Game addiction and mmorpgs.

[theotherhiveking]

usually i dislike pointing to Cracked for serious stuff, but this one is worth it.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

[Aries202]

Very interesting.

[Seher]

That's pretty much why I stopped playing most games. (I'm a lazy grinder, and I haven't even started to play the witcher 2 which I bought a week ago, isn't this madness ? :P)

Those damn mechanisms don't work any more for me. :(

[_Seinvan]

That's why the highest court in South Korea ruled that virtual goods are to be legally treated the same as real goods. And virtual goods are now a $5 billion industry worldwide.

Holy SHIT xD

[Bamm-Bamm]

brilliant pictures... especially this one:
http://i-beta.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/5/0/19850.jpg?v=1

[tikinho]

What is this post about - teach NGD how to make RO more addicting?

[theotherhiveking]

What is this post about - teach NGD how to make RO more addicting?

Yes.:play_ball:

[Nils_Dacke]

Combat oriented games also hook into another behaviour, perhaps a need, amongst humans: bonding together in packs to seek out and attack rivalling groups.

You can see it in chimps as well as in football hooligan firms or street gangs. Or hunting parties in RO for that matter. Since the common ancestor of humans and chimps lived about six million years ago, this is how long it has been going on, at least. Six million years of and urge to search and destroy.

But then, maybe if we didn't have the option of acting this behaviour out in games, we would do it in the real world, were it is illegal or have other severe consequences. Warfare is technically not illegal, but there are no winners in a modern war. Perhaps it was profitable in the viking ages, but not anymore.

Or if we didn't act it out, holding in it in, maybe we would develop psychological problems instead. We have inherited behaviours that evolved in our ancestors living quite different lives than we do today.