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How many games do you maintain?
d_20
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I don't mean "play" necessarily, but log into regularly.
In my case, since I'm having fun with some real life projects, my solid blocks of gaming time are way down. I do take a rest for 30 minutes or an hour here and there and I like to log in to a few things.
Tier 1 (daily)
ESO - Feed horses, collect mail, open some chests, and if really ambitious crafting dailies
GW2 - Get daily login gift, do the daily quests, maybe do one story quest
Tier 2 (2-3 times a week)
WoW - Log in, look at the character screen to figure out which one I want to play, log out
Destiny 2 - Go to planet for 1-2 patrols or a public event
The Division - Run around base, pick up stuff, see what appearance vendor has, maybe kill an HVT or do a solo instance
In my case, since I'm having fun with some real life projects, my solid blocks of gaming time are way down. I do take a rest for 30 minutes or an hour here and there and I like to log in to a few things.
Tier 1 (daily)
ESO - Feed horses, collect mail, open some chests, and if really ambitious crafting dailies
GW2 - Get daily login gift, do the daily quests, maybe do one story quest
Tier 2 (2-3 times a week)
WoW - Log in, look at the character screen to figure out which one I want to play, log out
Destiny 2 - Go to planet for 1-2 patrols or a public event
The Division - Run around base, pick up stuff, see what appearance vendor has, maybe kill an HVT or do a solo instance
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Now...not much. Battlerite here and there.
Nothing feels worth playing for me currently.
I'm not really interested in maintaining anything. I didn't realize this was a thing.
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On the other, Picard's "player enslavement" is a fitting term of the present f2p era's daily login crave, and I ain't part of it either.
I only play, when a) have the free time and b) have the mood. I don't even "make" time for playing, I guess I'm simply too old for that
That said, I play my main games fairly often, while hopping around them. The rest, I only update and log in, when I'm in the mood for some play. I don't update those just for the sake of being updated...
I admit, I found your list strange, OP. When I log in to any of my games (whether mains or not), I do it for playing, and to have some chat with the friends in there. This laid-out plan, or programme of:
"ESO - Feed horses, collect mail, open some chests, and if really ambitious crafting dailies
GW2 - Get daily login gift, do the daily quests, maybe do one story quest"
sounds more like a chore to me, and not as something fun. But to each their own, as they say. I never really cared about doing dailies...
(except festival activities, if those are on daily cooldown and as such, count as dailies
No, seriously, I play one game at a time and I go all in, only that game until I'm "done" with it.
Thought it was just a MMO thing with me, but no, recently tried Fallout NV, 2.5 months and 275+ hours later (1 character, main game and 4 expansions) I decided this weekend I'd reached "the end"
Sure, I could try another build, install mods, and or try speed running the story or run on DIAF mode, all things I've read other players doing, but no, I'm pretty sure its over and likely will never revisit.
So just starting Pillars of Eternity, and will be playing it exclusively until I decide its over. Again, I've read about people replaying this game, in POTD mode, or with a different main character or party build or compositions or solo even.... but why?
My backlog title list is over 50, will likely take me years to complete them all.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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@Po_gg For me it's a diverting break.
My RL work gives me a lot of freedom. I basically do what I want all day, but it requires creative energy, making my own plans and schedules, etc. So I find it kind of comforting to have a little checklist of things to do when I just want to take a break. I live in huge crowded city, so it's not like I can just go take a walk on the beach, unfortunately. And I don't watch TV.
So I just log in to games that I have enjoyed and like and may want to go back to. I find it relaxing to take care of those little things that all together take me less than an hour to do before I go back my work and personal projects.
It's funny and interesting how people can see the same things so differently, though.
The two most played at this time are SWL and Trove.
Personally I don't log into games I don't find fun. However, I do log into some games that I find fun that I'm not currently actively playing so I have the related benefits upon my return.
That being said, none of those logins require chores of any kind.
But since I don't, a similar checklist (compared with what Picard said above) feels more like a chore, something which urges me to do a set of activities, regardless of the mood.
Simply because I have just a limited time to play, I want to spend it while having fun, and I don't want the game to define my free time. For example, I remember a couple years ago I was pretty vocal against the STO winter event changes (if Picard, STO is a fitting example
And while I love STO, and love the festival, and the daily was actually fun... still, the mandatory login every day is not something I tolerate even from my favourite games. It's a very bad practice, and it's turned almost into the norm nowadays.
(edit: I understand it from the dev's point of view, with the sub gone their two most used indicators are registered count and daily login count. But as a player I'm against it. I don't play when the devs say to me, I play when I want to play. Easy as that. They can make suggestions in a form of festivals
When I'm in a PvP mood, I play AO. When I'm in a PvE mood, I play ESO. I keep GW2 for when I feel like playing something different, which isn't often.
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wow .. only THREE games?
You must be one of those "i love this tree, and forget the whole forest" kind of guy. Personally, i have a ton of Steam & Origin games in my library and i will play whatever i fancy at the moment.
For me, there is no point playing a small number of games when there are so much entertainment out there.
But with games I'm a completionist, so while games don't make you do dailies or holiday events it annoys me to no end when limited time content is included in a MMO.
EVE started doing it in recent years, stupid pirate events with cool prizes, but only if you do the in the next 3 weeks.....scowl. I can't even stand bonus experience weekends...
One of the main reasons I quit GW2 very quickly was the daily presentation of activities which I felt "compelled" to do or I wasn't being efficient as possible. (Can't have that now.)
So I'm happier now never playing MMOs with those mechanics these days, which probably helps explain why I haven't played a newer one in several years.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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The exception have been when I played one game for PvE and one for Pv (like GW and EQ way back).
Right now I play GW2: PoF and assume I will continue at least for a couple of months.
I'll do more than one game at a time though. I always have a phone game that I'll use to kill downtime (usually while I'm using the restroom or waiting on someone) and I might do some very low time investment games such as Nation States on the side.
I might also play a single player game, MOBA, FPS or RTS on the side of an MMO though I play those games the most between MMOs.