Activision Blizzard is a hellhole of a workplace owned by Bobby "Satan" Kotick. They have been sued and settled multiple times for toxic work culture and serious sexual harassment allegations. Blizzard want to charge me $20 to be able to play the game one week early. The game is $70, and can go as expensive as $100 with battlepass. There will be ingame monetization. The game is MMO-lite and basically a grindy slot machine.

All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens, and you'd be surprised there is literally not that many games that allow us to do so.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Spend most of your life playing games and you start to notice trends while your threshold for bullshit like "Why do I have to run everywhere when I have 2 hours in the evening to play this" is much lower. I was playing Torchlight 2 recently with an overhaul mod that absolutely vomits loot everywhere and the sheer amount of it rapidly killed any enthusiasm I had to continue.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Skinner figured out that if you give the rat too many or too few rewards it loses interest. You've got to hit the right tempo of rewards, without being too predictable, to get that really maladjusted addiction loop going.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        You could say that about a lot of things tbh :shrug-outta-hecks: While not unique to the hobby, people start to hit a wall after a certain point where vidja games provide increasingly sparse returns in dopamine and serotonin and it's just more glaring when you see the bullshit that developers shove into their products or rip from other franchises. Had a friend that urged me to play Horizon Zero Dawn and I got maybe 20 hours into it and realized that I had essentially already played this game multiple times and didn't need to go through Far Cry 3 but with robot dinosaurs again.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Ngl it comes across as a little condescending when you state that you've already grown bored of something so therefore other people need to move on as well. I have branched out to other activities like gardening but I never seem to hear "No one is meant to grow so much. You need to move on from plants."