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Jul. 20th, 2019 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have access to Scanner [Redacted] again. Apparently there was some sort of unannounced 'maintenance downtime.' During the period when Scanner [Redacted] was down, the App Store rating for Ingress Prime dropped a full point. At least one other reviewer complained about the accessibility barriers in Prime.
At any rate, I'm wondering if there are any other games out there that have the features I need without the features that make Ingress Prime inaccessible. Other Niantic games are less accessible to me than Ingress Prime is, so I'm not heading that way. I really can't.
The appeal of Ingress for me, to begin with, was that I could treat it like, say, Animal Crossing but with walking. If I got something done, great. If I didn't, nothing bad happened. I might end up repeating things, but it was like picking fruit or fishing in Animal Crossing-- There'll be something available later, and the repetition is part of the soothingness.
Possibly, I've been using a food processor as a blender. Niantic might be trying to optimize for food processor users.
The team aspect is nice because I like having at least the potential for social interaction around it and for cooperation, but I don't actually care about the competitive side. If there was more emphasis on the competition, I would never have kept playing.
(This is not to say that other people don't focus on the competitive aspect. Some do. Some really like the global, two team thing with 'our team' and 'their team' and score tracking.)
Scott's currently looking at the App Store to see if there are alternatives to Ingress. I tried and got frustrated. My criteria don't translate into easy search terms because they're mostly negatives. I can probably manage to translate them eventually; it's just beyond me at the moment.
At any rate, I'm wondering if there are any other games out there that have the features I need without the features that make Ingress Prime inaccessible. Other Niantic games are less accessible to me than Ingress Prime is, so I'm not heading that way. I really can't.
The appeal of Ingress for me, to begin with, was that I could treat it like, say, Animal Crossing but with walking. If I got something done, great. If I didn't, nothing bad happened. I might end up repeating things, but it was like picking fruit or fishing in Animal Crossing-- There'll be something available later, and the repetition is part of the soothingness.
Possibly, I've been using a food processor as a blender. Niantic might be trying to optimize for food processor users.
The team aspect is nice because I like having at least the potential for social interaction around it and for cooperation, but I don't actually care about the competitive side. If there was more emphasis on the competition, I would never have kept playing.
(This is not to say that other people don't focus on the competitive aspect. Some do. Some really like the global, two team thing with 'our team' and 'their team' and score tracking.)
Scott's currently looking at the App Store to see if there are alternatives to Ingress. I tried and got frustrated. My criteria don't translate into easy search terms because they're mostly negatives. I can probably manage to translate them eventually; it's just beyond me at the moment.
