Re: Coming soon to gaming: rewards for playing

On 30/01/2025 15:06, Justisaur wrote:

On 1/29/2025 12:20 AM, JAB wrote:

On 28/01/2025 17:25, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Which just makes me sad for where our hobby is going. Remember when
just  ENJOYING the game was enough to keep us playing? Or when we got
games that were PROGRAMMED to be enjoyable? Now it's all about the
bottom line, and rewards-based strategies like the above are only
going to make our games more predacious and tedious as they struggle
to claw back the cost of those rewards.

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I've said it many times but one of my biggest gripes is the number of games where the model off give us money as you'll enjoy playing this game has been replaced by we'll use ever trick in the book for 'player engagement' even if you're not really enjoying it that much. Oh you don't feel like playing today, well you wouldn't want to miss out on the daily rewards would you. That battle pass you just bought, it would be a shame to waste it.

 At least there are companies that don't do that still that do very well such as Fromsoft, Larian, CDPR being most notable to me.  We'll see how long that lasts.
 

Something I recently saw in World of Tanks is that a tech. tree tank (one you can just grind for free) that was removed from the game a few years ago as it was generally detrimental to the gameplay has been re-released as a auction reward tank (limited number, I think 3,000, which players then bid on). The starting bid price was a very reasonable £250!
Now of course the players were up in arms about this and organised a mass boycott of the event. Of course not, they all got snapped up in less than ten minutes.