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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3769 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I abandoned Ingress

The real problem that ARGs face, I think, is the die-off. Nobody wants to play them for more than a few weeks unless they're hardcore. With a game like Ingress, that means you've got the hardcore constantly picking off the newbs. If it were EVE or the like, the Newbs would be on their own playing field where they would be more than grist for the mill; on a game like Ingress it would only double the overhead to have a L1-8 game and a L8-16 game.

But yeah. Crips v. Bloods is a shitty setup. It turns Risk into Checkers.

PS. I've been shaving daily since 8th grade and I'm about as Arabic as Bjork.