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I need your gaming experience in the short survey also guys, only 5-10 mins thank you!

hey guys (and girls), thx for your take on your hours on gaming. i recently made a poll on "general gaming". if you have 5-10 mins and want to learn more about your gaming motives, feel free to share your opinion! https://www.sosci.geronto.phil.fau.de/gaming_fau/?q=Gaming_Umfrage

And if so, have you ever wondered exactly why you have a problem with gaming? Here are a few questions about your gaming habits that I’d like to explore as part of a research paper. The survey only takes five to ten minutes, and you can learn something about your reasons for gaming...

the diablo series was probably developed by a few master minds who knew exactly how to implement very addicting mechanisms. i know a few of these stories, and I have to admit, I was a heavy gamer at Diablo 2 online for years in my youth

oh you got your wife in the same boat,I bet thats pretty good for you

is there a rule for that here? if so, I didnt know. no problem I play for like 1-2hours per week max at the moment due to stressful obligations in RL (studying, keeping up with money, constantly diagnosing and repairing my car lol etc). However I was a heavy gamer since I started with a...

yeah right, that certainly adds to it. sometimes I think we have to take into account the different times we lived in: i drive a bmw e34 from 91' for example. this car was absolutely beautiful and very well thought out/ engineered ("built for decades"). if you look at todays productions...

playstation consoles are not the major problem. its the games who get more and more expensive

yeah, as long as you pay taxes you probably will not find working disorder

....and what genre you like most?

right, the problem is, there hasnt been an industry yet loading gardening with excessice releases of dopamine - as there has been a whole industry for gaming.

i know this is very old, but yes gaming will change areas in your brain if you are on the spectrum of gaming disorder - like the rewarding system. real life example: you have fun with ur friends or at social gatherings before you started gaming. after a few weeks/months/years social gatherings...

regarding the last post: maybe the virtual world is "helluva" lot more enjoyable than the real world....but then its called a disorder for good reason. i understand your point of view, because, as a former heavy gamer myself, you can spend thousands of hours in a joyful manner and live different...