Nothing better than breaking one of those cycles and realizing you’re free.
China banning dailies seems good actually
I played Pokemon Red on an emulator on a night shift at work and it was a pretty awesome experience. I can’t imagine the idea of live service games existing. I think there’s something to be said about connectivity and discoverability but yeah man. Yeah.
Pokemon games are amazing to do while working.
It is one of the few games where you can literally pause at any second by tabbing away, since the game only progresses when receiving input.
Have you tried it with a randomiser? Would recommend if you haven’t!
I know that feeling. Though I went straight to my steam backlog so I traded one addiction for another.
That’s usually how it goes. The trick is remembering the addiction trading isn’t a one time event.
In my experience it will just loop to a new one
Over the last year I went from Marvel Snap > DBZ Dokkan > Snap > Arknights > Snap > Dokkan again with a healthy smattering with OSRS mixed in.
I hate live service games. They also seem to be all anyone ever talks about.
You my friend, are talking to the wrong people
They are live services precisely so there is something to talk about, and therefore more people join, and existing players stay hooked by FOMO.
They’re paid to talk about it.
I just don’t understand how people can get so sucked into gacha games. All the art design, the game world, all the other stuff they try to use to camouflage the slot machine, none of that stuff works more than a few hours. Once you see the “seams” of the skinner box, once it becomes blindingly obvious there’s nothing to find at the “end” of chasing higher DPS or whatever, why do people continue? It loses any sense of fun the moment it happens.
i like Blue Archive for its story and music and I’d even spend a few bucks if I really wanted a special character, but not much. since I’m not into the other gachas I might just be a rare example of an enjoyer tho lol
Addiction isn’t about fun.
It is about escaping.
I like anime girls and the games are fun, it’s not that deep
Cute anime girls are cute.
In a lot of people it presses a button in their brain. That button says “Fuck yeah!” at first. After a while it says “I need this to function” or “This is what I do because this is what I’ve always done”. It takes effort to overcome the feeling of nothing when there was once something there.
Yeah I tried Honkai Star Rail after seeing it pushed everywhere and I bounced off it hard. I guess my brain is just broken in different ways lol.
all the other stuff they try to use to camouflage the slot machine
They get sucked in to it for the same reason people throw all their money away on real slot machines. Gambling addiction is real, and we all have our vices. IMO it should be more regulated.
That’s a full workday of chores
Yeah, as if you didn’t already have a real job full of chores to get on with
Yo dawg, I heard you like skinner boxes…
Missing many cups of coffee.
Do you mean a 12 pack of beer?
Equally valid!
Both?!
Espresso martini?
Lol sadness speedrun - go! Can you beat my best time of 8 years??
I skip everything between make a coffee and eat dinner
I usually skip the coffee and the dinner 😳
What are you, like an adorable little frog on a cute little lily pad or something?
At that point I would skip turning on the PC and brushing your teeth.
Maybe skip sleep too
Apart from just doing dailies instead of playing for fun, that sounds like a very tempting life style right now.
What’s a dailie?
Daily quests. Basically limited time game quests.
There are also rewards for daily login streaks where you get better rewards the longer the streak.
I could set records with my streaks
I record all my streaks.
With audio of course.
To expand on that, in live service games, there are daily high value quests that can usually be completed in 15 minutes. This is to provide a big incentive to log in every day and a low bar to get some great rewards. It’s a habit-forming technique. But if you enjoy the game, it’s an easy and quick way to get currency you’d otherwise have to buy.
‘It’s a way the game manipulates you into forming an addiction. But if you like being addicted…’
Yeah, this is why I took a break from Arknights. It’s a good game, but I can only manage so many dailies. I’d rather wait for Endfield to release, so I can play Factorio while rolling gacha
Look at Mr wakes up in the morning and brushes his teeth rubbing it in the rest of our faces.
Masturbate once per day? How old is this guy, 70?
Likely teen.
I do enough bullshit daylies offline already.
IRL dailies are the worst. They never have good rewards either.
Ouch. Yeah, same…
they will be implementing verification cans soon to ensure we don’t cheat
How can people do so many at a time?
At most, i did the daily quests of 1 game
I’ve never done daily quests since they are just filler content to keep the ones with nothing better to do engaged.
I do the daily ffxiv dungeon rouletes since it’s an excuse to do old content without feeling like you lost time, but not everyday and not all of them.
They are not there to keep players engaged tbh, they are there so that people that wants to do that content can find people to do it with.
Good rewards for it too. On a few month hiatus from ffxiv but the roulette system really is fantastic.
Addiction
Yeah it’s a “dark” video game pattern. I hate that stuff so hard, I stopped enjoying wow when they did daily quests. It’s not fun, just a chore.
I’ve tried to get into it, but this makes me glad I don’t have the patience to get addicted to games.
My attention peters out pretty quickly unless I’ve got either constant novelty, amazing art, peerless vibes, or a moving story.
That got more brutal the more I read. I truly feel sorry for them and I play DotA and LoL.
… why lol?
I lol too when I see that people still play Dota.
