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>Most of the case, when you have an addiction, it's not coming from the product Except the products (specifically "live services" and "free to play" games) are
by Causality1 8y ago
>Most of the case, when you have an addiction, it's not coming from the product
Except the products (specifically "live services" and "free to play" games) are specifically designed to cause addiction. They're Skinner boxes. I forget the title of the work but there's a book on designing casino games that's required reading at half of these dev studios.
If it's possible for a company to get an ongoing revenue stream from a game then the game is designed to extract the maximum possible amount of revenue from its players.
- bladewolf47 8y agoAre referring to Addiction by Design? This article reminded me of that book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13748038-addiction-by-design https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13748038-addiction-by-de...
- Causality1 8y agoBingo. That book is one of the greatest driving forces behind loot boxes and live services.
- Animats 8y agoClickbait link. Site wants a sign-in. Wikipedia article.[1] Author's site.[2] Princeton University Press PDF of book introduction.[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction_by_Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction_by_Design [2] https://www.natashadowschull.org/addiction-by-design/ https://www.natashadowschull.org/addiction-by-design/ [3] http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9156.pdf http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9156.pdf
- r3bl 8y ago> Site wants a sign-in. Interestingly, they show the pop-up only in the US. Accessing from other locations doesn't show it.