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{{trope}}
A [[Yin-Yang Bomb]] of [[Anti
This is the case with pretty much any browser-based persistent world. As well as daily rewards to encourage regular play, you get punished for being offline too long in any of the following ways:
* You accumulate turns, adventures, action points, [[Loot Boxes]], or whatever the game calls them, which cap once they reach a certain value.
* You accumulate resources over time; by allowing them to build up, you're making yourself a juicy target for attack
* In addition to either of the above, other people are progressing while you're not.
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** Berry farming upped the ante on this, and the Global Link put even more pressure to play every day on.
* This is the [[Tamagotchi]]'s main shtick, as not attending to the creature's needs on a daily basis will eventually result in its death.
* ''[[
** Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] by ''[[The Sims]] [[Facebook|Social]]'', which refills your ''[[Spiral Knights]]''-style energy bar every 45 minutes. Now you can Play Every ''Hour''.
* ''[[Halo]] Reach'' offers extra credits for completing challenges of varying difficulty each day, and one per week as well
* Tom Nook's shop in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' restocks every day. He might have that spaceship you want, and if you don't check, who knows when it'll be in stock again? More mundanely, the game rewards loyal players with more loyalty from the local resident animals that manifests in them being less likely to move out and more likely to give the player presents. Miss more than a couple of days, though, and you'll get teased and scolded for being gone so long. Further, the town itself requires a little near-daily maintenance: saplings and flowers need watering, weeds need pulling, etc.
** And in ''Wild World'' for the DS, you sometimes get a random letter that gives you little tidbits of wisdom, one of which is "avoid boredom by playing an hour a day".
* ''[[Brain Age]]'' gives you a stamp for the first brain-training game you play each day. It also makes the stamp larger if you play three games in a day.
* ''[[
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', at a certain point early in the game, gives you the ability to level up your pins by not playing the game. The PP earned this way starts diminishing after 24 hours, though, so if you really need that SDPP, you'll want to load up your file every day. Also, the food system. 24 bytes per day (sort of). [[Subverted Trope|Until you get the Hollow Leg]], then you can eat as much as you want.
* ''[[Dissidia]]'' will reward you for checking your Mognet every day for 15 days.
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** Also, there are many one per day, use it or lose it things, like the 4k free meat from the Organic Grocery, or the use of the He-Boulder's yellow ray ([[One-Hit Kill]] that leaves all of the things a monster [[Randomly Drops]]). You find yourself logging in daily just for these things. Note that most of them are things that you have paid good money for.
* ''[[Wii Fit]]'''s anthropomorphic Balance Board tries to guilt-trip you if you don't do the body test every day.
** Or, [http://air.thecomicseries.com/comics/50/ per] ''Adventures In Responsibility'':
{{quote|Well, what the adverts ''didn't'' mention is that it's like an abusive partner that you dare not leave for either fear of what it might do, or the fact that it's ground your confidence so far into the ground, you couldn't if you wanted to.}}
* Everything related to boat/train parts at the end of recent ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games.
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[Compilation Rerelease|Gems Collection]]'' unlocks demos of Sonic's various Genesis games in the "museum" if you play every day for X days... Of course, before you can do that, you have to [[Double Unlock|unlock the museum page they appear on]].
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' offers daily quests, which provide you with gold. There are also daily random heroic dungeons, and a weekly raid boss kill which provides you with gold and Frost emblems, a hard to get currency used to buy high level gear. If you don't do the daily heroic every day, you'll miss out on some very nice gear.
** Technically, you can still get Frost Emblem gear without doing a daily random heroic or the weekly. However this requires that you get involved in raiding, which many people opt not to do.
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* In ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'', the online store changes its inventory every (realtime) day.
* Browser game Legends of [[Zork]] gives a player 30 action points to use for exploring a day. Once they run out, there is nothing else they can do for the day.
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* The ''Earth 2025'' browser-based game give you bonus turns the longer you go without logging in, but after a day or two you'll hit your maximum amount, with diminishing returns in the process, leading to the player playing once a day as the optimum amount.
* ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' likes this trope:
** Everything important you can do in ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' is linked to Energy. Crystal Energy is bought (from players using in-game currency or with real world cash), while Mist Energy slowly recharges itself over time; both are interchangeable and the game will prioritize the use of Mist Energy when it's available. Your Mist Energy takes twenty-''two'' hours to recharge fully, and is capped at 100, so if you don't play every day that free energy goes to waste.
** Further encouraging frequent play is the fact that the dungeons are semi-randomly generated according to player actions, and the seven dungeon gates rotate every two days, with the one at the bottom of the queue disappearing to make room for a new gate. If one dungeon gate leads to a stratum you're particularly fond of, you've got a maximum of two weeks to reap as many rewards from it as possible.
** There are several shops in town and between dungeons with rotating inventories, refreshed daily. Though several low-level items will always be available to you, higher-level items are only available randomly and in limited quantity.
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* The DLC ''Lair Of The Shadow Broker'' for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' offers free resources (and sometimes upgrades) every day, encouraging players to go back and accumulate them. It can be tricked by manipulating your system clock and restarting the game.
** ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' also has this... kinda. In the single-player campaign, your task is to accumulate War Asset points which represent the sum of galactic armies. However, their effective number is multiplied by the Galactic Readiness level, which defaults to 50% (so you only get to use half of what you earn). Winning multiplayer matches raises the Galactic Readiness but it becomes gradually reduced by a small amount every day (down to 50% again) unless you play again (and you can't go over 100%).
* Most puzzle apps, like ''Candy Crush'', rewards the player for loggin in every day with extra powers, lives, etc. You don't necessarily have to ''play'', only log in and accept the reward.
* In a non-game version of this, the website/app Webnovels.com (and most of its chinese predecessors and competitors) has a system of earning points to unlock chapters. You can [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|pay a fee to have automatic access to most locked content and a lot of premium points]], or you can log in daily, earn free points, and unlock more chapters little by little. That they have a Achievement system doesn'y help matters.
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