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Contrast [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]], the opposite condition.

* More people come into my office complaining of this disease from ''[[City of Heroes (Video Game)|City of Heroes]]'' than any other game. Some would argue it's the [[Trope Namer]].

** Not helped by the fact that players who have remained subscribers for a long period of time are occasionally awarded more character slots. A player is also able to buy more slots now as well.

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** Seemingly ''enforced'' by the game, as subjobbing will often lead you to leveling classes that you hadn't quite anticipated to in order to play the main class at its full power. Having multiple jobs at max level only compounds this.

*** Though some players with money to spare will create the maximum number of characters allowed per account in order to circumvent the 10-pots-per-character gardening limit, resulting in large amounts of income every 5-6 days with little effort beyond "plant seeds, water after a few days, harvest a few days later." However, a character has to have existed for 3 months before they can receive the maximum gardening yields.

** A minority of players pay for more than one account, and play both at the same time using third party tools. While the prospect of having a "pocket white mage" to follow you around and obey your every whim has obvious advantages, many players regard the practice as cheating. Square Enix have never adopted an official stance on the issue, which isn't [[Money Dear Boy|too suprising]].

** A minority of players pay for more than one account, and play both at the same time using third party tools. While the prospect of having a "pocket white mage" to follow you around and obey your every whim has obvious advantages, many players regard the practice as cheating. Square Enix have never adopted an official stance on the issue, which isn't [[Money, Dear Boy|too suprising]].

* Various ''Iron Realms'' [[MUD|MUDs]] seem to cause this reaction.

** This is the case with just about any MUD without re-morts.

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** Ever since [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]], this was fixed with the GTS, meaning that one only has to have a single cartridge to get all the Pokémon, not to mention the fact that you can trade for all the ones you can't get there over Wi-Fi.

*** That, of course, considering you are the sort of player who has no other friends who play Pokémon. Trading has always been a staple of the series, and thank goodness the DS has native Wi-Fi connection instead of Link Cables. With easy Internet access, it's fairly easy to get every Pokémon (at least the non-legendary ones) just by making a request thread in [[Game FAQs]].

** The really Anti-Alt nature of the Pokémon games comes from the fact that no Pokémon game (even spin-offs) ever had such a thing as multiple slots. If you ever wanted to try playing with another starter or try a [[Self Imposed Challenge]], you either had to conform to erasing all your data or get a new cartridge. Or, of course, resort to emulation.

** The really Anti-Alt nature of the Pokémon games comes from the fact that no Pokémon game (even spin-offs) ever had such a thing as multiple slots. If you ever wanted to try playing with another starter or try a [[Self-Imposed Challenge]], you either had to conform to erasing all your data or get a new cartridge. Or, of course, resort to emulation.

*** A flash cart is an excellent remedy for this, as you can easily back up the "battery"<ref>A save file. Note that "'battery' file" hasn't been the correct term since the Game Boy Advance days, when many cartridges started saving to flash memory; prior to that, many cartridge-based games would save data to built-in RAM, which was kept alive by a battery in the cartridge</ref> file to, say, a computer. Many flash carts have firmwares that allow the user to create multiple battery files per game, and pick one to use before starting play.

*** And if you're against Piracy, you could alternatively use a [[Game Shark]], Action Replay, or similar device which allows you to export game battery files to it, allowing you to delete the file currently on the Pokémon cartridge itself without fear. And like Flash Carts you can even use the [[Game Shark]] to upload the previous saves back to your game cartridge or even other copies of that game.