One of the important parts of being a game designer is playing different games. But what do you do, do you just play the free games, or do you spend any money on paid games?
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I play old games. I don’t pay for any. I also don’t game on the phone.
My usual is to play games so old that even the rights holder doesn’t care about it anymore and I play them on an emulator online.
Sometimes it doesn’t work as there are remakes and re-releases that refresh both the gamer and the developers interest in them and they get removed from the emulator.
Mine is less than ideal strategy I admit.
I occasionally try out some of the bigger MMORPG’s that offer a non-paid access. I get into it for a couple of months but the fact that there is no end game gets me thinking “what is the point of this?” and I abandon it.
Now that I think about it, I actually paid for a year of WOW a couple of years ago. I abandoned that after about 2 months too. It got pretty lame. A group of us would get together and do a dungeon but one guy knew the whole thing so it was less adventure than job.
When on the computer, I definitely prefer solo games with an achievable success state; an ending.
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I tend to play a mixture of paid and free games. Back in the day it was a lot of browser games, but these days not so much. Also name your price on itch. Sometimes a game is offered for free on name your price - in those cases I tend to grab it for free and then come back and pay if I enjoyed it. I am mostly a PC gamer - I play probably only a handful of console games a year and don’t play mobile games.