abolish-everything:

ysera:

pissvortex:

pissvortex:

I diagnose you with gamer

ok hot take incoming:

i dont think we should be blaming children for falling prey to games intentionally designed to be addictive.

there is this predatory trend in game design where they lure kids into downloading free games and let them play the game for a couple of hours before they’re convinced (or forced, if they want to continue) to cough up their parents’ credit cards. the games in question are usually designed to get you really close to winning (or thinking that you’re close), but it’s yanked away immediately and the only way to get close again is to try over and over again, a process that usually results in you spending money. (“energy refills,” more powerful items, or even cosmetics via bandwagon effect)

in other words, the video game industry is currently set up like a fucking carnival game, only this time the carnival follows you around. i dont think coining a “gaming disorder” will help anyone until we start holding the clowns in charge responsible.

a key part of game design is creating good exits/stopping points to let your player stop the game or take a break but with a higher emphasis on cash grab game design ethical game design is hard to come by just call it being susceptible to addiction and destroy capitalism already

By conceptualising the problem as a medical issue personal to the individual and not intrinsic to the system, the system gets off scot-free and the individual is subjected to medicalisation.