Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid) has an interesting rant on social video games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O

Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid) has an interesting rant on social video games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU The gist being that games like Farmville are A/B tested to maximize addictiveness and profit, rather than maximizing fun.