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Grab XCOM 2. Its a solid step forward from enemy unknown and you might not feel the same disappointment.
Maybe I didn't express it clearly enough, but I don't think I'd call it a disappointment, more like emotional trauma of losing this character.
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My little cousin was like this. His tamagotchi was fully happy, well fed, etc. But he seemed too attached to it. One day I told him "I am going to set you free, bro" and reset it. He was pretty upset about it at first but then thanked me. Few years later I saw him playing an MMO. I think it was Ultima Online. I asked him what he was doing and apparently he was ambushing and mugging newer players. I hope both things w…
I had something happen to me that was similar. I was forever scrounging for points for this cocacola thing. One day I realized I had let some expire. I gathered all of them up and dumped them in the garbage and did a little dance in my kitchen yelling 'im free!' my wife thought I was nuts. I am now on the look out for engaging patterns companies use to draw you in. Point systems are one of them.
I think about this all the time. Tamagotchi was the start. Every where I look, all I see are variants of Tamagotchi.
eg Quantified self help productivity hacking are just treating your own self as the Tamagotchi.