Why would you play if you're not having fun?
Just curious as people seem to be putting themselves through misery day after day.
If you're not having fun, game after game after game (in either role), why would you continue to play?
Genuinely curious, especially if you feel like you fall into this category.
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I would not.
The game was no longer the same game I fell in love with back in 2018, so I left.
As simple as it can be.
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Sunk Cost Fallacy.
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Because DBD is just like Golf!
*Laughter turns into crying turns back into crazy laughter turns into a super ugly cry*
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Addiction, masochism, sunk cost fallacy, hope that the happy feeling I used to get comes back, those rare moments when it is enjoyable when get matched with good set of randoms. Just few different reasons off top of my head.
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Survivor is fun with friends but alone it's not fun unless killer is bad and you can loop him to oblivion so I play soloQ mostly for challenges. Killer is much more fun and I like to destroy my opponents. But not every match is fun as sometimes you lose.
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Dbd's good when it's good...but when it's not, I go to Borderlands and...y'know.
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No.
Just to get a better game before getting off.
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I've been taking a break for 3 months, but I still watch dbd content.
I might come back soon or whenever the mid-patch goes live.
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No other game like this, for me the only other fun 4v1 game was Evolve and it died quickly. I'm "worried" about next update tho I already struggle as survivor
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For me, I have fun most days. Now I have a rule if I have two bad matches in a row, I switch roles. If my third game sucks I quit for the day. I don't mean losses either, but games that just suck.
But to answer your question when I used to really fight through a string of terrible games it was pretty much because of the grind. I'm now less than two weeks from being 100 percent p3 all perks on everyone. I'll no longer have to grind. And I'll probably play quite a bit less. I have no interest in grinding passed whatever level it puts me to after the update (i.e. have to get to level 20 on all characters)
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This is something I will never understand myself.
It is a hobby. Hobbies are meant to be enjoyable right?
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My games always seem so random so I tend to have quite a bit of fun. Sometimes when I'm not having fun, I'll get off and play Stellaris or something.
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I just take few months break if Im not having fun. Why would I play something if I dont have fun when playing it?
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Tbh for me , I have played so many other games and am uninterested that I stick around for the good matches in this game . Theoretically if there were different games that caught my eye like this one id leave but that's clearly my own issue .
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I started doing the if I have 3 bad games I go play something else. I started answering the "did I have fun" thing - if I answer 1 for 3 games I stop playing.
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I took a 2-month break recently because I wasn’t having fun and I wasn’t happy with the game. I came back and the game feel fun again.
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Killer has been made easier with almost every patch. It is ridiculously easy to 4k each and every game if you just don't give survivors a chance to unhook and press on a final 3 gen configuration. Bingo. All dead. I have a hard time NOT to 4k as killer, even if I don't really put a lot of energy into the game.
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I'm reminded of a line in Sword Art Online Abridged, when the characters are being told they're trapped in the game
"Much like the World of Warcraft, none of you are here by choice anymore. Unlike WoW, however, you're being held here by me, not your need to escape your empty (bleep)ing lives."
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Addiction.
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A question not enough people here ask themselves.
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Seems a lot of people are their own worst enemies when it comes to having a good time.
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That's the worst part. Once I'm upset it's like I can't stop.
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I'm in the same boat.
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Welcome aboard!
Not a pleasant journey, is it?
At least we have the memories of better days.
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/cracks open the barrel of rum to reminisce
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Pretty much this.
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You invest time in games to have fun. I don't understand this argument.
It is not a business for most of us so why keep investing? What do you get? Feeling bad? Where is your reward except the potential good time?
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There are one in a million moments to experience but you have to slog through the mud to get there.
The game is better than it has ever been but it takes its toll if you care about victory.
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Maybe some folks spent a bunch of money on the game and playing it has become habitual due to the financial investment? Or maybe there aren't a lot of horror games where you can play as your favorite horror movie characters?
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Some people are competitive to the point that it doesn't matter what they’re playing it’s not for fun it’s to win. I used to be like that and even things like pool or certain games I would still play even if I didn’t like it just for the competition of it.
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It’s a hobby to casual players some people don’t play casual they play to win and not just in this game in all games people watch hours of videos watch hours of their own games to see where you made fault I play games like that but after playing dbd and it’s bugginess I had to stop taking it seriously but I still play other games looking for all the metas and studying the games.
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It is still a hobby regardless if you are casual or not. It is something you do in a free time unless you benefit from it financially.
I also like to perfect most of the games I play since I was a kid and sometimes even challenge myself beyond that to achieve some really hard things.
But it is still a hobby to me regardless of the effort I put into it. And if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. There is no point.
