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English 2025-07-21 ARPG that i spend in for about 2200 hours in 2022 alone.
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Playing the game

  • Pro:     - difficulty is just the right amount to feel rewarding     - good soundtrack     - satisfying fighting and gearing system     - aesthetic     - learning how to communicate in voice chat with english     - complexity
  • Con:     - at any time there is a daily, weekly, dungeon/raid and so forth. and it resets every week. Therefore, there is no end. After each activity one could go on.     - fear of missing out hits hard as the rewards are way higher if the player plays every day     - gatekeeping in groupfinder     - too much incentives for p2w     - enormous time sink: 2300h within 10 months...     - social pressure comes as there is constant comparison of gear     - once you quit for a certain time window, there is no way to get a top account ever again     - rewards become worthless over time (as the soft cap and hard cap are being pushed)     - It makes you dumb by reducing the variety of your challenges to the same ones every run.
  • usage-solution: Fun game, but a massive time sink and reduced variety of challenges cause neuroplasticity to worsen ones capability to solve tasks. Gatekeeping and time schedules...
  • My experiences:     - I quit when i started my first job. I had 6 characters ready for the newest raid which was insane for that time. My account was one of the most valuable ones. However, that changed pretty quickly after the soft cap was raised while i was not playing. In general, i felt very relieved that i do not have "homework" in this game anymore. Additionally, my private time schedule was free now.     - When i came back the feeling of being way too far behind was really bad. I tried to keep it low ball, but eventually you have to find raid groups with your character and the missing gear and title (which are heavily time gated) make it almost impossible to play normally. I quit when i realized that the game has become a time sink again.