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John Carmack disagrees with your rationale: "As long as people are buying it, it means they’re enjoying it" [0] [0]https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/07/id-so

• spywaregorilla 4y ago
  That's nice for John Carmack
• alpaca128 4y ago
  John Carmack confused sales numbers with positive experiences. It doesn't take a lot of knowledge about recent game launches to see how that makes no sense. And either way it doesn't justify the business practice itself - you could apply the exact same quote to PS5 scalpers.
• nisegami 4y ago
  You could use the same argument to advocate for recreational drugs. Both they and lootboxes hijack the reward loop in our brains. For actual, buy-it-once games, I see his point, but it doesn't apply to the slot machines disguised as games nowadays.
  • bobkazamakis 4y ago
    >You could use the same argument to advocate for recreational drugs ...and it would still be accurate.
• Salgat 4y ago
  No ones arguing that they aren't enjoying the game.
• keerthiko 4y ago
  carmack is a brilliant engineer, but he's not really known for empathy or even being a good game designer. supply and demand is not really the best indicator of a positive vs predatory experience