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I have fun 99% of the time.
The only thing that can ever ruin it for me is other people being jerks for no damn reason.
If I could play against bots who played like humans without flaming in the End-game chat, facecamping, or tunnelling, I probably wouldn't play against other people for most of my games.
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Hobby or not Its like chasing the dragon though... You get a ultimate high when you do good and when you lose it makes you feel like you did something wrong. So if you are having an off night and lose every game you enjoy it? If you do then you aren't very competitive and if you don't continue to play and instead go to another game then its also a sign you aren't very competitive or else the losing would drive you to try to turn the night around not just going out like a quitter. Not the best thing for mental health I'm just providing you to the insight of other players I'm not trying to tell you how you feel when you play just how other people play and that's what the OP was about. If I'm not good at something I will continue to make myself miserable doing it until I get better at it.
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I generally have fun, except in some specific scenarios, in which I will refuse to play through methods I cannot disclose.
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When I'm not having fun or I find something better (Elden Ring) then I go away for a while but this game is more fun than frustration.
Besides, the Nurse is such a unique stroke of genius nowhere else to be found.
I must say, I'm kind of impressed by some of the replies.
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Gaming is serious business.
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Idc about dying or losing otherwise I wouldn't try and succeed in beating tree sentinel without taking any damage in elden ring for example. With lvl 1 wretch.
You are making assumptions without even knowing me. I grew up on platformers/beatemups where if you die you lose all the progress you made. As 8 year old I played double dragon & battletoads on nes for days until I was the only one in neighborhood who was able to beat it every time I attempted it. Kids didn't believe me saying that game was impossible lol. It is still a hard game even for an adult to complete in one go but I never gave up on it at the time.
I am stubborn I can set my mind on goals. Losing doesn't bother me when I am trying to achieve something challenging because feeling you get is worth it for me.
I don't take dbd seriously tho because it is imbalanced and too rng based compared to some other multiplayer games.
But even if I did I wouldn't feel bad failing if I had goals in mind. Even if I gave up on something I tried to achieve I wouldn't feel bad about it. I remember beating 2 babels in catherine and gave up on third. I spent some time on it but it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I had fun.
I can understand people feeling bad if they fail but it is not something that bothers me personally. Games are games. And it doesn't mean I give up and I'm not competetive because I am not feeling super bad about failing. Challenging things can be fun regardless if you succeed or not. I also did really well in some multiplayer games when I set my mind on it. Failling doesn't affect me.
But if someone is affected by a game in a very bad way they shouldn't play it. There is no point imo. I see people calling each other all sorts of names and losing hair about it. Which is borderline unhealthy.
It is, for people making money out of it.
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Sunk cost fallacy. I've spent too much money on this game to just up and leave. Despite how much that would improve my mental health. The lizard brain is even more tunnel oriented than Nemesis mains.
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I didn't know people can get addicted to pain and misery. I guess everyone here has a little cenobite inside of them.
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Because it's addicting.
Even though I'm not having fun, there will always be this one game where I was actually enjoying my time and then somehow my head uses that as a justification for the next 20...
Just to clarify "not having fun" doesn't mean dread every second that I expose myself to the game. 90% of the time I'm just bored, I've given up on this game ever being in a good spot, balance wise, so I've mostly stopped caring.
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7337 posts!
Also, I just think of it as a spooky timewaster with my monster pals at this point.
Can't say if the mindset helps, but I definitely have a better time/do better than some of the posters I've seen with regards to their own experiences.
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I played for 1 hour in the last month I think. Even the event was boring. Waiting on TCMTG. But I like seeing people stress over this game it's soothing. I will try the update on console but I think it's going to be killer sided and I don't have an ego or ax to grind so that will be short-lived and dusted in a couple of hours too.
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Like I said it has nothing to do with you personally I'm telling you the point of view from other people not everything is about you. The title of this post isn't how does shaped feel. What I was saying is some people are taking things way more competitively than you do you said it yourself you do thing the hard way but do it leisurely some people don't. I'm 35 trust me I know all about losing all your progress playing a game with no saves I also wouldn't get off the system till I beat a game then I would go outside and enjoy the rest of my weekend and if I didn't beat it I wouldn't go outside till I did. You obviously do care or else you wouldn't keep pushing to beat the game and you cant sit there and tell me it doesn't tilt you sometimes so if it tilts you it does make you upset which is the main point of the post but you still play them anyways right. The only way to succeed is through failure and when you fail you want to win right so you know in that head somewhere you have to do better why because you feel bad that you need to better or else you wouldn't try to do better.
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Ok, sorry if I took it the wrong way.
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