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[-] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 30 points 2 days ago
[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I thought I was immune until I got sucked into some game where you battle with teams of players you collect and fight other players. There was some element of sending your titans to mine resources as well, but I forget the name of the game, but spent over $500 in it.

I literally uninstall any game that has gems, emeralds, coins that can be bought to speed things up.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I put 5 dollars into the clash of clans card game, realized they could very easily have had me for more, turned off the game, uninstalled, and never looked back (I don't think I even used the currency I had purchased).

It was a good moment of realization, glad I got out for 5 dollars.

They could've made so much more with all the permissions I'd given them XD

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Dark legacy comics has been my only source for wow.

I played when they "re released" classic, just before they bent over backwards to please China (that was a big reason I stopped, the other was classic wasn't classic, there was so much jank in it that had clearly not been qc'd), now I read about the adventures of the dlcomics cast and that's more than enough for me.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The entire reason people wanted to play classic was because of the jank.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Nah, there were things like floating sign posts, and enemies in places they shouldn't have been.

It was absolutely not the game that was released 22 years ago. Also they said they didn't re-tune the enemies, but everything was easier, so maybe it wasn't re-tuned, but it was differently tuned

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe you're just a better player then you were as a teen

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Bwahaha, would love if that was the case. Maybe I was more aggressive as a teen? Maybe I pushed harder into areas where I was under leveled? Except I know that isn't the case because I'm much more impatient as a gamer the days. I know that food and water were much more important to have on hand because of how frequently you'd need to rest between mobs I remember reaching the next tier of food and being relieved that I didn't have to wait the entire 20 seconds, sometimes more if I needed 2 rounds of water to fill my mana bar, on the re-release there was barely any down time when grinding the lower levels.

I'm often one to question people's rose tinted glasses, and I'm not upset for anyone to question my memory, but the"classic" release was made (not saying intentionally) easier than the original release (as a day 1 release player, through cataclysm)

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Man I want to get clean, but you don't understand they have three more states coming out on American Truck Simulator and I am desperate to travel to them in game.

I mean it's an awesome game and truly don't feel I wasted the money. Except now maybe I have. I have checked the game is not available outside of Steam. You can't buy a physical copy and not have it tied to online. If they decided to not support it or go out business I will lose everything.

Yeah need rethink playing that game.

[-] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

I do understand. I used to stay up playing WoW until sunrise. I used to have an in-game alarm set at 2 AM IRL to remind me to go to bed. I ground dailies until I hated them.

From one gamer to another: get out while you can. For one thing, I missed out on a LOT of good games because I was playing WoW. And the expansions are always a tease; the entire xpac and all of your work is going to be useless the very instant the next one drops. More than anything, I didn't like who I was when I played WoW.

I quit something like 5 or 6 years ago I think (sometime during the disaster that was Battle for Azeroth) and boy am I glad I did. Sometimes I miss Azeroth, but that is a relationship that will drain your very soul. Gotta do one more daily. One more dungeon. One more raid. Then I'll have enough widgets to buy the gizmo! And honestly, I was never even that good. Pretty much everything in my life has improved since I quit WoW. Not all of it was because of crippling gaming addiction, of course, but it made every aspect of my life more difficult.

All of the above applies to Elite: Dangerous as well. If you are at the point where you are rethinking your relationship with a game, its long past time to stop playing.

this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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