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The WSJ lines out a fairly long article proclaiming how game devs are making it harder to stop playing video games (Archive). They go on to outline such evil atrocities, such as games being free, being available on many devices, doubling as social networks, and then they go into the ugliness of new content constantly being added via landscape and storyline, as well as being able to customize your avatars. Somebody has got to stop these evil bastards before we all end up with Gaming Disorder.
“Videogames are engineered specifically to keep people playing,” said Douglas A. Gentile, a research scientist focused on the impact of media on children and adults. “They’re designed to hit the pleasure centers of the brain in some of the same ways that gambling can.”
Game developers for years have tweaked the dials not only on how games look and sound but how they operate under the hood, and such changes have made videogames more pervasive and enthralling, industry observers say.
Isn't "videogame" two words? And wait till they find out how much money we are willing to spend on video cards, they are going to lose their minds.
“Videogames are engineered specifically to keep people playing,” said Douglas A. Gentile, a research scientist focused on the impact of media on children and adults. “They’re designed to hit the pleasure centers of the brain in some of the same ways that gambling can.”
Game developers for years have tweaked the dials not only on how games look and sound but how they operate under the hood, and such changes have made videogames more pervasive and enthralling, industry observers say.
Isn't "videogame" two words? And wait till they find out how much money we are willing to spend on video cards, they are going to lose their minds.