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What games have you played due to FOMO? (leminal.space)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out.

I've tried playing some JRPGS because they are considered classics and detective games like LA Noire before realizing the genre just wasn't for me.

I've also been stuck in the mentality of if I want to play a game in a series I need to play the prior games. I'm doing this currently for Deus Ex, the Witcher, and Splinter Cell. I guess I'd consider that FOMO to a degree.

Edit: I meant FOMO as in the fear of missing out on something relevant. Not necessarily something that is intentionally being time limited like raids or micro transactions.

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[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, I was interested in trying GI until reading this.

[โ€“] regalia@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's a legitimately a really good game and still has a huge amount of permanent content, but that's the nature of live service games. They need that constant engagement to survive. A game like Baulders gate, you buy it and the devs are paid regardless of how much or how little you play, not really the case with live service.

Oh and GI is gacha which isn't good either. But then they do cool stuff like make a really good card game in game that's completely free with zero paid stuff, and even hold irl tourneys with big prize pools.