Proposal - What if we stop calling it grinding? (Destiny)

by SonofMacPhisto , Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 10:20 (3598 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I played Mass Effect 3's multiplayer missions hundreds of times earning credits to buy random card packs in the hope of unlocking a new, rare character class. "Not fun!" some might shout... except it was. The core gameplay was fun. Each 15 minute or so playing was fun. Not getting the character? Ok, not so fun, but the devs gave me a reason to keep playing. I accepted that reason as good enough. And I had fun each round?

Cody would call this grinding and would say that technically I had no fun at all.

I say that I had a ton of fun, and because I had not reached the artificial goal, actually had more fun that I would have had if I'd been handed the class I wanted from the beginning.

Part of it for me was that some of the starting classes were so good (still rock Novaguard to this day).