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nippeee
How does people not get bored of this game? I have that trouble when I don't get any good scores in 2-3 days, and i start to suck after that. So what you guys do to keep interest in this game?
Zare
I'd suppose the majority of the players keeps coming back to it because

a) there's always new content. mappers keep creating new stuff every day and there will always be interesting music to play for all tastes
b) the nature of the game allows for playing it whenever you're bored or dont have a lot of time to do anything big and just want to pass the time (think League of Legends queue)
c) it's competitive. this only applies to a small margin of players but there's the people that have the time and motivation to keep playing to get better and beat others. it's a sport to them.
d) the community, while having its issues, is actually pretty kind. You can spend hours on the forums or the ingame chat just talking to other people
KanoSet
i didn't make any good scores in 2 weeks but i wouldn't say i'm bored
play for fun and download more songs and you'll be fine

Reset- wrote:

Quitting this game is hard
Zare
As a matter of fact i can only think of a handful of people that actually quit this game after being really active, and I would suppose some of them are still playing on other accounts so yeah..
ZenithPhantasm
I hate rhythm games and yet Im stuck playing this circle clicking game. Help me pls.
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nippeee
I did have a wrong attitude before. If i didn't FC, i didn't conplete the map. Then i played bit too hard maps for me for like month. Then troed those maps i wanted to FC. And i did. I gpt huge amount of pp in a month. As ypu can see from my top scores. Then i quit for a wek and now i can't do anything. So should i now play bit more difficult maps to keep interest on?
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nippeee
These typos omg
ZenithPhantasm

-Urgod wrote:

These typos omg
Use the god damn edit button
pandaBee
If you spill water all over your tablet quitting is easy.
Minhtam
For me, I set my priorities straight - when it comes to music and rhythm games, I play them primary one reason - to listen to and discover new music. So whatever I do in this game has to be related to that goal.

The biggest mistake aspiring players make in this game is to set too unrealistic goals - attempt to make it to the top of the rankings by playing Insane/Expert difficulty maps (and only those maps) and farm for PP. It's called the "I want to be as good a Cookiezi" approach. But from that approach, only two outcomes come out of it.

The first outcome is that the player is actually good enough to make it to the top of the rankings. That's extremely rare.

The second outcome (and the one that happens 99% of the time) is that players, when PP farming, hit a complete wall, don't understand why they're no longer gaining any PP, then come to the (false) realization that this game is too hard for them and thus it's just not worth their effort and time to actually put in the work to be good, and then quit.

What players who fall under the second outcome do not realize is that there's more to osu! then just playing osu!. First, by playing just the Insane/Expert difficulties, you miss out on half of the beatmaps you can potentially play. That narrows your music library. Second, there are three other game modes (and hopefully a fourth by the time the big new update comes out) that players can try. Third, you can create your own beatmap and also customize your own skin to enhance your gaming experience. And that's not to mention the Multiplayer aspect of the game, which players play mostly to have fun and meet new people. Many players do not realize this. They just see this game as "Oh, that looks cool, let me try it... oh, this is too freaking hard, it's not worth it" and they don't try to understand the true beauty behind this game.

I guess that's why most players quit and I'm still here.
ithgyu
It depends what you play for and what you want to get out of it. Some people play to listen to the music, some play to farm pp, some play to set good scores. Personally I play to improve and to be good at the game. A lot of my time spent on osu is training things that I am specifically weak at. I like being good at things that I invest a lot of time into, and I want to have to invest a lot of time to be good for it to be worth while. There is nothing satisfying about mastering a game that takes 2 hours to master. However a game that takes years, now thats cool.
Roxy Lalonde
I like playing osu! and beating people (overcompetitive much). When I'm not solo practicing, I like to hang out in multis, talk to peeps, and do stupid things like FC maps on NF.
Infevo
First and most importantly, if you are not much into music to begin with I can understand this won't keep you entertained. Another thing is that you can combine this passion for music with a very common competitive spirit when you play for rank and compete with friends and others. The game also is very diversified since there are tons of tracks and maps to play.

I think this is basically why people stay interested in it.
trebby
It's so hard to quit because once you really get into the game and start earning ranks consistently it's hard to let all that time gaining ranks go to waste. Osu! is one hell of an addicting game.
The Gambler
I'd say my tastes in music have degenerated from mainstream social butterfly to downright plebian weeaboo. Because of osu.
Now half my music playlist are meme songs and anime openings.

I wouldn't say that I hate it though. New songs are my primary motivation to play more.
StephOsu

The Gambler wrote:

New (nice) songs are my primary motivation to play more.
HerO_0110
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I Give Up
Haven't made a good score in 2 years not bored x_x
-JaZe-
If you get bored, you could, idk, quit?

I get motivated to keep trying when I can't seem to get good scores. Also, music is love, music is life.
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