How Free to Play Video Games are Forced to Make Addicts

“Games are a multi-billion dollar industry that employ the best neuroscientists42 and behavior psychologists to make them as addicting as possible,” Nicholas Kardaras, one of the country’s top addiction specialists, recently explained to Vice. “The developers strap beta-testing teens with galvanic skin responses, EKG, and blood pressure gauges. If

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Crypto gaming and play-to-earn is a misnomer. “True” gameplay is expenditure of time by the player for sacred entertainment value, not secular economic value. That sacred value can later be monetized, but by being financially motivated first, the atomic value swap of the “game” is polluted and becomes more akin to Mechanical Turk than gameplay. To ... See more

Here’s the business case for social media platform success: Create a recommendation engine that delivers content so insanely relevant that people spend increasing amounts of time on the site. Use that engagement to collect personal information on preferences that lead to highly targeted ads.

In other words, create social media addiction ... at all c... See more