Comment on PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Even ignoring the workers’ solidarity aspect of it:
It is actually a really good practice to break those login/usage streaks with ALL services. I read a lot of ebooks and I generally will have a “streak” of even two or three years with amazon kindle since I try to read for at least 20 minutes every night. Over the past year or so I’ve started to migrate out of the amazon ecosystem to better support authors and… I definitely find myself hesitating when picking my next book because I COULD read this non-kindle book or… I could read this other book I have via kindle (the prices ARE good) and make number go up. And Amazon realized that we don’t always have an internet connection so they’ll log that to prevent the old streak breaking that came from not bothering to connect to the hotel wifi.
And the same happens with games. I dip my toe into ESO once or twice a year and it always amuses me how much of that is geared up to make you log-in every single day for a month.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yup, streaks exist to encourage the feeling similar to a sunk cost, just like rewards programs.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Gotta get that daily login bonus in [insert live service game here].
aniki@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
for me it’s duolingo.
Master167@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
A 2 year streak on Duolingo did nothing for my ability to communicate with a new language in a new country.
Very fast uninstall after that trip.