It's like that saying goes. "Players will optimize the fun out of a game." Game studios spend many, many man hours on just this one aspect of development. It's the reason Skyrim's systems were fewer and simpler than Oblivion and Morrowind. I believe Todd Howard himself said they were trying to get away from all the spreadsheet inducing aspects of their games.

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What they fail to realize is that optimizing and spreadsheets are fun for some people

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Exactly. I stay away from EVE online because I know that if I start it, my life is over.