Don’t play live service games and this won’t be an issue.
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Submitted 11 months ago by RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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doofy77@aussie.zone 11 months ago
palebluethought@lemmy.world 11 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.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 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.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah I tried Honda Star Rail after seeing it pushed everywhere and I bounced off it hard. I just my brain is just broken in different ways lol.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
all the other stuff they try to use to camouflage the slot machine
They get sucked in to our 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 11 months ago
Cute anime girls are cute.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like anime girls and the games are fun, it’s not that deep
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re paid to talk about it.
figjam@midwest.social 11 months ago
You my friend, are talking to the wrong people
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like skinner boxes…
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
How can people do so many at a time?
At most, i did the daily quests of 1 game
Shou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Addiction
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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@lemm.ee 11 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.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well when you play that many shit games, of course you’re gonna hate your life
olafurp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a full workday of chores
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Yeah, as if you didn’t already have a real job full of chores to get on with
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I do enough bullshit daylies offline already.
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
IRL dailies are the worst. They never have good rewards either.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Ouch. Yeah, same…
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Masturbate once per day? How old is this guy, 70?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 11 months ago
Likely teen.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That got more brutal the more I read. I truly feel sorry for them and I play DotA and LoL.
msage@programming.dev 11 months ago
… why lol?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I lol too when I see that people still play Dota.
sazey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look at Mr wakes up in the morning and brushes his teeth rubbing it in the rest of our faces.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love how classic wow is tucked in there lmao
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah but that’s just a solid 8h block, accurate haha.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Apart from just doing dailies instead of playing for fun, that sounds like a very tempting life style right now.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Some people complain not bring able to work, and then grind “dailies” and other bulls####
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 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.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
Missing many cups of coffee.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Do you mean a 12 pack of beer?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Lol sadness speedrun - go! Can you beat my best time of 8 years??
YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Least lazy hexbear
Brekky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s a dailie?
Glent@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
[deleted]Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
There are also rewards for daily login streaks where you get better rewards the longer the streak.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
‘It’s a way the game manipulates you into forming an addiction. But if you like being addicted…’
Emmie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Full time job where you pay money to the boss
IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I skip everything between make a coffee and eat dinner
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I usually skip the coffee and the dinner 😳
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
What are you, like an adorable little frog on a cute little lily pad or something?
IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At that point I would skip turning on the PC and brushing your teeth.
Maybe skip sleep too
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Man, doing Star Rail dailies takes about five minutes. Why even mention it?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Fuck you and I’ll see you tomorrow.
But anyway, sounds like you need some Animal Well in your life.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The sortie is kind of a daily?
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 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.
SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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.
Syltti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oof… About Princess Connect…
Steak@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
What the hell is a princess connect?
Syltti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was/is a mobile game that was published in the west by Crunchyroll. The EN server was shut down, though.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t go out into public much myself anymore, there’s nothing for me to “do” outside of chores and errands. Most of my friend interactions are online or at a private residence over anything public.
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Nothing better than breaking one of those cycles and realizing you’re free.
arin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
China banning dailies seems good actually
Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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 11 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.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Have you tried it with a randomiser? Would recommend if you haven’t!
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 11 months 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.
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I know that feeling. Though I went straight to my steam backlog so I traded one addiction for another.
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s usually how it goes. The trick is remembering the addiction trading isn’t a one time event.