Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam and Itch

[maiki]

In the part of my heart that hurts very much. T_T

Nah, seriously though, I don’t play GW2:

@maiki

I stopped playing GW2 when they got caught installing spyware. I figured they would sort that out and I would be part of a slump in sales for them, but some year or so in the future I would get interested again, and they hadn’t done anything else… but this is done, I am over the story.

There are soooo many options out there, and yeah GW2 is a pretty great and beautiful game, there will be others. And we don’t have to support malware and asshattery!

But I will answer, because it is still valid, and I think GW2 is an exception to MMOs as time sinks: I didn’t have to invest anything in GW2 (or GW) to have fun. I could play as much or as little as I wanted, and I got what I needed. I didn’t grind in GW.

LOTRO: grindy as fuck! Hence I don’t play it. When I do, I just want to run around the virtual Middle-Earth, not really interact with the game, per se. So I can appreciate it for the graphics, and some of the story is interesting, though not as much as GW2 is to me.

First person shooters: I don’t like unlocks and loadouts, though they are silly in TF2, for instance. I prefer Counter-Strike money-per-round or per-match style loadouts. Why? Because I shouldn’t have to grind to play an FPS.

So there are a lot of different criteria. Dwarf Fortress is text mode. It is deep. It gets better the more you put in. Those attributes don’t fit my life style.