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Have you heard of the recent Facebook scandal? Facebook "sold" YOUR DATA to marketers and third party companies so they could track your interests, manipulate your political views, and influence your decisions to buy products, THIS IS A HUGE INDUSTRY and it's no surprise it has effected the gaming industry. I mean just look at modern day DLC, supply drops, and cosmetic additives in games such as Fortnite, CoD,and Destiny. This is the world we live in.

I made a short video discussing this issue. Check it out if you're interested! What do you think about this new era of marketing?

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I'm really confused on the point your trying to make, can you please elaborate? .
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dTp wrote I'm really confused on the point your trying to make, can you please elaborate? .


Yeah! Most of the video games created by big developers are set-up based off of an evolutionary reward system that manipulates you to keep playing. Trace amounts of Dopamine and Serotonin are released in the brain to get you addicted and hooked like a drug. I recommend checking out the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. It's running rampant of the news right now!
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I used to play fortnite every night for hours, for months, and now I can barely stand the game, so therefore sir YOU ARE WRONG
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JosiahGLO wrote I used to play fortnite every night for hours, for months, and now I can barely stand the game, so therefore sir YOU ARE WRONG


"I used to play Fortnite every night for hours, for months..."
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Yeah Right now I am listening to Mark Zuckerberg regarding that data mining scandal
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Maybe you are manipulating me to stop buying games made by companies who manipulate me.

The plot thickens.
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Video games are a hobby. Not an addiction. I play games when I have time to and I feel like it. Not because I'm being brainwashed to play.
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maDz wrote Video games are a hobby. Not an addiction. I play games when I have time to and I feel like it. Not because I'm being brainwashed to play.


Everyone has freewill (arguably of course depending upon the definition, modern science points to not as much as you think). The point I'm trying to make is that these big companies have the ability to employ psychologists, marketers, and anthropologists to implement in-game incentives that *CAN* make you "addicted" to any game they see fit. Just because you don't get severely addicted to a stimulus doesn't mean others can't.
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Yeaaah no they aren't. If they are manipulating you then typing have no self control
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