I am not great at writing, so, ignore if it’s all over the place…
Last night was the end for me, I decided to spend more money on the S3 offers and did 30 pulls, resulting in my a Sonya and Stonecleaver. It made me feel sick to have spent so much money and to realise I had spent £160+ in April alone (pennies to a lot of you, i know). To me, this is a huge amount of money, the money I do not have to just throw away in a game (or life) of any kind. It’s 2 weeks of rent for me or 6 weeks of groceries.
Sadly, I have to admit I am addicted.
I joined E&P on July 1st 2019, which is 651 days of gaming. Of course, at first, I wouldn’t have been playing so much each day, and maybe not for the first 6 months.
In total, I have played 4,792 minutes on this game. That’s 7.4 hours per day, every day, that includes those first months where it would not have been so bad.
I think when you are playing 7hrs or more on a mobile game and then also spending money you do not have (I worked out it’s about £95 per month since starting to play), we can finally agree and call it an addiction and need to just quit cold turkey.
For a while I kept saying I won’t buy more offers, I won’t spend money, I will reduce my playtime, yet none of that happened because, yep, addiction and added to that, new shiny heroes being added.
I literally, fully stopped enjoying the game as with many others. And the only reason I continued playing was that gamble of maybe getting a new shiny amazing 5*, or just for the sake of doing something with my time. I was checking my phone every 5 minutes, I couldn’t even enjoy regular life (not even something simple like tv or movies - I’d be watching then after 5 mins I would “have” to pick up my phone and check it).
The RNG for everything in this game is TOO much and really needs to change. I understand SOME needs to exist to make everything more challenging and fun, that I agree with. We have become too accepting and “fine” with everything being RNG. Everyone’s answer to everything “that’s RNG for you”. So, we are the ones to blame for things being so bad and odds being terrible because we accept it and respond with that constantly.
Anyway, hopefully, one day it will change and improve for everyone.
I am hoping now with it being spring and soon summer, it’s a good time that I have quit and I can go do something else instead of staring at my screen as soon as I wake up and before I fall asleep.
Thanks to everyone who has ever helped, and this community is truly the best I have ever had the honour of being around, everyone is very selfless in helping one another and teaching, going above and beyond with your research and stat tracking, etc.
Thanks to We Are Groot for allowing me into their alliance and letting me annoy them daily
@Guvnor @Gregor.Jax (I can’t remember anyone else’s tags for the forum, sorry haha).
If anyone is feeling at all like how I do/did, then I would also suggest doing the same as I have and just quitting the game. As they say in gambling “When the fun stops, stop!”.
Take care all and try to enjoy what you can in the game, if you can.
NotYou87