Is the game still worth it?

Hail_Fire147Hail_Fire147 Member Posts: 30 ★
edited February 2023 in General Discussion
I'm thinking about uninstalling the game. It's honestly become more of a chore in the last couple of years, and I don't have as much free time as I used to. I just want to know if anyone else is in the same boat.

Maybe if they could fix auto-play so that it doesn't skip any dialogue, that might change my mind. Or if they added an actual search bar or something in the champion menu rather than just filters.

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  • PikoluPikolu Member, Guardian Posts: 7,998 Guardian
    The game is worth it if you take it at your own pace. If you aren't having fun, then maybe you should take a step back from the game and figure out what it is you don't like. If the answer happens to be AQ, then maybe you should go to a retired alliance where AQ is optional so you just do 1 fight per week to still gain some rewards, or just not be in an alliance and take the game at your own speed.
  • CaptainaidenCaptainaiden Member Posts: 1,091 ★★★★
    yes the game still worth it

    and bye
  • PantherusNZPantherusNZ Member Posts: 2,264 ★★★★★
    I felt this way nearly 2 years ago, and left the game for that time. I have returned about a month or so ago and am playing the game very differently - I'm in a retired alliance with optional AQ (and that AQ is a single BG doing a boss rush) and AW, and no requirements for events. I don't explore any EQ difficulty, just do a single completion run of them all. I do as much or as little Arena as I feel like.

    I'm enjoying the game more than I had in several years because all of that pressure is gone.

    You have to accept SIGNIFICANTLY lower rewards, sure, but that's the trade-off for not spending as much time in it
  • gannicus0830gannicus0830 Member Posts: 674 ★★★★
    It would be, if they stopped breaking the inputs every update.
  • ThecurlerThecurler Member Posts: 878 ★★★★
    The simple answer is stop playing if you don’t enjoy it.
    I still enjoy aspects of the game but play much less these days because of three reasons.
    1. I don’t have as much spare time.
    2. Input issues have been going on for a ridiculous amount of time now and it can make playing the game an absurdly frustrating experience.
    3. I’m hopelessly addicted with 7+ years invested in the game. Probably couldn’t stop playing even if I wanted to.
  • ShadowstrikeShadowstrike Member Posts: 3,111 ★★★★★
    If you feel like it's no longer fun for you, just take a break and if later on, you still feel the urge to uninstall the game, then that's fine but trying to keep up with anyone else's pace will burn you out much faster than just playing the game at your speed.

    Everyone gets peaks and valleys in every facet of the game. A string of disappointing pulls can kill anyone's enthusiasm and I agree that the bugs can be very annoying but that's a situation in and of itself with no clear fix. Right now focus on what you gotta do and if you one day got the time, see how you feel.
  • Hail_Fire147Hail_Fire147 Member Posts: 30 ★
    edited February 2023
    Buttehrs said:

    Not sure how either of those fix the problem of you having less time to play. You want to be able to read all dialog? That adds time. Typing in a champs name? Adds time.

    Me having to scroll through an endless roster (since we can't delete champions anymore) takes time, being able to directly search for a specific character would be faster. Having quests auto-play allows me to simultaneously do other things as well, but I have no idea what's happening narrative wise if it skips the dialogue.

    Another reason I'm considering leaving the game is because I'm running out of space on my tablet, and this game is one of the top things taking up space. And I hate playing games on my phone, so downloading it on that is not an option for me.
  • DNA3000DNA3000 Member, Guardian Posts: 19,844 Guardian
    PantherusNZ said:

    I felt this way nearly 2 years ago, and left the game for that time. I have returned about a month or so ago and am playing the game very differently - I'm in a retired alliance with optional AQ (and that AQ is a single BG doing a boss rush) and AW, and no requirements for events. I don't explore any EQ difficulty, just do a single completion run of them all. I do as much or as little Arena as I feel like.

    I'm enjoying the game more than I had in several years because all of that pressure is gone.

    You have to accept SIGNIFICANTLY lower rewards, sure, but that's the trade-off for not spending as much time in it

    I'll point out that even this is not true, at least not entirely. What you have to accept is that you won't get the same rewards as everyone else grinding longer hours at the same time. But even if you play very casually, you will still get what everyone else is getting now, just down the road.

    That's true in two separate ways. First the obvious: if you play two hours a week you'll earn rewards fifty times slower than a maniac that players a hundred hours a week. So you will get the same rewards as them only fifty times slower. That's awful, but it is true.

    But the second factor mitigates that a lot. Because it won't be fifty times slower. If you're playing casually then it won't take you two years to get something another player gets in a couple weeks because during that time the actual game rewards will inflate. People always look at the game rewards today and extrapolate without factoring in inflation, saying things like "at this rate it will take ten years for me to get to Paragon." But it won't, because T5C that starts off super rare eventually becomes super common. If you play at a slow pace, your rewards will still accelerate upward and make the stuff people are struggling to get today easy to get eventually.

    If you want to play the game at your own pace, and that pace is not fast, you will still reach Cavalier, Thronebreaker, and Paragon. The resources you need that you might find difficult to get today will get easier tomorrow, and will be within your reach at almost any level of game play. The content you can't beat today will keep getting easier, because you roster will keep getting stronger.

    So you can see it as getting a lot less rewards for casual play, or you can see it as getting the same rewards a lot later. But if you're playing casually and just for fun, who cares really, as long as you get to play the way you want, and you eventually get to have whatever you want, and you eventually get to do whatever you want. It just won't happen immediately.
  • Hail_Fire147Hail_Fire147 Member Posts: 30 ★
    DNA3000 said:

    The game is not a chore. It is players who decide to play it like a chore. Maybe if you played it less like a choire, it would be less of a chore.

    What would you tell someone who told you they were thinking of giving up watching football, because it was such a shore. So many games, so many teams, morning noon and night, and both college and pros, and they are even making new leagues now. Its just ridiculous how much football there is out there, so they were thinking of completely giving up all connection to football. What would you say to them?

    That would be your answer.

    You’re telling me that something like getting higher tier catalysts isn’t more of a pain than it’s worth?
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