>>So many games have recurring "you have to do this every day/week" elements, I imagine that sort of self-filters for the types of games you even play...<<
About half the games I play have time-limited stuff (the same half that have microtransactions). Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who can show up to all of them or even a broad sampling of them, but I just can't. I keep thinking I'll be able to manage popping in for just a minute or two for some small one, but it almost never works out.
(This is why my FR gathering skills *still* aren't maxed out after all this time. I think with the way the math works out, I have *just* enough time to get my remaining gathering achievements before they freeze the current achievement system in mid-August, if I gather every day and keep my dragons fed. I highly doubt I'm actually going to be in phase the whole time, though. I will try to pop in, and *maybe* with the added motivation of the deadline I'll be able to (plus I've stopped raising fodder hatchlings except during contested dom battles, which makes it a lot easier to keep dragons fed because I can just convert stockpiles of everything in advance): we'll see.)
As for holiday events and the like, a lot of players in any decent-sized MMO will miss any given event, so usually devs will make the event system pretty forgiving. Flight Rising makes its event items tradeable so you can buy one secondhand if you show up late; Runescape mostly gives cosmetic unlocks or things that you can already get somewhat slower by regular gameplay (I like to get the cosmetic unlocks when I can, but in practice I'm not going to use them and so won't really be missing much if I don't get one; they're pretty much just trophies); Pokemon Go will run the same event (or one with the same prizes) again at some later point. (My first legendary was Zapdos, and I think I didn't get it until like the third event in which Zapdos was available.) If anything I think Crawl should run *more* events: it's so rare for a Crawl phase to actually coincide with one of their twice-yearly tournaments.
If I ever win a trip to Disney World or something like that, I'll probably be trying very hard to shift into phase with Pokemon Go for it. It'd be nice to try that out: I hear that playing in Florida and especially at Disney is pretty great. (Because of the way Niantic drew the continent boundaries as boxes, most of Florida technically counts as South America for continent-specific-play purposes. And it's equatorial, too, so you can also get *that* exclusive. Plus, as previously mentioned, the Wi-Fi coverage at Disney is amazing.)
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I tend to feel a certain amount of inertia, a reluctance to poke my head into any other game for fear of getting swept up in it. (Which *is* often the result, though not reliably.) The inertia is stronger if my current game has time-limited stuff.
I also find that if circumstances prevent me from playing anything for a couple days, I'll often come back to a different game than when I left.
It's very much possible for me to shift into the same phase I was in before: to feel wavery and not really into anything for a couple days and then end up going back to the same game.
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Date: 2019-06-24 12:36 am (UTC)About half the games I play have time-limited stuff (the same half that have microtransactions). Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who can show up to all of them or even a broad sampling of them, but I just can't. I keep thinking I'll be able to manage popping in for just a minute or two for some small one, but it almost never works out.
(This is why my FR gathering skills *still* aren't maxed out after all this time. I think with the way the math works out, I have *just* enough time to get my remaining gathering achievements before they freeze the current achievement system in mid-August, if I gather every day and keep my dragons fed. I highly doubt I'm actually going to be in phase the whole time, though. I will try to pop in, and *maybe* with the added motivation of the deadline I'll be able to (plus I've stopped raising fodder hatchlings except during contested dom battles, which makes it a lot easier to keep dragons fed because I can just convert stockpiles of everything in advance): we'll see.)
As for holiday events and the like, a lot of players in any decent-sized MMO will miss any given event, so usually devs will make the event system pretty forgiving. Flight Rising makes its event items tradeable so you can buy one secondhand if you show up late; Runescape mostly gives cosmetic unlocks or things that you can already get somewhat slower by regular gameplay (I like to get the cosmetic unlocks when I can, but in practice I'm not going to use them and so won't really be missing much if I don't get one; they're pretty much just trophies); Pokemon Go will run the same event (or one with the same prizes) again at some later point. (My first legendary was Zapdos, and I think I didn't get it until like the third event in which Zapdos was available.) If anything I think Crawl should run *more* events: it's so rare for a Crawl phase to actually coincide with one of their twice-yearly tournaments.
If I ever win a trip to Disney World or something like that, I'll probably be trying very hard to shift into phase with Pokemon Go for it. It'd be nice to try that out: I hear that playing in Florida and especially at Disney is pretty great. (Because of the way Niantic drew the continent boundaries as boxes, most of Florida technically counts as South America for continent-specific-play purposes. And it's equatorial, too, so you can also get *that* exclusive. Plus, as previously mentioned, the Wi-Fi coverage at Disney is amazing.)
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I tend to feel a certain amount of inertia, a reluctance to poke my head into any other game for fear of getting swept up in it. (Which *is* often the result, though not reliably.) The inertia is stronger if my current game has time-limited stuff.
I also find that if circumstances prevent me from playing anything for a couple days, I'll often come back to a different game than when I left.
It's very much possible for me to shift into the same phase I was in before: to feel wavery and not really into anything for a couple days and then end up going back to the same game.