I’ve never had a problem with long projects that have clear goals. Tell me that you need to get 200 Magic Iron Bars to acquire a nice sword when I can get four bars a day, and I’ll set my date in the calendar and plan my actions around it. Tell me that I have a chance to get a nice sword once per day, and even if the odds are in my favor that it’ll come along sooner than 50 days, I’ll get annoyed because that’s how chance works. I would much rather have it as a project I can plan out.
That being said, I am not everyone, and some people would much rather spend 50 days hoping for a drop than 50 days farming a little bit toward a goal consistently. So how easy do you find long-term farming projects in MMOs? Do you enjoy having a reliable result even if you know it’s going to take a while? Do you dislike having what amounts to a shopping list? Or do you think it mostly depends on factors beyond the farming approach?
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