Has FOMO gone too far?

[Huevoasesino-11543]

@Lumin-1385

Now Overwatch and Rivals both have daily tasks, battle passes, events, even limited time comp rewards. I don’t really like that. It feels like my hobby is now a job.

Thats why OW 2 is yet another L conpared to the OG, now everything is maximize profits with FOMO

[xx9-1969]

@AngryPuckmen-1981

I would highly reccomned…

PLAYING SMALLER STUDIO GAMES.

Be it AA, Indie, or whatever game is free on any platform you have access to.

Currently I’m going back through the DS library, and Enjoying a murder mystery puzzle game 999.

You will find a lot to enjoy that isn’t mass marketed.

Sorry, but I’m also not interested in:

• generic survival/crafting game #635253737
• generic TTRPG card game #4242
• generic horror game #425274
• party game of the month, as-seen-on-YouTube

There are good and original indie games out there, but they are also few and far between.

[Huevoasesino-11543]

Ok not indie but Baldurs Gate 3 is pretty good with tons of hours and replayability , mass effect legendarybedition is awesome with an amazing story, there are plenty of great games out there instead of live service games that move nowhere and will jsut one day disappeaf from existance

[Qendel-1288]

In this game? Absolutely. We had a nice customer friendly system that got replaced by a penny pinching store.

[Chowo93-2986]

At first I felt like that but I learned that I shouldn´t stress myself out over it because most of the things which are time-limited are of cosmetic nature.
So I play OW2 when I want to but also have time to do other stuff and even if I would miss out on something because of my schedule, being sick, etc. then it´s only cosmetics so no big deal.
To be precise OW2 is the only live-service AND multi-player game I play right now and the rest are single-player games so I don´t feel that FOMO effect.

[CalciumChief-2418]

Of course it has, it’s a simple fact.

@Lumin-1385

Back when Overwatch was a paid game, I didn’t feel so much pressure to play all the time. I enjoyed playing and I played as much as I wanted. I could take breaks if necessary and return without feeling bad. I didn’t miss out on things because I was sick or had a business trip because events lasted long enough.

The most FOMO back in OW1 were the OWL skins, but that would be 1-2 skins twice a year, maybe, so it was like: “Ah, sure here’s some bucks”. Oh, and they were half the price of an OW1 skin recolor they’re selling now. They did start adding those weekly challenges during events that gave you some epic skin, but hardly anyone cares about epics. Every event item came back a year later at the value of a default equivalent. Now the event legendary skins actually cost more currency than in OW1.
I will never forget how the very first event (Summer Games 2016) was actually the most FOMO thing. You had technically six legendary skins, but three of those were just recolors, and you couldn’t buy anything with credits, you had to roll them out of a lootbox. Then, the very next event, they changed all of that. Each skin was different and you could just use the in-game coins to get the specific skin and, again, they came back next year as a regular item in the gallery. Where’d this Blizzard go?

@Lumin-1385

Now Overwatch and Rivals both have daily tasks, battle passes, events, even limited time comp rewards. I don’t really like that. It feels like my hobby is now a job.

Will you believe there were people actually asking for daily quests. I was always against that, cause that’s what it is - a trap designed to trick you into coming back every single day.

@Lumin-1385

Am I alone here? Does anyone else think that the FOMO and engagement needed is just a bit too much in gaming these days?

No, you are not alone. And the worst part, the rewards you even get for coming back every day are some garbo. I do have a friend to play with daily and these daily challenges give me nothing. Got the battle pass done like a month ago, done with these trash titles and now I’m literally getting nothing for it. It’s good there’s a buffer, so you don’t have to sweat to farm 420 levels, but once you done with that, it’s a nothing-burger.
I’ve said it before - I’d be more willing to pay some $60 to just get all the current and future items (other than other IPs crossovers, I guess) than this $20 for a recolor of a skin from 2017.

[NerfThis-11137]

I want to watch the whole live service crap burn to ground someday.

It’s so dumb that we are paying for skins that used to be free through modding.

