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[–] [email protected] 135 points 9 months ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

The factory must grow!

[–] exoplanetary 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Spent like 80 hours in the last two weeks playing Space Exploration. Send help

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] Speculater 15 points 9 months ago

As someone who recently installed it, it took all of 20 hours to realize there's either no or minimal MMR and I said fuck this.

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[–] jroid8 67 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case someone would like to know: I took this screenshot from the leaf blower revolution's steam page

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Wtf... The review gets a whole other dimension with this knowledge... It's more the "help me" of an addicted now...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What did you think this was – with 3750 hours of playtime on record?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Just one more turn, man. That's all I need. Then Ghandi will pay. C'mon man I'll go to sleep right after, I promise.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Path of exile? Never played it but seems right.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

RimWorld, I have hundreds of hours of playtime, (not including my previous extralegal copy) and now I am obsessed with:

  • human nuggets (not that kind) (not immediately, anyways)
  • organ harvesting
  • human leather cowboy hats (and dusters)
  • greenhouses (for weed* and cocaine)
  • how do I fit the new turrets in my existing killbox

*not actually true, it's all coke

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Mabinogi.

Not many people have played it I'm sure, but imagine this:
You've just downloaded a new free MMO. You figure it's gonna be super pay to win, but it's free so why not give it a shot anyway.
For the first few minutes, after you stop being confused by the UI, you start to take everything in. There are no classes, you can do whatever you want. Want to be a mage AND a warrior? Totally doable. Want to be a bard playing in the town square for tips? Thanks to the robust music system, you can. In fact, you're having trouble finding anything you can't do.
A few months later, things are progressing nicely. You've mastered every skill, played thousands of songs by now, got some pretty good gear, and you haven't encountered even a hint of the p2w you expected. Life is great. However, you're going to need a bit of a gear upgrade before tackling this next dungeon. You check how much it'll cost you. 300 million.
You've never even seen more than 50 million in one place before. Nevertheless, you figure with hard work, you can achieve it. After a month, you've gathered about 100 mil by exploiting market bubbles to sell anything valuable as fast as possible and in as large of quantities as possible. It's still not enough though. The cash shop begins to beckon you. You could pay a little real money to buy a cash shop item, and sell it for gold.
But you realize that in order to get the 200 mil you need, you'd need to spend over 100 dollars. You rationalize to yourself that hey, the p2w isn't that bad if it's easier to make the gold in game than it is to make the real money to buy it. You continue on your quest, but you run into an issue. There just aren't any more bubbles to exploit. You've crashed the market in your quest to obtain all the gold you need without spending a penny. You cave, and buy just a couple cash shop items to sell and make up the difference. You get your shiny new equipment. You feel powerful. It's such a huge upgrade it's almost ridiculous. You feel like 20$ was worth it to have this much fun. Out of curiosity, you check to see how much your next upgrade will cost.

2 billion. It's too late. You're addicted. Sunk cost fallacy has kicked in. You've already invested in your character, and that next upgrade is gonna cost you 2000$.
You can't quit. You've tried. There's just no game like this anywhere else. You will spend that money eventually, no matter how hard you try to avoid it.

This is my story. I'm aiming to get that gold without spending a penny. It's been months. I'm half a percent if the way there. It's not gonna happen. Every day I have to pull myself away from that cash shop. It would be so easy, but so irresponsible.
But one day I will spend that money. The game is insidious like that. The only way to avoid it is to either not play the game in the first place or not give a shit about progressing. I am in neither camp.

Genuinely, I love the game, but every day I pray it gets shut down before I have the chance to pay in that much money. It's so hard to stop myself.

[–] ikidd 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Dude. Uninstall it, walk away, get a hobby with that $2000. Something you always wanted to do that's on your bucket list. There's no way playing a P2W game was on your bucket list.

Buy a guitar, take some lessons. That would be way more fulfilling than playing something in a virtual town square for imaginary tips.

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[–] jroid8 18 points 9 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Minecraft. There's always another automatic farm to create, a new cave to explore and a new mod to try out! Not to mention the fun that multiplayer brings...

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[–] PumaStoleMyBluff 32 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Clearly this is just Vim being launched through Steam.

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[–] XeroxCool 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Elite: Dangerous has lots of players that complain all day and play all night. Probably EVE too

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Escape from Tarkov.... Fucking hate that game!! I'll be on tonight 7pm central if anyone wants to team up.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How has no one said WoW, so much time lost

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] lordnikon 21 points 9 months ago

satisfactory

[–] Kylah 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Rimworld 12,000 hours later... I definitely need help

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Starfield. People played for 700 hours then wrote a bad review then play for another 300 hours . Bro if you put 1000 hours into a game there was obviously something you liked about it.

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[–] Arthur_Leywin 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] shyguyblue 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

I've put in over 2,700 hours into Oxygen Not Included, so that's my vote.

Edit: Oh dip, I just looked it up and I'm slightly over 2,800 now :/

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[–] Thekingoflorda 17 points 9 months ago

Rimworld for me. I would only end a session when shit hit the fan.

[–] EdibleFriend 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Ark. The original anyways, I refuse to buy 1.5. It was a poorly optimized piece of shit full of broken crap yet I couldn't stay away. That is, until, it became so bloated I couldn't fit it on my SSD anymore.

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[–] Mun_Walker 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Space Engineers and Kerbal Space Program

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Oldschool Runescape. Some 15000 hours down now...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a dota 2 position 5 support player.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

RuneScape, Ark, ... DOTA2 (especially with that cry for help).

Some people get lost for thousands of hours in grand-strategy games like Europa Universalis. Or MMOs like Eve Online.

But feeling like the game consumed you is grinder and MOBA territory.

[–] Omegamanthethird 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Morrowind

It's one of my favorite games of all time. But choose a wrong setup and you're screwed. Don't get anything before heading out you're dead. Attack a peasant, dead. Go in that cave, dead. Get winded before doing anything, dead and frustrated.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] krondo 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On one hand, Vampire Survivor is super addictive and just extremely well made and feature rich. I recommend it to everyone.

On the other hand, please help me.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Crusader kings 3 for me. My playtime might be longer than the reigns of some real life medieval rulers.

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[–] Neon 12 points 9 months ago

every single souls-like

[–] Xanthrax 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Rimworld, Runescape, EVE, Factorio, Gmod, VR chat, Skyrim Modding, working with Lua, installing linux... wait...

Tbf though, after Planetside broke the record for largest in-game battle, I've never been able to switch to a new "fps mmorpg".

Edit: I just want throw this old clip out there:

https://youtu.be/Bbadyv1OKyY?si=dzp-I7Cm9fOb8Q-K&t=70

God I miss planetside

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft with factory modkit for me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft with tekkit/ftb mod packs has swallowed half of my life

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[–] jedibob5 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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