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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Coming soon to gaming: rewards for playing
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:51:58 +0000
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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.
>>
>> 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 game has been replaced by we'll use ever trick in the book for 'player 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.