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Games That Reward You For Not Playing.

MMOs? You save more and more money by not playing, new contents accumulates for when you start playing again.

For ffxiv, you save yourself from the frustration, look at all the contents it has now and more will accumulate in the future!
 
Sort of related:
Alice: Madness Returns gives you a trophy for putting your controller down and letting Alice hover above a steam vent for 7 minutes straight
 
This example is different that the one proposed, but I guess it fits with the thread title: in WarioWare touched there is a minigame which you win by doing nothing.
 
In FFXII there's a way to farm for infinite XP by having your party auto-fight this monster that kept spawning more monsters. Leave the PS2 on for 10 hours = tons of XP. As if that weren't enough, the only way to get this monster to appear is to stay in the dungeon for 30 minutes.
 
As mentioned earlier Fable 2 rewards you for not playing. It also rewards you mentally by not playing as game breaking bugs ruined it for me. What an over-funded stupid game.
 
Baron_Calamity said:
Prince of Persia 2008
At the end, your character undoes everything you did in the game making the whole journey pointless
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I hope you're joking/just trying to bait someone into saying a cliché line like it's all about the journey.

Same with Sands of Time, btw.
 
I think League of Legends gives you bonus experience points (like 'rested' status in WoW) if you go a while without playing. I might be wrong though, I dunno.
 
chronos4590 said:
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It literally levesl up your attacks/magic or in the game "Pins" by how long you didn't play in a week
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Came here to post this.
 
Drinky Crow said:
final fantasy 13 -- not playing it was a great reward for attempting to play it in the first place
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Drinky's name is in grey now?

That aside...

Wairo Land 2 (kind of): If you idle at the start of the game (don't get out of bed) you get taken to some different levels.

Fire Emblem DS 2: IIRC, by not playing for some time your characters get temporary stat boosts (they exire at the end of the map) which could give you the edge if you got stuck on a map and put the game down. Problem is people tend not to pick the game up.
 
Final Fantasy Type-0 has some "secret training" where you get experience in proportion to the number of hours the PSP has been sitting there; you can put it to sleep if you like. There's a two-level cap, though, so you can't let it sit idle for a couple of months and have level-99 characters.

(I thought that this mechanic would have been much more "realistic" if, instead of having you talk to someone at a collosseum-like training center, they had you go back to your dorm room to read some books and then sleep. The in-game protagonists sleeps, the PSP sleeps, the player sleeps.)

Nier had you planting flowers that germinate and bloom based on real time, not game time. If you want the best flowers, you've got to put the game down for a while and let them bloom at their own pace or fiddle with the system clock.
 
I wouldn't call beating the End by not playing a reward unless you're really stuck. You don't get his camo, IIRC your support team laughs at you for it and you miss out on one of the best boss battles ever.

Drinky Crow said:
final fantasy 13 -- not playing it was a great reward for attempting to play it in the first place
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Did Drinky Crow actually get banned or have the mods greyed out his name to make his tag even more confusing?
 
thetrin said:
Lost Planet 2.

There's an achievement for turning on the game 6 months after first playing it. Sure, you could play the game during those intervening months, but why would you?
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Dead Island has one similar to this in that if you play the game 28 days after you first played it you get an achievement.
 
This reminds me of how I can hit a tough spot in just about any game, stop, get a good nights rest and come back the next day and take that rough patch out in one or two tries.

Also, Animal Crossing sorta fits this. I mean, in one session there's only so much you can do. It encourages you to play in small bursts and return the next day.
 
The easiest way to unlock one of the best characters (
No, not Fox =P
)in Smash Bros Meele was to turn on the game and sleep for a night

It was not exactly the oficial way, but i'm SURE that at least 90% of the people reading this did this way =P
 
I guess it counts as a reward for trophywhores, Buzz World Quiz gives you a trophy if you haven't played for a week or something.
 
Sword & Sworcery EP encourages you to wait for the phase of the moon to change in order to progress through parts of the game (or you can cheat and screw with the clock settings).
 
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