Definition of «busy work»
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"Busy work" refers to tasks or activities that take up time and effort but provide little to no actual value or progress toward a meaningful goal. In the context of gaming or software development, it often describes mechanics or balancing efforts that feel unnecessary or redundant to the end user. The term implies a level of frustration with the perceived lack of productivity or purpose behind the work being done. It is used to criticize systems that seem designed only to keep people occupied rather than to improve the overall experience.
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> Balancing around those specific anchors seemed like superfluous busy work for the devs.
> I hate when games add fetch quests that are clearly just busy work to pad the runtime.
> Most of the administrative changes in the new update felt like busy work instead of real improvements.
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