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Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod
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That's what I was driving at.
There is no going back. Game design is a reflection of what's going on culturally. Goldfish attention spans with the ability to only focus on things that INTENSELY interest you.
There is an unpublished study done that games like LoL and DOTA2 are the perfect model of dopamine destruction. They basically get the brain use to a certain amount of pleasurable hits per millisecond that is very unnatural to our current DNA. These people "train" their brain's dopamine unknowingly while playing these MOBAs nonstop every day for several hours a day essentially causing permanent alterations in dopamine transport and dopamine reward.
The majority of hardcore MOBA players as a result cannot enjoy anything except MOBAs. Wish I had a link.
MOBAs and similar dopamine models to MOBAs such as Pokémon Go are the future of gaming.
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definitely believe it. My brief time playing League was one of the few where I would have CEVs of the game when trying to sleep. Makes me feel cracked out and leaves me with a hangover the next day. Civ series has a similar effect -- has something to do with doing very repetitious behaviors in a game at maximum speed. I can play many more hours of an actually decent game without any similar effect.