{"id":90512,"date":"2016-04-12T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=90512"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:59:54","slug":"5-sinister-tactics-to-make-you-addicted-to-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=90512","title":{"rendered":"5 Sinister Tactics to Make you addicted to games"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time you hear of some fellow which died<\/a> in front of the screen playing World of Warcraft. Recently those started to die while playing Candy Crush<\/strong>. Do you realize that? All the little ladies from the selling points in the country are in danger.<\/p>\n

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Sure , the games aren\u2019t meth made by Walter White. Those who died during the game had some other health problems<\/strong> but at least half of those which read this article now know a game addict and it appears that recently, gaming dependency is recognized officially and studied by psychologists.<\/p>\n

The question is: There is somehow the chance that these games are intentionally made in such a way<\/strong> that you are made to play in a compulsive manner even you aren\u2019t pleased by it? The answer is YES, a big one. And the methods that they are using are fairly sinister. You won\u2019t believe the way they are create for the sole purpose to make us spend more and more time<\/strong> in front of the PC only to get that rare loot, finish that epic mission or whatever the heck you\u2019d like to do. I\u2019m one of you as well so let\u2019s see 5 of them.<\/p>\n

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5. They put you in a Skinner box<\/h2>\n

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What\u2019s the purpose to sweeten the truth? No matter how I say it it\u2019s still shitty. A Microsoft employee with a PHD in behavior sciences<\/strong>, having its purpose to create and study the games he wrote in an article, quote: \u201c Every step is a time arrangement, activity and reward, and there are an infinity of ways in which these elements can be combined to obtain the pattern of activity the player desires.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> observation is that the previous quote doesn\u2019t contain the words: fun, delight or happiness. This is not his problem, he is more of like the pattern of activity<\/strong> the player desires. His theories are based on the observation labor made by B. F. Skinner<\/a> who discovered that you can control the behavior of the animals, training them, using a series of impulses and rewards.<\/p>\n

He also invented the famous Skinner Box, a cage in which there is a fucking rat who has to press a crank to obtain some food<\/strong>. Which is the problem? The games aren\u2019t what they used to be. In the old times, when those were making a game you could buy it as it was and nobody was preoccupied of how much time you would have to spend in front of their game.<\/p>\n

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“ They needed to change the game rules ”<\/p>\n

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Having considered that all the money that could be obtained were already given, their only concern was for you to like the game enough to buy the next one<\/strong>. Meanwhile, the game industry has passed slowly towards a financial pattern based on subscriptions and payments during the game. MMO\u2019s on the market<\/a> are created with the sole purpose to make you play till you get blabbered.<\/p>\n

The problem is that is no way that they can create a story so complicated and with so many levels that you can\u2019t finish it unless you play thousands of hours. So they needed to change the game rules<\/strong> in such a manner the players to repeat themselves, the same actions, no matter if they liked it or not.<\/p>\n

There comes the Skinner Box in action. It\u2019s an important issue, discussed for a long time. Some of them consider the Skinner methods of designing the game are a form of human exploit. The issue is that not the games itself are fun, but they are made in such a manner that you play even if you are bored using of rewards<\/strong> carefully planned. Maybe you ask yourself as well how is it possible that a system like this is working having considering that these rewards aren\u2019t fucking real, only virtually, they have no value in real life<\/strong>. This is cause :<\/p>\n