Psychology Behind Video Game Addiction

Bond - Harshlands
Bond - Harshlands Posts: 16 Arc User
edited March 2010 in Dawnglory (EU)
http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

Read this article before the mods delete this post, because it provides insight into their very model of retaining players.
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  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    b:avoid
    ebil plan wurking.
    b:avoid
    darthpanda16: Firefox crashed on me. Aryannamage: I don't think I am a GM that would be new.
    Hawk:Do this. closing thread
    frankieraye: I'll see if we can replace the woman with a stick figure and the tiger fangs with marshmallows.//Issues like these need to get escalated quickly to minimize the damage.
    Kantorek: Yeah.. you should try it. It's awesome.
    Sihndra: Nope- not currently possible under any circumstances. Sorry.
    LokisDottir: I mean...not haunting the forums, nope nope..
    Konariraiden: You don't know what you are up against. You will lose.
    Waiting for...Hamster Packs!
    58% chance to get tokens
    41% chance to get an all class pet hamster....but they has already been freed by the magic hamster.
    1% chance to get ban hamstered with the message "Hamsters United!"
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  • Dustins_ALT - Harshlands
    Dustins_ALT - Harshlands Posts: 423 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I can tell you right now the person who wrote that article most likely is a mmorpg gamer and most likely lost most of his money and most of his life to a online game, I can quit this game and never look back and not regret it. I personal think that yes there are a lot of people on here that are addicted but I also believe there are people who play this game to interact with people from other countries and so on.

    I looked at this article in a funny way!

    PS: why are the smiley bears in slow motion? Q_Q
    pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=d5665672759051ef

    ^ my barbs built, full buff in tiger.b:bye

    I'm not going to troll anymore T_T
  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Dustins_ALT - Harshlands wrote: »
    PS: why are the smiley bears in slow motion? Q_Q

    because they be funnier that way.
    ._.'
    although it be not the bear smiley moving slowly but me just messing with your perception of time.
    (>.<)'

    now......
    >.>
    <.<
    would you kindly get back in the game?
    b:avoid
    darthpanda16: Firefox crashed on me. Aryannamage: I don't think I am a GM that would be new.
    Hawk:Do this. closing thread
    frankieraye: I'll see if we can replace the woman with a stick figure and the tiger fangs with marshmallows.//Issues like these need to get escalated quickly to minimize the damage.
    Kantorek: Yeah.. you should try it. It's awesome.
    Sihndra: Nope- not currently possible under any circumstances. Sorry.
    LokisDottir: I mean...not haunting the forums, nope nope..
    Konariraiden: You don't know what you are up against. You will lose.
    Waiting for...Hamster Packs!
    58% chance to get tokens
    41% chance to get an all class pet hamster....but they has already been freed by the magic hamster.
    1% chance to get ban hamstered with the message "Hamsters United!"
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Dustins_ALT - Harshlands
    Dustins_ALT - Harshlands Posts: 423 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    MagicHamsta - Lost City wrote: »
    because they be funnier that way.
    ._.'
    although it be not the bear smiley moving slowly but me just messing with your perception of time.
    (>.<)'

    now......
    >.>
    <.<
    would you kindly get back in the game?
    b:avoid

    I'm in a cat shop in west on my lvl 30 assassin I have 60 hours on him!b:laugh

    Bears ain't moving in slow motion now hahaha!
    pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=d5665672759051ef

    ^ my barbs built, full buff in tiger.b:bye

    I'm not going to troll anymore T_T
  • BelleFemme - Harshlands
    BelleFemme - Harshlands Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bond - Harshlands wrote: »
    http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

    Read this article before the mods delete this post, because it provides insight into their very model of retaining players.

    tl;dr



    678910
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  • ELQuAdRoo - Harshlands
    ELQuAdRoo - Harshlands Posts: 117 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bond - Harshlands wrote: »
    http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

    Read this article before the mods delete this post, because it provides insight into their very model of retaining players.

    cool story bro
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  • Moog - Lost City
    Moog - Lost City Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    *inserts another meme stolen from 4chan to make me look cool*



    And interesting article, but most of it was obvious.
  • Stayne - Harshlands
    Stayne - Harshlands Posts: 229 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Moog - Lost City wrote: »
    *inserts another meme stolen from 4chan to make me look cool*



    And interesting article, but most of it was obvious.

    Since when do meme's from 4chan make you look cool? I always thought they made you look like a tool.




    ps. omd's those sentences rhyme. I must have literary talent hidden within me!
  • Juggernaut - Harshlands
    Juggernaut - Harshlands Posts: 597 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    MagicHamsta - Lost City wrote: »
    would you kindly get back in the game?
    b:avoid

    Am I the only one who got the Bioshock reference?
    b:chuckle
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  • BelleFemme - Harshlands
    BelleFemme - Harshlands Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Juggernaut - Harshlands wrote: »
    Am I the only one who got the Bioshock reference?
    b:chuckle

    I said, would you kindly go get stepped on by a Big Daddy?
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  • Wreck - Harshlands
    Wreck - Harshlands Posts: 380 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    HAI LIGEIA!

