10 Ways Video Games Keep Pissing Off Fans
2. Dailies & Timed Content
This is one of the more insidious entries on this list, except that it’s not so insidious because that implies it’s taking advantage of us without our knowledge and we all know exactly what these games are up to. Even if we do admittedly keep engaging in the feature anyway.
More and more games are incorporating timed content with specific rewards you can only get if you complete dailies and weeklies. If that sounds like a job with a deadline, it basically is.
What games like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, PUBG, World of Warcraft, Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2 Online, and 400 other titles do is pop a bunch of daily and weekly tasks that are cleverly designed to ask the right amount of time and energy from you in return for a prize you can’t get anywhere else. They’re also very clever at instilling you with the fear of missing out so you feel like you have to complete them at every interval.
This gets especially hard to pass up if you’re dealing with a multiplayer game and your friends are all doing the timed objectives so you feel doubly obligated.