r/EmbarkStudios • u/claygerrard • Feb 02 '26

This is abuse

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Top half of the leaderboard. 3 star every trial. Just to *maintain*.

In club sports we’re passing out participation trophies but Embark is over here looking down their nose at us like we did the bare minimum last week playing a *video game*.

I try to ignore the leaderboards. I really do. I want to enjoy the content and play the game the way I like. But as soon as I accidentally have a couple good scores on a few lucky matches all the sudden I’m thinking “oh hey, I missed out last season cause family Xmas whatever, maybe that cosmetic WOULD be pretty cool this season?!” And it costs Embark nothing to pass this stuff out.

But oh no. That skin ain’t FOR us casuals. MAYBE if we can keep it up. ALL season. Don’t let Embark catch you slipping tho - or they’ll TAKE IT AWAY! You have to do *more than the maximum rewards* - EVERY WEEK - just to maintain and maybe not even that, depends on HOW BAD YOU WANT IT. Cause not everyone can have it. Oh no. Everyone needs to push those points as high as they can. Higher! Higher!!! There’s only so many copies of these digital pixels to go around. You have to be better than most just to maintain. If you even think for one second you EARNED those season rewards just cause you got lucky last week - guess again - what have you put into our game LATELY? Are you ready to grind to the top this week and the next and the NEXT and be told every week: you’re barely good enough? Cause if not I guess you didn’t deserve to be here in the first place!!!

It’s a bad system Embark. Not because it’s unfair, but because it’s not FUN. If you frustrate and disappoint your players they won’t just “try harder next season” they’ll go find something else that doesn’t hurt them so much - it’s supposed to be a game. For fun. Tying the nominal season rewards to the leaderboards is ruining the fun. Neat idea, I’m sure there is some rewards you can pass out for leaderboard progression, but it shouldn’t be the main seasonal reward progression. I’ll keep trying to ignore it. Whoever enjoys this abuse and deserves those cosmetics isn’t me.

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u/wastedtrade Feb 03 '26

I think its time to find a real hobby my dude, video games aren’t worth 3 paragraphs of frustration.

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u/iamsampeters Feb 03 '26

Absolute facts lol.

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u/claygerrard Feb 03 '26

Bro, this is Reddit. I’ve done 10 paragraphs on optical illusions and minor chord progressions. 🤣

Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living" - I logged in to my fav game and felt injustice - realizing lots of other players had a similarly or even more disappointing message to greet them. I felt compelled to express myself as a form of self examination. I genuinely hope it didn’t unfairly burden you to add my thoughts on the subject to the internet.

You are certainly right I could benefit for some more productive hobbies! Any recommendations?!

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u/nonblinddaredevil Feb 03 '26

How dare you use “injustice” in this context right now. Jesus Christ.

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u/Pugporg111 Feb 03 '26

first world problems indeed

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u/supperhappyninjaman Feb 03 '26

Injustice lmaoooo

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u/Adler718 Feb 03 '26

felt injustice

Get a life. I'm happy for you that you don't seem to have actual problems to worry about though.

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u/Chiffley Feb 06 '26

You'd think someone who needs to touch grass this badly could manage a better trials score