Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Blaming the games

Edward Castronova at Terra Nova wrote an article about Zynga's and Facebook's decline. He thinks the reason is the lack of payoff at the end:

Are there genuine human fundamentals behind the demand for Zynga products? Yes and no. Yes: There are some people with psychologies such that they want or need mindless, endless, repetitive tasks rewarded on a Skinner Box model. But there are far more who will enter something that looks Skinner-Boxish on the assumption that there will be a major payoff

World of Warkraft...

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