Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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'It gets good if you just play 100 hours...'

I've seen that sentence, or a variation of, posted on almost every single MMO video I've ever made, and it's not the strong endorsement of the game you think it is.

If a game 'gets good' after 100 hours it either means:

- the game systems take 100 hours to become refined enough to be enjoyable
- The game fundamentally changes to an objectively better experience
or
- they need 100 hours of set up and content to be interesting

If you are forcing players to slog through 100's of hours of inferior product to 'get to the good bit', you're designing things wrong.

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