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I lost interest in video games all of a sudden when I saw how they were made, and how all those little design elements were made to keep the player's interest a
by HPsquared 2y ago
I lost interest in video games all of a sudden when I saw how they were made, and how all those little design elements were made to keep the player's interest and attention. I was like "oh, I'm being manipulated constantly when playing this". Really put me off, like "seeing how sausages are made".
- purple-leafy 2y agoThat’s a fair reaction to seeing how the sausages are made. I wonder what will happen to the human condition when the great questions are finally answered. How did we get here, how did the universe come to be, are there aliens ?
- phito 2y agoExactly the same, I lost all interest in video games when realized I was just moving numbers in a database
- cableshaft 2y agoThis is one reason why I never really got into microtransactions. Oh, you want me to pay you money just so you can toggle a 0 to a 1 in a database to signify me being able to use a particular hat in-game? No thanks. I do still enjoy making numbers go up when I don't have to pay anything beyond an initial purchase, though (i.e. I still like playing games)
- HPsquared 2y ago"Real money" is also like this, bank balances etc.
- phito 2y agoIndeed but money can be exchanged for goods and services. My minecraft inventory, not so much.
- cableshaft 2y agoPeople are manipulated all the time in attempts to keep interest and attention, by just about everything they consume. Conversations with others, news articles and books that they read, music and podcasts they listen to. I imagine you can find it in just about anything in modern society if you look hard enough for it.