What if the said online game is more entertaining than solving in a boring faucets captchas all day? Faucets is more waste of time than playing an online game with has some opportunity to earn bitcoin even there is a chance that you won't earn bitcoins there.
The point here is side income. If a person wants to do a fixed income then playing online game is not the best way. It's just meant for side opportunities to earn bitcoin and playing online bitcoin game is more entertaining than faucets. What is the effect of that entertaining thing? They will improve more their tactics in that game and so on they can cover the problem of having difficulty to earn little satoshis in that particular online game.
I agree with you that faucet is very boring in the long run and they pay so little that you give up in the end. I think if they invent some good online game with good graphics, challenge and implement a bitcoin economy, people will come and play. The community will grow and the owner can share bitcoin with the players of the game as an example.
Who puts a lot of effort into a game won't want to give players money, he will want to get money from players for nice features in game... Everybody would like to earn money on a nice game with decent graphics, but it's not going to happen.
I think we should just enjoy the games we have at this moment paying BTCs to make some profit, better than nothing... And I hope more easy and simple games appear in the future, so we can earn always a bit more...