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Sutekh137
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Yeah, I realize that I want a challenging game, but when the challenge is all a grind, then I start to fade out… The exact same thing happened with Angry Birds 2. Rovio is very proud of the fact that they release 20 new levels (each multi-room) every two weeks. To me, that’s just burnout-central because the levels start to feel like a chore for a completionist like me instead of something new and wondrous (I find the levels on AB2 VERY same-y, though your mileage will undoubtedly vary). So, AB2 got uninstalled months ago and I haven’t missed it.

I doubt it will be that clean of a break for Epic because I really have enjoyed it, even the grinding (to an extent). But now grinding is that much harder to get a decent yield from, and it looks like the mastery levels will eventually go all the way to 100. This tells me that Rovio has no intention of doing something truly new. They are going the way of Go! where they just re-jigger various game mechanics and attributes and call it a new “version”. The only truly new content are Chronicle Caves, and those are just (really difficult) variations on a theme — just another grind.

Still, the honest way of putting all this is that I have changed just as much as the game — I’m just burned out, mainly because of my completionist nature in game-playing. Someone just starting Epic today will probably find it to be pretty cool (though I’d imagine they would also find it incredibly daunting when they think of the time it will take to max out their character, if that is important to them).

Thanks,
sutekh137