Hey everyone. Which game is there that you should stop playing immediately, for different reasons. Like, it costs too much money, time, nerves ─ or a combination of all these three things.
I'll go first with an example: Some of you might know the game World of Warships, a semi-MMO pvp-focused warship battler with a rather small but dedicated community. I've actually played the game since Beta and there was a time, mostly on weekends, when I easily put literally dozens of hours into it. So much so that my investment started to show some negative side effects, like it is the case with many pvp games. Highs are great and unforgettable but lows just hurt and lead to bad temper, swearing etc. My gf always hated it when I played that game and after 9k battles or so, I actually hated it myself as well. The community was overly toxic, but not in a way that LoL might be. Many players are rather mature, old even, and the "I hope you get cancer" crowd is much smaller there. Instead they don't understand the game mechanics good enough, rush head first into a match, often times dying 4 mins after the 20 Minutes match had started, in a game that is way more laid back and slowed down than your average pvp shooter. Once they die, everybody else is to blame, gets called noobs, apes and whatnot. These possible have a winrate of under 50% and are resistant to any kind of feedback because they are like 45 yrs old dudes, and "you don't tell me what to do or think".
I remember getting so upset by this kind of behavior that I in turn started to get angry, which is comepletely dumb. Well, long story short, I deleted my account, with hundreds of ships in port, just so I finally let go of this game. Well.. addictions come and go and when I noticed that the game is also available on Steam, I just thought to myself "well, a couple of matches here and there. What could go wrong?" Everything, I guess? :D One quick download and I could see the patterns again. I'm not back to where I was a couple of years ago but I'm aware that my time would be much better spend with other games, not to mention the greedy fomo tactics and balancing issues that come with a 10 years old live-service title. I just couldn't find a suitable offline replacement and let's face it: blowing up other people is more fun than finishing off AI.
If it wasn't ships, I would have moved on without any second thought. Like, I remember having spent around 300 hours in CoD MW3 multiplayer and, at one point, I just stopped playing it, dropped the game, and since then never really played any CoD at all. Since I grew up near the sea, always living in a city with a big harbour, I'm a sucker for ships :D
Anyways, long text to say won't stop any time soon but at least it's only 3-4 matches ─ instead of hours ─ every second day or so now.
So, let's hear your about your addictions :D
I'll go first with an example: Some of you might know the game World of Warships, a semi-MMO pvp-focused warship battler with a rather small but dedicated community. I've actually played the game since Beta and there was a time, mostly on weekends, when I easily put literally dozens of hours into it. So much so that my investment started to show some negative side effects, like it is the case with many pvp games. Highs are great and unforgettable but lows just hurt and lead to bad temper, swearing etc. My gf always hated it when I played that game and after 9k battles or so, I actually hated it myself as well. The community was overly toxic, but not in a way that LoL might be. Many players are rather mature, old even, and the "I hope you get cancer" crowd is much smaller there. Instead they don't understand the game mechanics good enough, rush head first into a match, often times dying 4 mins after the 20 Minutes match had started, in a game that is way more laid back and slowed down than your average pvp shooter. Once they die, everybody else is to blame, gets called noobs, apes and whatnot. These possible have a winrate of under 50% and are resistant to any kind of feedback because they are like 45 yrs old dudes, and "you don't tell me what to do or think".
I remember getting so upset by this kind of behavior that I in turn started to get angry, which is comepletely dumb. Well, long story short, I deleted my account, with hundreds of ships in port, just so I finally let go of this game. Well.. addictions come and go and when I noticed that the game is also available on Steam, I just thought to myself "well, a couple of matches here and there. What could go wrong?" Everything, I guess? :D One quick download and I could see the patterns again. I'm not back to where I was a couple of years ago but I'm aware that my time would be much better spend with other games, not to mention the greedy fomo tactics and balancing issues that come with a 10 years old live-service title. I just couldn't find a suitable offline replacement and let's face it: blowing up other people is more fun than finishing off AI.
If it wasn't ships, I would have moved on without any second thought. Like, I remember having spent around 300 hours in CoD MW3 multiplayer and, at one point, I just stopped playing it, dropped the game, and since then never really played any CoD at all. Since I grew up near the sea, always living in a city with a big harbour, I'm a sucker for ships :D
Anyways, long text to say won't stop any time soon but at least it's only 3-4 matches ─ instead of hours ─ every second day or so now.
So, let's hear your about your addictions :D
