Game getting overwhelming?
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Is it just me, or is the game overwhelming right now? I have been playing since the beginning, and play far more hours per day than I probably should, because I enjoy it. Sure, I get frustrated by stuff like lag times, or when game content gets changed in a way I don't like, but the bottom line is I play this much because I enjoy the game.
At least, I have.
This past week, I just find myself getting burnt-out and frustrated. Not because I don't enjoy the content - just the opposite. There are so many things I want to do, and I feel I need to do in order to keep up with the progression of the rest of the community, but I can't. AQ, war, rifts, story quest, event quest, special challenge, dungeons, trials... and most of them requiring significant energy input. I find myself getting burnt-out from trying to do everything and frustrated that I can't do what I want because there is not enough time in the day. Granted, I am mostly a free-to-play player, so I may not be the target for Kabam, but it is disappointing. I understand the timing of the film necessitated them starring some of these things earlier to coincide, but I feel they could have just made the April events end earlier in the month and just cut the required energy for each map so there is not so much overlap right now. I get that the quick response is "you don't have to do it all - it's a choice." But, isn't this content created with the expectation that we want to do it all? It starts to feel like, if I can't play the game the way I want, why bother at all. It's not about difficulty. It's about opportunity.
Am I the only one feeling this way?
At least, I have.
This past week, I just find myself getting burnt-out and frustrated. Not because I don't enjoy the content - just the opposite. There are so many things I want to do, and I feel I need to do in order to keep up with the progression of the rest of the community, but I can't. AQ, war, rifts, story quest, event quest, special challenge, dungeons, trials... and most of them requiring significant energy input. I find myself getting burnt-out from trying to do everything and frustrated that I can't do what I want because there is not enough time in the day. Granted, I am mostly a free-to-play player, so I may not be the target for Kabam, but it is disappointing. I understand the timing of the film necessitated them starring some of these things earlier to coincide, but I feel they could have just made the April events end earlier in the month and just cut the required energy for each map so there is not so much overlap right now. I get that the quick response is "you don't have to do it all - it's a choice." But, isn't this content created with the expectation that we want to do it all? It starts to feel like, if I can't play the game the way I want, why bother at all. It's not about difficulty. It's about opportunity.
Am I the only one feeling this way?
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I however want to see rewards that are not tied to ALL content. In order to amass the most dust next month for the 5 star awakening gem you have to complete basically everything.
This statement is far from the truth.
Explain.
Thank you for saying everything i feel. However i doubt kabam would ajust Dungeons
I wouldn't be surprised if after AW season 2, a lot of day 1 players hang it up.
Have to? Nope.
Have to? Nope.
Who is requiring you to grind? If the answer is yourself, then it's your fault and not Kabam's.
Progress isn't binary.
No he didn't. You said those things in that exact context. No one is forcing you to do anything in this game. You being scared of falling behind the top players is you falling prey to your own desire to compete.
I'm not saying everything has to be done every day, but to have a good balanced growth you do need to have your fingers in everything at least a little. It is becoming a bit too much.
its hard knowing you're missing out on rewards, its also hard putting more time into a game that already demands sooooooooooooooooooooooo much time. people have been complaining since the beginning about this game taking so much time to play throughout the day. Kabam acknowledges this and has stated in the past (several times) that its working on methods to reduce the amount of time this game require, especially the arena grind....lol.
now dungeons requires at least 30 minutes to get through a few rooms. do you have to play as many rooms as possible? no
do you have those champs cooling down for over 20hours? yes
its not fun anymore. i do it because I'm addicted and nothing else.
6 more weeks of this, guys. 6 more weeks. I feel like I’m counting down already, not sad that it’s ending.
And they have. You can get more with less time now than at any time in the past. The problem is that unless they hard cap the rewards, players don't appreciate that they can get more with less time. They see the next higher set of rewards on the horizon and complain that it takes too much time to reach them.
As long as players ratchet their expectations upward, the game will never take less time to play, no matter what Kabam does. If they doubled all of the rewards the arena gave out, it would take half the effort to get everything but everyone would continue to grind just as much; they would just change their expectations to believe that double the rewards was what they should have gotten all along, or they would believe that double the rewards was what was necessary to keep up with everyone else.
You said "have to" and "requirements". Maybe you should look up what words mean before you use them? Hopefully this will help you when trying to explain your opinions without looking foolish.