4. Killing The Same Things Over And Over Again To Level Up Is Fun
No, levelling up is fun, grinding (repetitious tedious slaughtering of the same hapless monsters again and again) isnt. Yes WoW, Im looking at you. And Final Fantasy. And Runescape. And theres probably loads more out there, but I havent played them because Ive wasted a thousand hours killing Blackburrow gnolls over and over again, trying to get my character to a level where other players can't kill him just by looking at him funny. Whats wrong with just being good at a game to progress? If Im paying £120 a year for your game I dont want to be spending my time repeating the same tedious chores ad nauseum. Thats what I have a day job for. I want that money to be plunged into development so that Im constantly surprised by whats round the corner, rather than figuring out ways to disguise the grind. Its called imagination people, start using it.