It is just like edging for gamers. When clicking cookies has lost it's appeal the feeling of suffering for your dopamine can perovide a new experience.
So given the length of the games, some 40 min, and the fights themselves being actually kinda fun for for several secconds in a row. You enter the perfect skinner box. The random reward skinner box is the most rewarding for animals. And produces the largest addiction. The people who hate it but can't stop honestly hate it and can't stop. It just just as much an addiction as a slot machine. Then they put slot machines and grinds in the game on top of that.
Loanly alienated people with the strongest addiction mechanics possible and a society devoted to them.
That being said I like pokemon unite because it has the fun parts of that but matches are five minutes so you don't lose your entire life to it.
It is just like edging for gamers. When clicking cookies has lost it’s appeal the feeling of suffering for your dopamine can perovide a new experience.
The entire "dating sim" weeaboo game genre is based on that concept. Suffer for hours, days, or weeks, memorizing factoids about fictional waifus and playing match-3 games to grind for that pantyshot. :pathetic:
That being said I like pokemon unite because it has the fun parts of that but matches are five minutes so you don’t lose your entire life to it.
I know that some people aren't the target audience for cynically manipulative monetization, but for those who might be (and may not even know it), I advise them to watch this before diving into Pokemon Unite.
It is just like edging for gamers. When clicking cookies has lost it's appeal the feeling of suffering for your dopamine can perovide a new experience.
So given the length of the games, some 40 min, and the fights themselves being actually kinda fun for for several secconds in a row. You enter the perfect skinner box. The random reward skinner box is the most rewarding for animals. And produces the largest addiction. The people who hate it but can't stop honestly hate it and can't stop. It just just as much an addiction as a slot machine. Then they put slot machines and grinds in the game on top of that.
Loanly alienated people with the strongest addiction mechanics possible and a society devoted to them.
That being said I like pokemon unite because it has the fun parts of that but matches are five minutes so you don't lose your entire life to it.
The entire "dating sim" weeaboo game genre is based on that concept. Suffer for hours, days, or weeks, memorizing factoids about fictional waifus and playing match-3 games to grind for that pantyshot. :pathetic:
I know that some people aren't the target audience for cynically manipulative monetization, but for those who might be (and may not even know it), I advise them to watch this before diving into Pokemon Unite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0DlMvGEbA