• Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 months 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
        4·
        5 months 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.

    • palebluethought@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months 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.

      • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 months 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.

      • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 months 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.

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months 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.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 months ago

      Bro doing 5 min dailies is Genshin is definitely not as hard as working a job in roofing or deal with customers at Starbucks.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
    31·
    5 months 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

  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    5 months ago

    Only live service Game I play is Warframe. Has no daylies weeklies if you want. Then all I ever play are offline games mostly indies. Recently finished Blasphemous 2 and now I’m playing bloodstained ritual of the night

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
        1·
        5 months ago

        Agreed. I love Warframe and I think they are really good at humane design. But they are not above dailies and gacha mechanics.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
          1·
          5 months ago

          Yea I don’t think they’re too bad about it. A little of that stuff helps keep things interesting for players. I have tons of stuff in that game and I think I only spent about 20$ on plat a few years ago and even that wasn’t really necessary with how easy it is to get stuff to sell other players. It really is a good player friendly F2p game.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months 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.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      1·
      5 months ago

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

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months 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.

  • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I used to play Need for Speed: World back in the day, and it had a daily of its own where you’d get to collect some treasures scattered around a random district in the city; doing so would give you a random reward, and the longer you kept up a streak, the better said rewards would get.

    I was a broke teenager at the time, and it was the only way I could get remotely good drops at the time, but it was really annoying to do so every day and eventually it made me feel like a slave to the game. I actually kinda felt liberated when the game shut down since it meant no longer having that responsibility, and I don’t think I ever want to get into dailies again.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Fuck you and I’ll see you tomorrow.

    But anyway, sounds like you need some Animal Well in your life.