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I feel like mobile gaming is Facebook at a smaller scale but 10x worse...not only are they trying to hook you but the hook is actively extracting money from you
by dawhizkid 9y ago
I feel like mobile gaming is Facebook at a smaller scale but 10x worse...not only are they trying to hook you but the hook is actively extracting money from you.
- gukov 9y agoBoth prey on our increased dependency on an instant dopamine release.
- notyme 9y agoIn the movie,The Insider (1999) a Big Tobacco CEO says "We are in the nicotine delivery business", substituting nicotine to dopamine and you have your Tencent and Facebook. They now are increasingly targeting women for social media gaming. [0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-31/fueled-by-wechat-female-gamers-power-tencent-s-3-billion-hit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-31/fueled-by...
- rapnie 9y agoyou are right. there was an interesting discussion on 'lootboxes' couple of days ago on HN..