All it took was for that one console peasant to click buy on that horse armor.

They descended like vultures from then on.

How Games Are Ruining Modding (And Themselves)

[grgr-21844]

i’ve never cared about the dailies and such, if a game would feel like work i’d stop playing it. like most mmorpgs do.

i play ow just because i enjoy the game itself, all the dailies and such i dont pay any attention. If i happen to play enough to get something, cool i guess, but ill just play if i enjoy the game, not for the sake of something extra.

A lot of all this is just a mindset I suppose. Some people play just to do dailies and whatever and others just play the game for itself.
As long as the game doesnt force people to do dailies or similar for some “actual” benefit in the game itself, i dont care much.

But anyways the ow1 model was more favorable for consumers.

[Skund-2376]

The FOMO pressure actually has the opposite effect on me.
I had FOMO in OW, wanted to get all the stuff through lootboxes and coins and in all fairness I nearly got everything.

OW2 whole system is not appealing to me. The shop, the seasonal achievements, the event titles and co, the battlepass, it is just too much.
You could say I lost the touch and I don’t give a damn anymore

[H1st0ry-2750]

@Lumin-1385

Does anyone else feel like the entire business model of live service games keeps you from really exploring all the amazing single player experiences that there are? I work. I have a family. My free time is limited.

Not really, no. There are two types of gamers. People who like multiplayer games and people who like singleplayer games.

Do you play any other multiplayer games? If not, then maybe, its time to quit OW and just focus on a more relaxing experience. You dont need skins or cosmetics in a PvP game to have fun. Its not stat enhancing. If you have a skin for a hero, do you REALLY need another one? Especially in OW. Try indie titles that are complete games and enjoy the time. OW is not what you really want to play if you care about cosmetics and getting everything that in the game to get. Rivals is much better, but if your time is really that limited, quite multiplayer live service games.

@Lumin-1385

Back when Overwatch was a paid game, I didn’t feel so much pressure to play all the time. I enjoyed playing and I played as much as I wanted. I could take breaks if necessary and return without feeling bad. I didn’t miss out on things because I was sick or had a business trip because events lasted long enough.

It has more something to do with OW1 being crazy slow on any kind of content. Play any other game and you would see how OW was just… strange how it was build.

@Lumin-1385

Now Overwatch and Rivals both have daily tasks, battle passes, events, even limited time comp rewards. I don’t really like that. It feels like my hobby is now a job.

Play one game or both games, but prioritize gameplay and not rewards. There is a reason why many people only play ONE game where they want to put their time into. Personally I concentrate on Rivals and ignore OW completely. This is one of the reasons the “just play both games” people dont understand. I work also full time, but dont have a family on the side. If I had, I would quit something like OW completely, because its not worth it to play a few hours a week. There are other games that are much better for that kind of limited timeframe.

@Lumin-1385

Am I alone here? Does anyone else think that the FOMO and engagement needed is just a bit too much in gaming these days?

You are not, but you are in the wrong spot for sympathy. People in OW as in Rivals want to work towards something cool and exiting and that takes time. You can speed up the process with money if you want, but thats not the main way to process things.

In general if you have only a select amount of time availabe, then something like Ricals or OW, is not your type of game. Play single player games, where you decide how fast you do things or some slower coop games like Warframe, where they give you a LOT of time to complete tasks, rerun special stuff frequently and mainly add stuff without any kind of FOMO involved.

TLDR: Rivals and OW are PvP games with people who WANT special stuff and their time rewarded. Maybe try other games if you dont want to miss out on anything, with very limited playtime, but not the will to spend money. Try to quit multiplayer games and focus on singleplayer games. People with limited time cant be both.

[Stote-11416]

@Lumin-1385

I work. I have a family. My free time is limited.

Now Overwatch and Rivals both have daily tasks, battle passes, events, even limited time comp rewards. I don’t really like that. It feels like my hobby is now a job.

