Some of you might recall my attempt at a grand gesture where I bravely announced my intention to the world to go 40 days without opening packs or buying bundles on SWCT, only saving daily credits. My goal was to save 1 million free credits but more importantly to not pay into a system that I felt was treating me and players in general pretty shabbily. Plus I felt the strong need to really break out of the habit driven hamster wheel I felt like I was on of constant obsessive idiocy in the app. I was the rat that kept pushing the button long after they stopped filling the thing that was supposed to dispense the food pellets but I kept on pushing that button, man.
So how’d it go? Well as I have admitted in several threads I fell far short in many respects. No excuses. I made it about to Valentine’s day, when my wife gifted me the bundle Valentine cards that came with credits. Shortly before that we’d had the avalanche of long overdue awards that had been one of my primary gripes. It felt like as soon as I started tilting at windmills, the winds in the app shifted. The first set of Concept cards were the last straw. Then came the Graphic Galaxy, an art style I could never have resisted if I tried. But one critical change I was able to make in terms of getting “off the wheel” so to speak was excusing myself from the start of the new marathons. I was able to sit on the sidelines as they rolled out helped in large part mentally to the removal of the week one problem because of the way they did these similar to what they have been doing in TWD. Also in large part I wasn’t thrilled with them at all. Only WV looked good to me and I managed to pick up a couple here and there in cross trades. I also was able to get off the constant chase of the Mystery cards. My wife still chases them and I point her at them and occasionally pull one for her to be sweet. They haven’t done a Y-Wing one yet so that helped too. Hoarding has been great and I’ve made great strides on my Y-Wing Starfighter and am fast approaching my 10k goal on Fat Clone Idiot (any hep would be hot) So all in all, though I talked big and deserve to be mocked for failing so hard in many ways I feel it was a successful exercise. I’m having more fun, I remembered I really don’t need EVERYTHING. And I really do like the stuff I have collected and enjoyed the process again much more when I don’t feel constantly driven to spend spend spend. And it feels like things have improved in the app. I see people going to the trouble to post positive things more often. The new team seem to be striking a better balance. I’m hopeful that will continue.
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