• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Wait… They actually made logging out something you need to do in order to complete objectives?

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      10 months ago

      Not technically, but yes. I don’t remember the component, but there’s one specific widget that you need to get in order to build one of the ship launched fighters (iirc). You have to complete a (decently fun imo) gameplay loop, and huzzah! You get the widget.

      But you need fifteen of them.

      And they don’t respawn while you’re in the instance, no matter how long you wait.

      There’s only one single site on the entire planet, so you either have to

      1. Leave the planet and fly back (which can take minutes).
      2. Find another. They aren’t marked on the map or anything so you have to quit the game and open a browser and find the third party website that indexes everything Frontier is too lazy to do themselves, find a solar system a dozen jumps away that maybe has what you’re looking for and repeat the process, or
      3. Relog

      Guess which one most of the players do?

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      10 months ago

      It’s my point of view that they created so much friction in the gameplay loop that players generally prefer logging to get their materials or whatever they need, and FDev’s policy is “sure, whatever,” because then they don’t have to improve the gameplay.

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        10 months ago

        Wow… I played just long enough to buy a Dolphin, never got out of the first few systems, it was before Beyond’s release and I found the loop to be boring after about 15h…