#idle rant

I want to rant about Idle mobile games… and how much I dislike them. I don’t get why people love them so much, they take no skill whatsoever and have no gaming purpose.

A game should have a thought process behind it, some element that makes the player think, how will this decision impact my world. This can be in the way of killing someone, talking to someone, stealing from someone, whatever! But in the end, these decisions flow the story or the gameplay. All there is to an idle miner, is do I have x money to get x upgrade, if yes buy it, if no wait a little longer. This takes no thought, or skill, all takes is checking if a number is big enough. On top of that, when you buy an upgrade all it does is change a look slightly, make a bar move slightly faster… that’s it… no reward whatsoever.

Then these games have the element of pay to go faster, for example, you buy this booster and you’ll gain money at 2x speed for only 100 gems (which costs $2). So you pay them… so your game, again, moves slightly faster… All these games are based around is moving slightly faster and seeing more things on screen, no story, no ending, no satisfaction other than my bar moves faster than yours.

I find the leaderboards of these games riddled with I would call hackers, who have amassed $ amounts that are either all the same (so max value allowed) or are some random combination of numbers that breaks the screen. I find it very hard to believe people got there legitimately. If they did, kudos for them on not seeing the world around them because they clearly have no social life. Or these people have a ton of money to burn, in which case… congrats again, you spent a ton of money on something worth nothing, that no one cares about.

All I see polluting app stores now is idle games with slightly different themes that all do the exact same thing, I don’t know why people still bother with these, I personally want them gone, bring to light the games that take thought to make, have effort put into stories and characters. There are tons of indie companies out there who I’m sure would kill to be on the front page of app stores, but they are never given a chance simply because they are different. These people are the real gamers who want to bring enjoyment to people, not make a quick profit on someone who falls for another idle miner.

That said, I want to see a The Originals version where Niklaus has someone loyal to him. I mean yeah, he's childish and temperamental and elitist. But he's also proper and deadly and powerful and brutal. I'd follow him to the ends of the earth, and I'm disappointed that everyone in his life hates him for being as strong as he is.