The Active Time Events of button mashing are bad gameplay. Period.
1) If you fail, the entire game grinds to a halt.
2) Succeeding at an ATE is not interesting. At all. Ever. The second ATE is same damn thing as the first. (And, with weekly resets, you get to do mindless button mashing again...and again...and again...)
(And the new trial manages to make a completely terrible thing even more terrible by making it so that if one person fails the ATE, everybody fails.)
Stop making them. Stop spending developer time on something that only makes your game worse.
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1) If you fail, the entire game grinds to a halt.
2) Succeeding at an ATE is not interesting. At all. Ever. The second ATE is same damn thing as the first. (And, with weekly resets, you get to do mindless button mashing again...and again...and again...)
(And the new trial manages to make a completely terrible thing even more terrible by making it so that if one person fails the ATE, everybody fails.)
Stop making them. Stop spending developer time on something that only makes your game worse.
Continue reading...