Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The Game's a Foot, or Actually a Higher Body Part That I Don't Mention in Mixed Company

I like playing games.  That is one of the main reasons for this blog after all.  Just look at the overview sometimes.  However, I have been having problems with many of the games I play online, and these problems have begun to irk me.  Most of these games I play through my Facebook account.  I am not sure if that is entirely relevant, but it could be.  Just this past weekend, I did not have access to one of my games.  At all.  It disappeared from my page.  It disappeared from the Facebook Games menu.  It disappeared from my Activity Log.  It was as if it never existed in the first place.  I couldn't even remember its actual name.  By Monday, it was back as if nothing had happened.  I was even able to continue my daily log in bonus.  Not the weirdest thing that has happened, but very close.  At least it wasn't as bade the game that couldn't download for over a week and I ultimately had to delete it from my account.  Didn't like it too much anyway, but still.  I have had other ongoing issues with some of my other games as well.  One game, which like the others I will be mentioning I will not be naming, has had some strange glitches lately.  First, there is the ongoing one where it will reset the daily log in bonus every time I play or even refresh the page.  This means I can get an unlimited number of bonuses, as well as refill my life meter, whenever I need to, but only when using my regular browser.  Whenever I play using a different browser, or computer, the games works normally.  I can get the better daily bonuses this way, but I need to wait for the life meter to refill, so I sometimes switch browsers and log into Facebook using the other.  I used to do this just once a day to get the bonus, but I have had to do so more frequently since a new group competition mode started up.  The game bunches people up randomly to help achieve certain goals, and at certain points, award bonuses, some of which are time limited.  If a team doesn't achieve all the goals within a certain time frame, the group is broken up and you join a new one.   A week or two ago, I was put into a new team.  At that point, the weirdness started.  My picture was no longer included in the game, as if it couldn't be uploaded.  None of the other people in my group had actual pictures either, just cartoony filler spots.  They didn't have any actual names either.  However, one of my teammates was racking up huge points.  Hundreds per day, even though the max one can get for beating a level is about 200, and that is from finishing up a stage.  How one player do this is all but impossible, especially since none of the other team members gain points on anything near a regular basis.  On the other hand, I'm reaching major goals every other day or so, leading to longer games sessions with better bonuses.  It is getting tiresome.  I wish I had this kind of problem with other games.  One game randomly forgets how to fully upload, leaving me unable to play at all for hours at a time.  Another randomly has some graphics drop, making it harder to figure out what my next play should be.  It is one of two games that have their daily bonus clocks reset about 10 pm every night.  This means I have to be careful with how long a play them.  I sometimes have to forego a games session because I started playing it again too late.  I didn't want to waste a good bonus if I only could play for a short time before going to bed.  Then there is the sports game.  For the past two weeks, I have been very streaky on it. I actually got downgraded in it this weekend because of a bad losing streak.  Fans of the game frequently complain that such streaks are built into the game so that players would buy extra equipment to improve their playing.  I can't be sure of this, because I never make in game purchases, but things were very bad for awhile.  One day, I would be making miracle plays, almost out of nowhere.  The next day, everything would be off by just enough, that I couldn't win unless I was perfect on every shot.  Even then, I would wind up losing the tiebreaker, as the in game physics would seem to change or the controls would be off by just a fraction.  Just enough to cause me to lose.  Who knows?  Maybe it is my fault that my reflexes are off, not the game's.  On the other hand again, with all of the weirdness I get lately, I am willing to accept all theories.

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