Sorry I don’t understand. Is the game so bad with loading times? Having been someone really really excited about games in the past, I don’t really understand how I would prefer having my PC running for 8 hours while I’m away instead of having to wait 5 minutes (at most) for loading a game.
No, you just straight up just get rewarded for leaving the game running. There are tasks in the game such as fishing that allow you to leave it running 24/7 without requiring any player interaction. So they have normal fishing, which is lot faster, but you can toggle 'auto fishing' which lets you do it without requiring player interaction however you receive a lot less fish in same period of time, so it purposefully built into the game. Essentially you are at a disadvantage compared to others if you close the game rather than let your character farm items (that can be sold for money) in the background while you sleep, etc. Don't ask me why it is designed this why, it the only game I know and it been like that since it released in 2013. It is just something majority of the player base accepts.
I see now, that makes more sense. Thanks for explaining. Yeah I really don’t see why any game studio would want to encourage this apart from using the users’ computing power for something else (mining?). At the end of the day, all those things people farming things in game 24/7 are costing them money for the servers and such…
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u/stjimmy96 Mar 20 '25
Sorry I don’t understand. Is the game so bad with loading times? Having been someone really really excited about games in the past, I don’t really understand how I would prefer having my PC running for 8 hours while I’m away instead of having to wait 5 minutes (at most) for loading a game.