wccrawford

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yeah, I think I remember that. It was pretty obvious it would be brutal for a lot of gamedev companies there, and I wasn’t surprised at all that it didn’t end up going through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean. The in-game reward path still has a daily “check in” task for points. And the daily “do 4 tasks” thing is in there, though they’ve opened it up a lot, which I really appreciate. (You can now do quests, open chests, or anything that costs energy to complete them, as well as the standard 4 mini-quests.) And the web checkin is still daily, with only 3 days that you can reclaim by visiting certain pages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played Genshin almost since the start (took a break for a while) and it’s had daily tasks the whole time. You earn gems and other in-game rewards every day for it. There’s also an additional web-based daily checkin as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure who needs this advice. The game was designed to be played without it, so that’s good.

  People that need the feature will use it, of course. For whatever reason.

  Everyone else has a choice: Mindless running through the wilds to get where you’re going, sometimes seeing something interesting on the way… Or just letting this thing get you there, without the “follow the white line” minigame.

  The people who are going to use this were already using in-game features to do it as much as possible, but with a manual component that irked them. Asking them not to use it isn’t going to improve their game experience.

  Anyone who roams without the white line isn’t even in this discussion. They would never use this feature, so the advice doesn’t change their mind at all.