Bragging that your mom spent $1000s of dollars on a mobile game.
Mom has expendable cash and is literally the best at something… Don’t be too jelly now lol.
Vs half of Lemmy spending thousands of dollars on a rig that plays Stardew Valley…
I was ready to be insulted, but then I remembered that I bought a whole ass Steam Deck and I’ve pretty much used it as a Binding of Isaac machine.
My PC is purpose built for VR, I have a Quest 3 and what do I do most of the time?
Just sit in a cool looking room in VR chat and listen to music while browsing Lemmy or watching videos. Occasionally I’ll play a flat space game in VR so I can have a huge screen. But I mean… I am using the VR technically.
I started playing might and magic 9 on my steam deck, shit so old it could run on a game boy, talk about overkill
If a better game comes out, we’ll play that.
… then come back to SDV.
If it were a game that didn’t use a pay to play/continue/win model, I’d agree that she was the best at it. Or at least played it the most. It’s hard to say she’s the best when you have to spend money to do it and you aren’t playing against anyone.
Hey, it plays Crusader Kings III too
I’m at level 3000ish and played on and off for 5 years. Never spent a dime on the game.
They said she did it in less than a year.
Well that’s $1000 well spent if she found joy and entertainment and even something like success by being the number one worldwide in this game. I’ve seen much more stupider Guinness world records. And much more stupider ways to spend money.
Not necessarily. I’ve beat several thousand levels of a similar game (because I’ve trained my brain that playing it means it’s sleep time and now it knocks me out) and haven’t spent a dime.
No way she didn’t spend thousands of dollars on that fucking game.
If true they wouldn’t have pointed her to another game. Whales are the entire business strategy.
Adding thousands of levels for 1 whale is unlikely to be profitable. That’s a lot of development cost for content that likely won’t be seen. Pointing to other games by the same studio is a much better idea if you can get them to make the transition.
They would have recommended her to play other games they make with the same ad mechanics.
Talking through experience right? I’ve been playing for around 5 years and I’m only at level 3778. Never spent a single dollar on it.
I think I got to 400 and gave up. This post says all 4k in under a year. There’s no way anyone can play free and do that. Unless they’re literally a CC savant, and even then, I doubt it.
I think you’re right. Never really read the “in under a year” part.
Candy crush now has 15,000 levels. Good luck keeping up with that.
I mean, considering she had finished 4k by 2018, that is totally doable
I hate that that’s true. And that you know it.
To be fair I had to search how many levels. I would never have guessed it was that high.
Yea, they will keep making more I’m sure.
as long as this mom keeps playing they must keep making levels
Could they not add some level generation?
Is there more variations to even generate past 4k levels??
(Disclaimer idk what the levels look like beyond matching gems)There are six colors of standard candy. A 3*3 grid has over 10 million combinations.
Well, not all of those combinations are playable
Unless you spent 1000s of dollars buying saucers and hammers and lollipops or something garbage that lets you finish without actually playing.
I hate these “gatcha” gaming nonsense where you pay-to-win.
Semi-related factoid: every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it is EXTREMELY LIKELY the deck has never in existence been arranged the same way.
a factoid is something that is commonly believed to be true but isn’t, which I guess this kinda is because it’s not just extremely likely. there is a 1/80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 chance that it’s been arranged that way before. 52!
Ahhhh I’ve been ignorant about the definition of factoid!
Also I read your post as if you had exclaimed at the end: FIFTY TWO
They add 100 or so levels every week.
I dont either so I dont know. But as far as I know thats like asking for more levels on like bubble bobble or something? It doesn’t make sense to me from the screenshots I’ve seen. Even with my shitty game Dev experience, I dont see why you would put a limit on the levels unless it encourage people to spend money to “beat it”.
encourage people to spend money
Yeah, exactly that
definitely pathological
