Is anyone actually going to stop playing?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Nothing worse than a reformed addict preaching against his addiction.

I was never a gambling addict, [Removed by Support]. If you're so curious, I am generally addicted to the progress/feeling of power I get when beating all the endgame content, trivializing most fights, etc, etc. I like using still-enjoyable-to-play builds that utterly decimate a game such as this, leaving no dispute, no argument. At the end, my heist cyclone did T17 100-delis no problem, did everything else without caring about boss mechanics/etc. Mission accomplished. I shoulda stopped right there, tbh, but ritual's new content was too tempting, I still wasn't convinced GGG had become a casino.

In heist league, I traded for almost all my gear, the rest was good bases I managed to quickly slam with scour/essences or scour/alch. Trading for good gear was still 'progress' I guess. Oh, and at some points I flipped a bunch of stuff too, to get some of it. Because actually playing the game already became a huge chore.

Ritual league's harvest brought me back, if only briefly. But now I see what they want their game to be, and I'm not down. Enjoy it, [Removed by Support], for perhaps your passive-aggressivity is because you, too, are a gambling addict. If you are, IMHO, it's ok to be addicted, but NOT OK to be taken advantage of because of said addiction. Think on that.

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blissless_serenity wrote:

Guys, they clearly are preying on your human instincts at every turn, with skinner box, gambling, FOMO (fear of missing out) and purposely fabricated scarcity. I'm not down for that anymore, now that the honeymoon phase has worn off. Almost everyone in the guild chats I've been in is basically a gambling addict, they're always talking about vaal-ing valuable items, etc. I never liked gambling, so I clearly don't belong.

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blissless_serenity wrote:

If you are, IMHO, it's ok to be addicted, but NOT OK to be taken advantage of because of said addiction. Think on that.

That's also the reason Chris doesn't reach the endgame, btw. It's not that he's too bad a player, he just doesn't invest enough time to actually get there because he KNOWS all the shady stuff they've packed into the game and doesn't want to get caught in that web himself.
It's similar to how many facebook employees etc also don't use their own platform because they know of all the manipulation applied there to make people addicted.

yea, I thought about it for less than zero seconds.

Earth must be in pretty healthy shape if we have the time and mental energy to fabricate these kinds of boogeymen.

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innervation wrote:

Earth must be in pretty healthy shape if we have the time and mental energy to fabricate these kinds of boogeymen.

Quite the opposite -Earth is in terrible shape because people of industrial countries are wasting all their energy in such issues.

Anyways, point taken.

Like all of us it's important to keep in mind that social media is like a fish bowl floating along a giant ocean of conversation. There is Reddit and then there is the internet.

I'd hope GGG knows this.

Still play just keeping my wallet close. Not paying for blizzard developers...