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[โ€“] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is a feature of Escape From Tarkov. Your trainable skills decrease to a minimum if you don't use them, even if you're playing regularly. I tend to like effort-based progression more than point spend, so this is a sound idea depending on how it's implemented.

Western gamers and especially americans are just devestated when a game doesn't preserve their progress forever, Once Human being the prime example in recent years. People couldn't see past level-playing-field reset periods and decided it was theft, so by the time they added permanent scenarios (which are basically like every ARK pve no wipe server: unplayably bad) the damage was done.

[โ€“] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

it's criticized in general as a dark pattern that encourages toxic habits and is anti consumer. it is secondarily a problem because aint nobody got time for that shit.

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