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I saw the title, and have absolutely NO idea what the analogy is. It’s lost on me.
However, I immediately started craving a sweet red bean bun, and a little soju.
Don’t most Korean rpgs hinge on cash shop lotto styled items?
I definitely appreciate a good old-fashioned grind, but the thing about Korean games is they also come with atrocious monetization to get around said grind. Be careful what you wish for
that is what it is isn’t it? blizzard doesn’t want people making a bunch of gold crafting and then vendoring gear - they have nerfed that every time it accidently happens
Yet somehow relentless grinding, well, grinds away my enthusiasm. It happened when I tried classic, and it’s happening now in TBC. I started in TBC, took all expansion to cap one character after several false starts (as a noob leveling would become so tedious I’d get bored of what I was playing and rather level another character through the quicker levels than proceed to cap). And once I capped, no one would take me on anything in quest greens.
I think when I was younger I was more tolerant of grinds. I mean, I did play EQ for a couple months (and left that because my college schedule meant no groups in the middle of the night, the only time I could play, and trying to solo in that game literally meant you’d usually lose your entire evening’s worth of xp dying then dying again running for your corpse).
Nowadays if I don’t feel at least some vague sense of accomplishment, even if it’s just a level, at least roughly once an hour, as I said, enthusiasm fades. I don’t even know how I got my vanilla character into the 30’s other than I did a lot of boost dungeon runs with a mage who’s attitude gave me eye cancer, so that wasn’t even fun. I did boost a character but I’m actually having more fun (some, not a lot) around silvermoon on a 13 blood elf mage than going straight to outland on my druid.
Maybe it’s my age, but I feel like I’m pissing my life away if I play too much. I’d prefer to get things done and only play in brief bursts. Yeah yeah, I should probably give up MMOs, but practically every other type of video game is beyond my now rather feeble coordination. Spent some stim on a 3DS so I could play on the go and 10 games in couldn’t find anything that I was even remotely proficient at. Buyers remorse like a . . . well you know.
Go play Aion Classic.
oh but then someone would drop in a wifi cafe again, we can’t have that on blizzard’s conscience
some of the best times ive had in a mmorpg were open world questing pre-legion content. BFA and Legion both had a huge…HUGE amount of questing but it was…different than before. More tedious, more time gates ect.
The grind is what makes the endgame a satisfying goal. Yeah it can suck at times but i think the game works far better with it, than what is in now.
Id rather have a grind then a non grind made into a huge grind because i can only farm 1% of the items per day and if i miss a day thats one day later ill get the item.
This is exactly what happens.
I grinded stacks and stacks of ore for sale to buy my sky golem when it first dropped.
That was many hours of tedium.
However in bfa I did grind something like 20k trash kills trying to farm goldenmane mount. That was kinda fun, making groups, chatting rubbish and just slaughtering waves and waves of mobs
I miss world pvp objectives that you worked together with your faction to accomplish. Not this attack your own team stuff
No opinions on grind
They did. It’s called “Classic”.