When video game addictions die.
I admit that it's a fluffy article, but he's trying to explain why we get so involved in games and then stop so suddenly.
This is one of the abiding mysteries of games: Why do they let us go so suddenly? Every gamer I know describes the same abrupt drop-off, totally unexpected, arriving after hours or even weeks of feverish play. It is like a curious, unintentional form of cold turkey. You wake up one day fully expecting to spend another four hours in an eye-glazed stupor, only to discover that the thrill is gone.What he's trying to say is that it would be easy to kick heroin if you reached level 60 and there were no blue numbers left. That's what I got out of it, anyway.
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No, actually, I think his statement is more along the lines of the addiction is a combination of the sense of accomplishment and the lack of the sense of accomplishment in everyday life.
Very few people have lives which are fulfilling in that regard, so video games take the place of that. When the progress stops, so does the addiction. This is the reason I don't have a level 60 in WoW, I get to the point where I don't feel there's any more progress, and I'm done.
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