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?
Fucking Ark. I have a major love-hate relationship with that game.
This review visualizes it well.
I love ARK so much, it is an amazing game when you customise your own server and play with friends only.
Just … don’t join any public server where the admin is a 17 yo who makes up weird rules like every woman has to join his harem or no one is allowed to ride a bigger dino than his. ( ´ ▽ ` )
Just bought it lol
Just in case you’re out of the loop and it’s relevant to you: they’re remaking Ark in Unreal 5 and going to be shutting down official servers for “old” ark within the next few months. And then it looks like you might have to pay for everything all over again. At the very least the base game already seems to have a set price.
Yeah that post was what I thought of when I asked this question. I don’t have THAT many hours in Eve, but oh boy did I waste so much time in eve.
Is that screenshot from this year? ARK came out 2015, so if this person had 2 years of playtime in 2020, then they basically spent 40% of their time every day playing this game. That’s 9.6 hours every day!
Or they left it on while they were doing other things.
I hope so! Otherwise that statistic makes me a bit sad. I mean, I love playing games, but spending basically all your free time on a single game for 5 years straight?
(warning: link to reddit) - the thread is ~3 years old, so it sounds like your rough calculations are correct.
I’m just a filthy casual, so I never had the skills to tame high level dinos and stuff, but this game was still such a time suck! And so frustrating yet addictive.
every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction
I feel this so much. I wasn’t sure if I would answer Ark or The Sims 4. I have my own personal Ark server because I don’t like the timers on official, housing or dino. I have other things I need to do besides watch a downed dino for 20hrs. I don’t want to rely on tribe member dinojoe to help me either. But my goodness I love playing Ark. 😕 I stopped recommending it several years ago. But I still play it myself. 🤔
Elite: Dangerous.
If you want to enjoy it, you need to go in with lowered expectations and a certain frame of mine, lest you go mad grinding materials.
Oooh yes. I cannot even explain why I’m hooked. The first obstacle new players have to overcome are the absolutely insane default key/mouse bindings.
I was really disappointed with this one. I tried it out per a friend’s recommendation after they heard I was playing a freeware space flight simulator (Orbiter, which I do actually recommend).
I feel like most people will name salt inducing multiplayer games. So I will too. Overwatch
OW1 was good value. OW2 is dog shit you pay to gild.
I loved being able to play Overwatch casually with friends whenever we felt like it, which was usually like a few times a month or so. I’m very sad about the OW2 situation :(
i used to play clash royale, it is a massive credit card grab and a mental health nightmare
SWTOR
I’ve put at least 2000 hours into this game and completed all the endgame PvE content including an NA first/world second raid achievement and made a lot of friends in the game.
It’s still a shit game with barely any new content and now Bioware has pawned off the game to some company called Broadsword that looks like it specializes in taking over dead MMORPGs
I enjoyed that game as a mostly solo casual from launch up until about KotFE/KotET. When they condensed stats and made a bunch of class changes that kind of erased what made classes unique I never had as much fun. After that I would pop in every few months, run through a class story again and then get bored.
I gave up on it fully when I realized the 10th anniversary stuff they hyped up just never really came to be.
Man KotFE was such a disaster of an expansion. They put in so much marketing and built up so much hype for the story at the expense of every other part of the game. Then it comes out and the story is bland and the PvEers and PvPers have no reason to stay subscribed.
Oh god and don’t get me started on the 10 year anniversary. Justice4R4
It really was. They tried to make an MMO into a single player game and really misunderstood why people play. And the story was pretty lame too, “Keeping Up with the Valkorians” and making every player character the man of the hour just didn’t work well. At all.
I mean the writing was on the wall like a month after launch. How did you not quit back then?
It was fun to dominate Hutball for like 2 weeks and… that was basically it…
I actually stopped playing a couple months after launch and only after it became F2P in 2.0 that I played it sporadically every now and then to get a few levels. It took from release to 2014 for me to actually get one max level character lol
After I got to level cap I dipped my toes into raiding and cleared what endgame content I could but stopped playing again in 4.0 when they didn’t release any new raids for the expansion. Then any time they release a new raid I’d pick the game back up again and hit up my old guildies to rejoin me
I remember having a ton of fun leveling up my first toon. It was a sith juggernaut I think? Had a cool thing where you could recruit a jedi woman to join you either by being so evil you corrupt her, or so good she decides she’d rather be with a good guy working in an openly evil society than a villain in one that always espoused goodness. I thought that was super cool.
End game was awful, then the next expansion they utterly broke the companion system which was my favorite thing about the game.
Sooo… yeah.
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I’ve spent way too much hours in Fall Out 3 and NV. I love those games but I would glady take back a few dozens hours,
Earth 2025. I don’t think it’s even around anymore. It evolved from the BRE BBS game.
Inkbound is… disappointing.
