• Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      6 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
        8·
        6 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.

    • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      6 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.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 months ago

        That’s usually how it goes. The trick is remembering the addiction trading isn’t a one time event.

  • doofy77@aussie.zone
    871·
    6 months ago

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

    • palebluethought@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      6 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
        20·
        6 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.xyzEnglish
        15·
        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.

      • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        6 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.

      • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 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

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 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.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        21·
        6 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.

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
          3·
          6 months 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·
      6 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
        51·
        6 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.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          Good rewards for it too. On a few month hiatus from ffxiv but the roulette system really is fantastic.

  • sazey@lemmy.world
    25·
    6 months ago

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

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
    221·
    6 months ago

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

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    6 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

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    122·
    6 months ago

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

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 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.