I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.

Do you have a similar game?

  • @HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip
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    21 year ago

    It would be possible I think, but corporate greed is a thing.

    Like if it was $10 a year to get everything, maybe with a slow free to play option.

    But there is also a certain addictiveness of cards actually being rare and getting a rush when opening something cool. I don’t know how you get that without limiting content and user experimentation, which is where most the fun comes from.

    • @Rannoch@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      That makes sense. I agree that opening card packs and whatnot was part of the excitement and draw. I wonder if there’s a way to get the best of both worlds. Maybe a (one-time) paid game rather than free to play, and still have packs and rarity and whatnot, but lock packs behind game experience/quests/challenges/winning/etc, rather than having them available to buy.

      I know that probably wouldn’t be a popular model for companies trying to wring out as much money as possible from the almost-basically-gambling model where you can buy packs, but I feel like as a player I’d like that a lot more!