Great multiplayer games are immune to this because they require something of you, and reward you for the increased skill. (They dont' generally reward you outri

Great multiplayer games are immune to this because they require something of you, and reward you for the increased skill. (They dont' generally reward you outright for time investments in the way a heavily behavioral game would.) So you will still have the initial newness hit, but then it settles into a stable relationship where you agree to continue learning the ins and outs of the game, and it reveals more depth to you, much like a relationship. Such games are rare, but they do exist. Here's a way to spot it: if you hear other gamers complaining a certain game is "elitist" (or similar rhetoric), it might possess those attributes. Examples: Starcraft, Tribes, Marvel vs Capcom (high level play), plenty of others.