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Originally Posted by whippetofspades
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This is a fairly plausible explanation for one of the reasons EQ is addictive: http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/skinner.html.
Addiction is more likely to arise in people whose lives are lacking something. Lots of American GIs became addicted to heroin in Vietnam and forgot about it when they returned home. The rationalisation is that addiction was tied to a traumatic situation where there weren't societal support structures for them. Once they returned home to their families, most of them quit without effort. |
The problem with that theory is that most of eq is not instant gratification. Games today bore me because of too much instant gratification. There is a lot of down times and long grinding effort in play.