Theres 2 kind of people in here:

1. People without a job which spend 5-15 hours a day playing the game aka grinding farming etc without having any headache towards getting all the stuff the game has to offer (aka 40 sprays no one uses)

2. People with 2 jobs, 3 kids, spending 18 hours per day doing RL stuff trying to play the video game for 30 min but cant play for long enough which leads to what they want:
   You grind and farm in RL instead and they want you to spend all your sweaty and hardworked money into the game to get all of the sprays instantly AMAGAD.

If you feel pressured to grind everything, that means youre a collector, another Blizzard’s target. Just drop the ball and put other things more important to you as a goal instead.

In OW, matches nowadays barely last more than 5 minuts cuz its either stomp or get stomped situation, if you play 4 matches per day you can easily finish any event they give it to us. Now if you lack time and yet wanna farm 5 games everyday then thats on you.

[Kohanis-2429]

Wow, when I used to say here that all this is FOMO and terrible, most told me that there is no FOMO and small indie company really needs money)

[Bukkit-2956]

if you fear missing out on BP cosmetics… there’s FOMO for sure…

but seeing there’s more payed cosmetics i’m missing out on (not going to pay that kinda money for a skin as i have all the OW1 ones) and i don’t realy care for skins anyway (doesn’t add anything to my enjoyment of the game)

so, no… there’s seasons in OW2 i completely ignored (just didn’t play and was playing other stuff)

FOMO is a fundemental part of live service games (makes people want to spend money because FOMO) stopped caring a long time ago (probably when these kind of practices started and i noticed they tried to milk money through FOMO)
*edit
yes, it went to far the moment they started using this…

[Applesoup-1346]

@MeiRa-22568

Daily tasks exist entirely to farm engagement and make one feel like they ‘must’ login in order to complete them. This type of thing was never implemented to help any type of player.

More people playing the game literally helps ALL “types” of players.

@CalciumChief-2418

Will you believe there were people actually asking for daily quests. I was always against that, cause that’s what it is - a trap designed to trick you into coming back every single day.

Some people actually do like grinding things to feel like they “achieved” something (even though they didn’t really). That’s why MMO’s, and “achievements” in games are so popular. Even if it sounds silly to me and maybe to you also, it is what it is. If they feel rewarded every day, they like that, which, makes sense, I guess.

[Lumin-1385]

@Kohanis-2429

Wow, when I used to say here that all this is FOMO and terrible, most told me that there is no FOMO and small indie company really needs money)

I feel like I’m still seeing a lot of this mentality in this thread.

[Elixo-21178]

I play the game for fun only playing nothing but mystery heroes and Tank (cos I main Doomfist) and keep reaching level 200 on every battlepass without meaning to. Right now is the only time I’m truly grinding cos I want to get the 5000 points and max out the comp signature/drive. After that wait back to playing for fun until end of next season where I grind comp again (Only play competitive when there’s the drive event. Which is why I have 400 hrs on comp but 2.8k combined for arcade and qp)

[blitzcloud-2996]

this is a self-imposed thing. You don’t need to do anything.

[Sameras-1725]

The root cause of your angst and ‘feeling so much pressure to play all the time’ stems entirely from caring too much about cosmetic tat

[AngryPuckmen-1981]

@xx9-1969

There are good and original indie games out there, but they are also few and far between.

Oh their are loaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaads of great games out their, it’s just not a lot of it is goign to be outright marketed to you.

What you mentioned is pretty much youtube kids stuff.

Cassette Beast, Fear and Hunger, Neon White, BattleCore Robots, Bit Catch Table box, Cross Code, Demon turf, Hollow knight, Disgeae 1~4 or 7, Zero Escape series, Ghost trick, Nightmare Kart, Spark 1~3, Phantom Brave, blood stained Ritual of the night.

And that’s just what’s int my steam library.

I’m sure something in their peak your interests.

[Bukkit-2956]

@xx9-1969

There are good and original indie games out there, but they are also few and far between

steam’s algorithm does a good job at showing you the games you like (just like facebook adds know what you’re thinking)