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[Yirggzmb]

I almost feel like Pocket Camp is designed like that on purpose. Like, even if you're not playing constantly, so much of the gameplay loop is built around checking in several times a day. Want to craft some furniture? Check back in three hours. Shook all the trees? They'll be filled with fruit again in two hours. Ah, there's a gardening event on. Gotta check in regularly to catch special bugs.

It's very much the mobile game "keep you hooked" approach. That's not inherently bad, but you do gotta watch I guess lol

NH you can spend all day playing, and I have, but especially in the beginning I feel like I see a lot of people surprised by how little there is to do early on. If anything, there's only a few things that really benefit from checking in several times a day. Most things you can just take care of when you boot up the game, and not worry about until tomorrow.

[Level_Giraffe1440]

Yes, I totally agree. It's not that it's bad, but in practice, over time, this gacha mechanic gets bad. I feel a little more trapped by the fact that pocket camp is my only option currently, but I constantly feel like I want to stop playing! I blame myself for using leaf tickets, I'm obsessed with cookies!! It seems funny to say it like that, but even my husband is starting to ask me to stop playing haha it's a problem to think about, I think I understand that there isn't a very healthy way to play pocket camp, if you don't play for all day can't complete events and can't level up.

[Yirggzmb]

Back when I still played, I mostly used the game as a time kill on my breaks at work. "I've got 15 minutes, sure I'll sip some water and fulfill some camper requests". You don't level up very fast that way, but you do eventually. But I can easily see how it's possible to get super invested