https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g79dWuqXe5o
Really eye-opening video by Gamespot's Danny O'Dwyer running deep into the addictive traits of Destiny. I'll be honest, the entire time I watched this I just couldn't stop agreeing with him.
The sad thing is I already knew it, I knew that Destiny was sucking me in with every bright flash of an exotic, every RNG nightfall drop of anticipation turning into sorrow or gratitude.
I'm scared now, scared of Bungie and what they've become; of course this kind of focuses on the 'dark' aspects of the Bungie war machine, but I suppose a lot of good has come out of it, however at what end is this to ever end? Remember that it'll continue for 10 years...
Really, I'm not going to try and reiterate what was said in the video, all very good points made backed with scientific study.
I was already on the fence for the Taken King, if anything I'm being swayed very negatively.
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Edited by GioC3ntr1c: 7/7/2015 9:38:36 AMI mean, thanks for the video that only stated the obvious. Psychology is used In almost all gaming (and marketing) mediums. That's why "freetoplay" games like candy crush that start off easy af with beginning levels end up taking thousands of dollars from a lot people. That's why cereal and snacks are placed in grocery stories at kid height. This is old news. Even if you didn't know how BF skinner's operant conditioning model of behavioral psychology worked, you could have inferred this game was only after our money the minute activision's name appeared. TLDR; tv shows movies and now video games are not SOLELY for the purpose of bringing enjoyment anymore. It's a money game that plays off of people's wants and desires.