Quote (Dmitriy @ May 6 2024 03:26am)
Ya it seems like GGG has forgotten what game they're making. D2 is still the king of item drop rates. They basically turned PoE into D3 with this league since you just get geared in 1 week now.
SCIENCE TIME AGAIN!1 did you guys know what many feelings have a base trigger, and some of those triggers can be a bit unexpected? for example trigger for disgust is that you subconsciously think something can infect you. thats why worms and bats are disgusting but wasps and bears arent, even though they can hurt you also
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anyways burnout has a trigger, and that trigger is being forced to do something (over the level of boredom ofc). thats actually why on a job you have resting periods on daily, weekly and yearly basis
! so generally, burnout means you have been forced to do something you dont currently enjoy, and that forcing could have been done by the same person affected by the burnout. meaning you did things you otherwise wouldnt have, but you forced yourself to do it for some reason. in this case (many modern arpgs and especially poe), there are psychological tricks being used on people to force them to play over the boredom threshold
in d2 it didnt happen because if you got bored, you would just take a break. but in poe you cant take a break because you will miss out on something or be poor or whatever. poe forces you to play when you otherwise wouldnt, and that ends in a burnout
its a disgusting strategy employed by ggg and other gaming companies, and theres no magical cure for it, anyone can be manipulated this way
and then sunken cost comes in and ppl talk shit to me and defend ggg because they have invested too much and its easier to defend ggg than allow yourself to realize the truth..
tldr: feeling boredom is normal, feeling burnout isnt. it means you were bored to begin with, and then were forced to do it despite the feeling of boredom. my advice would be, the moment you detect boredom, quit. doesnt matter if its 2 days into the league and you can miss out on something, just quit
the more poe becomes shit, the faster boredom will set in. just listen to it and stop playing