I played the demo and it was pretty solid. It’s an isometric, turn based strategy roguelike, with multiplayer support and some competitive features. I was initially planning to buy it on release.
But the price at launch was a bit higher than it would be for a no-brainer purchase, and playing requires constant online connectivity, despite supporting singleplayer play, AND came with a cosmetic battlepass out the gate.
I found it ridiculous that the game couldn’t even support offline play before pushing a battlepass. Cosmetic only or no, this game is missing important functions and ultimately put me off getting a paid PC game that hasn’t even gotten it’s shit together before shilling their microtransactions. Smh.
I don’t know if I can call it garbage but probably no one in their right mind should play Hearts of Iron IV. Somehow I managed to persist through hours of bewilderment and confusion, until it all clicked, and I soon found myself unhealthily obsessed and unable to rest peacefully until glorious France had swept across half of the globe
Well that’s just a Paradox game.
It took me about 40 hours of jumping between playing, videos, and guides before I was functional at CK2 but I loved that game. I’ve got over 1000 hours in CK2/3 and Stellaris. As much as I love them I can easily see why a lot of people hate Paradox grand strategy games.
Ahh Paradox games.
I love those games, everyone should play those games.
They make you miserable. But the pure sandbox jank is so fun! 00
You have to be a bit of a masochist to love Paradox which might be why I love Dwarf Fortress too.
Hah yeah I can’t recommend Dwarf Fotress.
I can recommend Stellaris though, all the cool events, all the new features you learn, learning all the techs, meeting the fallen empire for the first time, your first crisis, first time meeting exterminators. All very magical.
Trying to become a try hard map painter is a path of ruin and frustration with every single mechanic.
Temtem.
Extremely predatory design that tries damn hard to force you into micro transactions. And once you do, you have to spend so many hours to get what you already payed for. On top of that, the endgame is almost a completely different game with a different target audience than the rest of it. I regret all the money and time I wasted on it. Had to hide it in my steam library to get myself to stop as well. That kind of predatory shit should be illegal imo.
Stay away from that game, especially if you have any past issues with impulse, micro transactions, and/or addictive tendencies.
Bro go play Nexomon extinction. It’s a really good single player mon game. Best I’ve found. Really funny story, cool monsters, and SO many good quality of life changes pokemon should have implemented a decade ago.
EDIT: Oh and NO microtransactions if you play on switch/PC. The microtransactions on mobile are pointless and make no sense, so don’t play on mobile.
I just play the DBZ Pokemon romhack for GBA. It’s hilarious.
Ugh, thats why it was on humble choice?
I have owned temtem for a few years and I haven’t spent a dime beyond the initial purchase. I enjoy the more modern Pokemon type experience but I haven’t played in about a year due to work and other interests. I had no idea ait had become so transaction focused.
Ah, oof… I just picked it up with the Humble Choice. Thanks for the heads up that it’s filled with microtransactions :(
Idleon - The Idle MMO. The dev billed himself as a non-predatory mobile dev; premium currency could be reasonably earned for free. I was happy to support the dev by buying seasonal bundles. Then he started adding stuff that had to be purchased directly with money. Then he implemented FOMO with rotating bonuses. This guy makes millions a year and rants on Twitch streams about having to pay too much taxes.
Recently, he added a gacha system with a separate premium currency that cannot be earned for free so that the very few players who are running a hacked version of the game can’t pull the best equipment. F2P players get one pull a week and will statistically likely pull the best bonus in 1-3 years, but there are already plans to add more bonuses and rotate out existing ones.
This was right after another controversial incident when many players exploited an infinite currency bug which was predicted and could have been removed well in advance. Historically, the attitude was “you guys had your fun” and he removes the bug with no punishment to players. This time, he went into full meltdown mode, posting walls of text on discord with screenshots of Steam reviews that hurt his feelings, then reset a bunch of exploiters’ skill - not just rolled back but reset to remove months of progress.
He’s recently removed a statement from the Steam page that stated mobile game developers don’t have to be predatory, so at least he’s self aware I guess? Steam reviews were very positive; recent reviews are mostly negative. He’s responded by offering a concession that the best bonus is guaranteed after 200 pulls, which equates to 3.8 years if you’re F2P.
I haven’t quit the game yet, but I’m pretty close. My wallet is closed for sure.
Mordhau. Terrible toxic community, developers that cater only to the super hard core players. Content droughts… Yet I somehow stuck 500+ hours on it. Playing the lute was nice though.
The Genesis Young Indiana Jones game. Played it a lot when I was a kid, because I owned very few games. Got so good at it I was able to beat the whole thing without dying. I loved that game.
Then a few days ago, James Rolfe played it in the latest AVGN episode and holy cow that game is absolute garbage. For the curious, you can check it out from 18:34: https://youtu.be/xPsN_rcEpu4
Stellaris. I can’t recommend it anymore due to how fragmented the game mechanics have become due to the dlc model
