Whether or not it’s a good idea to farm while playing video games is an age old question. Some think of it as cheating while others find this the best way to do things. Some games are meant to be farmed and some games do whatever they can to prevent farming. Me? I’m kind of undecided when it comes to farming and here’s why.
I find that in a way farming ruins video games. It makes them not fun anymore when you do the same thing over and over again in order to get more money or more weapons. The last thing I want to do after a stressful day is to log onto my favorite video game or my video game of choice at the moment and go to the same exact spot I was yesterday to do the same exact thing I did yesterday so that I can get a couple more thousand dollars or hopefully get a few more new weapons that I can use to farm again tomorrow. Doing something that repetitive over and over again day after day makes that particular video game become boring and I’m more likely to stop playing that game all together.
Now, while I feel that farming ruins video games I will admit that I have farmed once before in order to get a trophy. In Diablo III the very last trophy that I needed to get my platinum was All That Glitters. In order to get this trophy you have to pick up 5,000,000 gold. You can only get this gold from enemies and not from the sale of your left over loot. If you played Diablo III then you know that even at the hardest setting you’re probably getting around 400,000 gold for each playthrough. Highly annoying especially when it takes well over 10 playthroughs which can take anywhere from 10-20 hours if you’re quick. So, with a little over 1 million gold to go, I farmed. I got the platinum trophy for this game in a little over 2 hours.
Even though I got the trophy that I needed and the platinum, I didn’t enjoy doing this and hated that I was kind of forced to do this in order to complete the game and get that last trophy. I feel like as much as I enjoyed this game this kind of ruined it just a little for me.
While some developers don’t care what you do when you play their game, others don’t want you to play their games like this. Take Destiny for example. Developers say that farming for loot at one of the “Loot Caves” on the map, isn’t the right way to play this game. While I tend to agree with the developers, I think that this is one of the games that forced you to farm for loot. Before the patch, which supposedly fixed the loot problem, the lack of loot was just disgusting. This was the only way to get loot which is why I stopped playing Destiny right after I wrote about the lack of loot. I was tired of farming for loot and farming for materials to upgrade my items. I began to do the same thing day after day after day and it was boring.
Final Verdict? Farm if you want…or don’t. It’s really up to how you feel like playing. The one thing I will say is that I don’t find this as a form of cheating. You aren’t altering the game in any way for your own personal gain, you’re just playing the game. It’s the same portion of the game over and over again, but If that’s how you feel like gaming, then go for it.
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