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Tyranthraxus posted...

No I'm saying basically the opposite. Find a way to do things with what you have now instead of grinding. Or alternatively play a game that doesn't even have grinding in the first place. There's lots of games where as soon as you get a new shiny thing it can be maxed out in just a few minutes because the focus is on composition and strategy and not time gates or pay walls.

Is that fun?
I was pretty quick to hit reset on a Binding of Isaac run if the first two floors are no good. There were times you couldn't pay me to continue a run that tried to give me a bad active item early or curse of the maze/lost on a large floor.

This really sounds like making excuses on the game's behalf while turning a blind eye to the whales who're probably enjoying the game in their own warped way. Like getting a bad Isaac run almost every time and going "Haha I'm excited to do things the tedious way in this game that really just wishes I'd hurry up and capitulate to the microtransactions."
Except Isaac didn't have microtransactions so it felt more like it was just unforgiving rather than trying to exploit me.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Depends on the game / person.

Maybe someone really likes the story even if the game is mediocre. Maybe the game is f***ing fantastic but they're poor and can't afford a console or mtx and all they have is a s***ty phone but the game and discord community is free. Or maybe the game has some kind of appeal to nostalgia like Fire Emblem.

Story's an even weirder excuse to stick with a game like that. I sort of understand though, I really liked Xenoblade 1's story but had to accept that the game just wasn't replay-friendly after trying to come up with ways to rejuvenate it for over a year.

I feel like if the game was free and the playerbase was mostly discord users, that would be a very bad sign. Discord in my experience was mostly whatever's trendy getting reposted, people self-advertising and a big fascination with reaction repetitive images/gifs. That's the sort of thing I'd like to avoid.

As for nostalgia, I definitely get that. When I think of nostalgia I think more of the time period and circumstances that games I liked flourished in, something the game's name value can't offer me years after the fact. I don't really understand seeing a franchise you like and giddily following it down the path to microtransactions and addiction because you used to enjoy it.