Someone said I was a casual gamer because I was finding the core gameplay loop (the process of leveling, etc) of WW to not be something I was enjoying and both my girlfriend and I were like… whut.
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Someone said I was a casual gamer because I was finding the core gameplay loop (the process of leveling, etc) of WW to not be something I was enjoying and both my girlfriend and I were like… whut.
There's nothing wrong with being a casual gamer, and also. What even. What definition of 'casual' are you using here, exactly, given that I play games a whole hell of a lot more difficult than WW.
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@hrefna
What's "WW" expand to in this case? -
@smolwaffle Wuthering Waves ^^
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@hrefna
Ah yes, I've seen a lot of people playing that this week. That's f2p with pay for faster advancement isn't it? So the core loop being bad might be intentional -
@smolwaffle No, not faster advancement, at least outside of the standards for this style of game (so you get a few more resources on a time/participation lock if you pay $10/6 weeks).
It's a standard gacha system, so you accumulate in-game currency and can use that to gamble on new characters/weapons. You can buy that IG currency, but that's not the part I struggle with.
The parts I find I don't like out of the loop are the parts that you can't actually pay to circumvent.
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@hrefna
Ahh okay, you can only buy variety, not actual advancement speed for making a given character you've unlocked stronger -
@smolwaffle Examples:
* Every character requires a unique resource to level up, but accessing those resources is quest-locked, sometimes _late_ locked, but the game doesn't give you difficulty sliders that I can find (the way, say, Genshin does), so you can end up in a state of unable to advance the content without leveling up, but finding it difficult to level up.
That might be okay in a year, but right now it is painful.
* The place to join materials together is annoying to navigate to.
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@smolwaffle Yep, in games like this there's a combination of:
* Time investment
* Skill/knowledge investment
* Money investmentThe first two are required and you can play just fine with just those two, and if you want the Latest Content to accelerate getting (but not actually paying outright for) the Best Characters that's where money comes in.
But no amount of money will substitute for the previous two. You can have all of the characters, but you wouldn't be able use them.
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@hrefna I wish it weren't true, but in my experience, being called a "casual gamer" has nothing to do with your expertise, your grounded critique of specific game mechanisms, or your level of play--it just means, "you're a girl."