Friday wrote:If you play this game and do not pay for it, and are having fun despite the game slowing to an absolute crawl in terms of progression, then I suggest reinstalling Diablo 3 because it's the same dopamine loop and you can actually get to the endgame, you know, in this lifetime without spending money.
Don't buy Diablo 3 if you don't already own it, though. Because then you go back to financing 1 and 2.
That's what Grim Dawn, Path of Exile, or who-asked-for-this TitanQuest expansions are for.
Friday wrote:Diablo Immortal is a trap designed to create and milk whales.
Egregiously. I think Genshin can be enjoyed without paying into it much. Their Battle Pass thing gives you ~21% more energy-gated progress per week (~9 days of resin's worth every 6 weeks.) Someone going for the BP and Welkin (bonus pull shit) is basically looking at a $12/mo sub, which isn't that different from WoW's ask.
Yeah, character gacha systems are largely designed to engender FOMO, and I've seen a friend spend thousands on Genshin's (which is fucking weird) but for the non-pathological, Genshin is enjoyable enough on a casual level and doesn't feel on the same scale of abuse as D:I, even though they share genre and consequently some of the same psychological tricks.