You know those games you love to play that you are pretty convinced that no one else in your circles plays – but you just absolutely love it so much? That’s Black Desert Online, for me. This game is grind city, with a billion and one systems to learn that only get more confusing the longer you play – and yet there’s still something that draws me in.
Let me be completely honest though. I’m doing very little ACTUAL game play. What I’m doing is logging in, setting up for fishing, and then going afk for 15 hours until I come back to bags full of fish. Then I take a portal and go to a far away land and sell those fish, earning around 2.5 billion silver each day. I reached Guru 10 which was a nice accomplishment.
My TempusGameIt statistics show just how much time I spend AFK, and since you might not have heard of this app before, I’ll be doing a blog post about that in the near future, too.
Anyway, comfort gaming. BDO is the perfect game. It gives the illusion of me making progress without actually spending a lot of time actively playing – which I completely understand sounds backwards as far as gaming goes, but does seem to work for me on a very basic level. It’s a lot like an idle game, at least the way I’m playing lately. The thing is, the game CAN be as hands on or off as you’d like and sometimes when life is busy I want that very familiar feeling of gaming but I just don’t have the energy or the free time. With this ‘idle’ gaming, I feel like I’m making progress and working towards something. Why is that important to me? No idea, but it is. So, while the world is crazy hectic and has a lot of moving parts, I’m just hanging out with my fishing rod, and for now, that’s enough.
Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!
A Pixel Nomad 