    Sorry, had to. Anyways, back to whatever the hell it was I was doing. /Forgot
  • OhCr/P - Harshlands3
    OhCr/P - Harshlands3 Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    am i the only one wondering how long itl take for GMs to delete this post O;

    omfg im a n00b game addict FML imma go commit uber l33t suicide suicide
    Ain't i just a cutie :D
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    Some serious shiit Believe me i'd know o.o

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  • Vivre - Harshlands
    Vivre - Harshlands Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    There's been a few other game developers who have come out with the same message. It is pretty obvious.

    But I think it's notable that PWI is not sticking to the formula. All of our dailies seem to be a constant reward per lever push. End game gear that would otherwise take months of farming to obtain is easily bought with real money and very little time investment in the game itself. It may increase revenue for the game but isn't as addictive as it could be. I think we should be thankful ^^
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    What is this 'res' you speak of? b:cute
  • Ligeia - Harshlands
    Ligeia - Harshlands Posts: 1,144 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Vivre - Harshlands wrote: »
    But I think it's notable that PWI is not sticking to the formula.
    1. Make something take months and months of organized, diligent farming before you start seeing results.

    2. Wait just long enough for everyone to become frustrated with it and realize just how long it's going to take to obtain their goal.

    3. Introduce a method of efficiently purchasing the desired item with real currency while eliminating or sufficiently curtailing the need to work in-game for it.

    I don't think I need to keep going. PWI doesn't just stick to the formula, it exploits it on a whole different level.
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  • Burnout - Harshlands
    Burnout - Harshlands Posts: 2,585 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Ligeia - Harshlands wrote: »
    1. Make something take months and months of organized, diligent farming before you start seeing results.

    2. Wait just long enough for everyone to become frustrated with it and realize just how long it's going to take to obtain their goal.

    3. Introduce a method of efficiently purchasing the desired item with real currency while eliminating or sufficiently curtailing the need to work in-game for it.

    I don't think I need to keep going. PWI doesn't just stick to the formula, it exploits it on a whole different level.


    That isn't a formula to keep you addicted, it's just a shrewd way of making already addicted players spend money. Free mmo's have to operate on 2 different levels of rules, striking a balance between addictiveness/fun and profitability (a.k.a. game mechanics that drive revenue but aren't fun/addictive, ie. charms). It might seem at times that they're working contrary to their goal but that just means they're concentrating on their other objective.

    Also, humans are social animals. Having the "lever" give a constant non-interval reward isn't addictive by itself, but it IS if you know that your enemies/friends are also able to receive this "free reward", and that if you don't push the lever in 24 hours you miss that day's reward forever. So they put in dailies which give large amounts of exp for little effort. If you don't push the lever, you fall behind, because everyone else is pushing the lever. You can't get that effect in an experiment with mice >.>

    But seriously, enuff with the dam metaphors.
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  • Taboo - Harshlands
    Taboo - Harshlands Posts: 1,420 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    My momma says computer games are addicting cause the keyboard has all them keys but no doors to open. b:bye
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  • Stayne - Harshlands
    Stayne - Harshlands Posts: 229 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Taboo - Harshlands wrote: »
    My momma says computer games are addicting cause the keyboard has all them keys but no doors to open. b:bye

    Your mom gives pro life lessons.
  • Taboo - Harshlands
    Taboo - Harshlands Posts: 1,420 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Stayne - Harshlands wrote: »
    Your mom gives pro life lessons.

    Thats not all she gives....
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  • Angel - Harshlands
    Angel - Harshlands Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    My momma said, "life is like a box of choc-lates. You never know what you gonna get!"
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]youtube.com/Angelolwut
  • Vivre - Harshlands
    Vivre - Harshlands Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Angel - Harshlands wrote: »
    My momma said, "life is like a box of choc-lates. You never know what you gonna get!"

    b:chuckle ..shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

    movie was on tv a few days ago. Forgot how awesome it was b:dirty
    --

    @ Burnout: I think the argument in the article isn't referring to how game developers want to make the game more fun (to make players addicted)-- that would be an ok thing. It's how they manipulate certain aspects of the human psyche to make players addicted even if they're not having any fun at all.

    I don't know about anyone else, but I used to do PWI dailies religiously. Then at some point that was all I was doing. Then I just stopped doing them altogether because they're friggin boring. Now I hang around town all day playing with fashion. I still log on though so I guess I'm still a little addicted b:chuckle
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    What is this 'res' you speak of? b:cute
  • Angel - Harshlands
    Angel - Harshlands Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Vivre - Harshlands wrote: »
    b:chuckle ..shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

    movie was on tv a few days ago. Forgot how awesome it was b:dirty

    YES. BUBBA!
    One of my fav movies.
    you're awesome for getting my reference. b:pleased
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  • BeingHope - Harshlands
    BeingHope - Harshlands Posts: 5,013 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Rofl same thread(s) in the Off-Topic Discussion already b:chuckle
    http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=646592
    http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=651922
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    I forgot!!! Thanks forsaken for the signature b:cute
    b:chuckle I love huge catshops LOL b:laugh
  • Tigetito - Harshlands
    Tigetito - Harshlands Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2010
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