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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 year ago

Nothing better than breaking one of those cycles and realizing you're free.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

China banning dailies seems good actually

[-] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] doofy77@aussie.zone 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate live service games. They also seem to be all anyone ever talks about.

[-] palebluethought@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Addiction isn't about fun.

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[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Cute anime girls are cute.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like anime girls and the games are fun, it's not that deep

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They're paid to talk about it.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They are live services precisely so there is something to talk about, and therefore more people join, and existing players stay hooked by FOMO.

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[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 year ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like skinner boxes...

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 44 points 1 year ago

How can people do so many at a time?

At most, i did the daily quests of 1 game

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago

I've never done daily quests since they are just filler content to keep the ones with nothing better to do engaged.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Well when you play that many shit games, of course you're gonna hate your life

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

That's a full workday of chores

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as if you didn't already have a real job full of chores to get on with

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

I do enough bullshit daylies offline already.

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

IRL dailies are the worst. They never have good rewards either.

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Masturbate once per day? How old is this guy, 70?

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

That got more brutal the more I read. I truly feel sorry for them and I play DotA and LoL.

[-] msage@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I lol too when I see that people still play Dota.

[-] sazey@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Look at Mr wakes up in the morning and brushes his teeth rubbing it in the rest of our faces.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I love how classic wow is tucked in there lmao

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that's just a solid 8h block, accurate haha.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

Apart from just doing dailies instead of playing for fun, that sounds like a very tempting life style right now.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Missing many cups of coffee.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Do you mean a 12 pack of beer?

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Some people complain not bring able to work, and then grind "dailies" and other bulls####

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Least lazy hexbear

[-] Brekky@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I skip everything between make a coffee and eat dinner

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[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Full time job where you pay money to the boss. God damn ppl wake the f up and do smh

We won’t carry civilization like this. It’s in our generation hands now but they are tied doing genshin dallies and minds busy gobbling shipping fanfics. hence the old fucks like Biden and trump ordering us around as they please

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