Like the other guy said, its mostly just fear of missing out. You would quit, but what if you miss the DOPAMINE.
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Dark patterns in gaming are the absolute worst and although I understand that they’re structured to cater to the worst impulses in human thought patterns, I still don’t understand why people can’t quit.
Then again, folks don’t quit drugs easy either.
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DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 week ago
When already planning to quit again after a gacha relapse a few years back, I remember thinking “I’ll wait till this event is done”, but then the next event starts, then the next, then the next and they all overlap at least a little and I didn’t want to miss out.
These games made me feel like it was important " work", that I was building up to something and that mastery and improvement was as easy as showing up and doing dailies.
Yeah, dark patterns in gaming absolutely suck