I was just hanging around in the Arcade when I realized just HOW many different games are in there. And then I realized that the reason I forgot how many there are is because there’s literally no reason to play any of them because Milk Jug Toss exists.
And that’s such a shame! Because there’s some really fantastic and fun arcade games, but the vast majority of them give you so few tickets, so why would you even play them? Even if you’re absolutely abysmal at Milk Jug Toss and you can only get 3 jugs down, that’s still 270 tickets, which is a lot more than most games in the Arcade get you even if you do really well at them.
If you’re competent at MJT, you can average ~3,000 tickets per minute AT LEAST. That is so much. It’s such a large amount of tickets, in fact, that there is honestly no reason to ever play any arcade game after you’ve gotten the achievements for them. Even Coin River, which costs 60 tokens and often takes multiple minutes to complete, gives you around 2,000 tickets if you do well. MJT costs 15 tokens and takes 10 seconds, and it also gives 2,000 tickets if you do well. Honestly, it’s ridiculous.
But on the other hand, MJT was pretty much my lifeline in getting the Wowozela. During a double ticket event, you can grind out MJT for about 6-8 hours to get the required 2.5 million tickets for the Wowozela. I think I would lose my mind if it took any more time than that. I understand the reason it costs so much is so that trolls can’t just immediately grab it and start annoying people with it, but if it was any harder to get than it currently is with Double Ticket MJT, that would be kind of overkill.
So I have a few suggestions on how to balance things out to make it so that all the games in the Arcade are worth playing.
- Make Milk Jug Toss more expensive. It can continue being the fastest way to get tickets, but it should not be both the fastest AND the most cost-effective. That’s just overpowered. It should be AT LEAST double its current price. Just because it lasts 10 seconds doesn’t mean it can’t also be expensive. Honestly even 40 to 50 tokens per play would be reasonable, just because MJT is that good.
- Make other games that are much slower but still have similar payouts to MJT, like the coindozers, cost much less.
- Buff nearly all of the Arcade games’ payouts, and buff them quite significantly. I don’t know if you had some kind of balance you were trying to maintain with the old payouts, but whatever balancing you had was completely flipped on its head once MJT was added. So it’s about time everything was re-balanced anyways. Even if all the Arcade games were only half as good as MJT, I’d be happy. As long as I don’t feel like I’m just getting pennies for playing them. Keep in mind you’re not just paying with tokens, you’re also paying with time.
How about this: try to balance the games by giving them two of the following qualities, but NEVER all three.
- It’s fast
- It’s cheap
- It pays well
If the game is fast and pays well, it should be expensive. If it’s cheap and it pays well, it should take a while. And if it’s fast and cheap, then it shouldn’t pay very well.
If these changes were implemented, I can’t begin to express how happy it would make me. Because I love all the games in the Arcade, but their payout is just so pitiful that I can’t help but feel like I’m wasting my time by playing them. “Why am I bothering to play these when I get so much more from MJT?” I keep telling myself that it’s because they’re fun, but that’s just not a good enough answer to make that feeling go away. I need a genuine reason for me to feel like I’m not just wasting my time (and my tokens).