I had a thread about my friend that wanted to put a chess-like game on the internet and charge people £1 to compete in tournaments.
I called the thread Killing friends’ dreams
Obviously games do make money, so it is not intrinsically bad in that sense. However the design of his game was awful, and he had no understanding of why pay-to-play won’t get off the ground. Plus he was not a coder, so unsurprisingly, it’s been a money pit for him.