To put this in perspective, the entire Harry Potter series contains 1,084,170 words, meaning the API practically wrote several books' worth of words . and to be clear I never said anywhere in my post that I paid 55 cents over the course of an entire month of playing. While the game is unique by no means is it something I would assume people would play for longer than 3-5 hours.