Grind mechanics were always shit and are purely an annoying trick that developers use to pad out gameplay and prevent you from finishing the game through an artificial barrier.

Alternatively thanks to muh 'modern' gaming trends, it's used as a way to prevent good players from getting cosmetics and making sure they have a painful time accessing content generally that's locked behind a pay wall. Stating the obvious I know, but grind mechanics have gotten far more insidious than what they used to be. It's another one of those features in a game that I deliberately look out for to avoid. They all do it to a degree now even on singleplayer games which is why I claim there's fuck all out there to play, paywall live services don't count as games in my eyes.

I don't mind some basic exp or skill point grinding ala Kenshi or Fallout but I better be able to do it within a fairly short span of time.

Grind mechanics were always shit and are purely an annoying trick that developers use to pad out gameplay and prevent you from finishing the game through an artificial barrier. Alternatively as is often the case in modern gaming, they use this crap in order to prevent good players who can speed run this shit pretty easily getting through content too fast.

Alternatively thanks to muh 'modern' gaming trends, it's used as a way to prevent good players from getting cosmetics and making sure they have a painful time accessing content generally that's locked behind a pay wall. Stating the obvious I know, but grind mechanics have gotten far more insidious than what they used to be. It's another one of those features in a game that I deliberately look out for to avoid. They all do it to a degree now even on singleplayer games which is why I claim there's fuck all out there to play, paywall live services don't count as games in my eyes.

I don't mind some basic exp or skill point grinding ala Kenshi or Fallout but I better be able to do it within a fairly short span of time.