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One thing you didn't have was the rat race involved in many modern multiplayer games. When you want to be competitive and the top people are all playing all th
by rtpg 8y ago
One thing you didn't have was the rat race involved in many modern multiplayer games.
When you want to be competitive and the top people are all playing all the time, you have no choice but to also play all the time. Doubly so when you have some sort of XP/loot system and some notion of resource consumption
- dogma1138 8y agoArcade games had top scores and even prizes.
- jexah 8y agoThis completely misses the point. In arcade games you can take a day off, come back the next day, and be just as likely to be "the best". In modern online mobile games, if you wanna be at the top and you take a day off, you might as well just give up. This is what was being referred to.
- watwut 8y agoThe primary difference however seem to be that in arcade you competed against dozen local kids most of whom did not cared at all, so it was easy to stay on top and feel like you are best of best. Internet makes you compete against whole world, so there is unlimited supply of people who dedicate their whole life to this particular competition. Necessary, you have to settle for not being best or dedicate whole life too. And if this is your motivation, then anything competitive online will consume you - whether game or fiction writing.