Avoid video games that use extrinsic motivation. A video game should at least mostly rely on intrinsic motivation, meaning that the playing of the game itself is the fun part, not the reward you get for playing the game. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay, but you want to earn lootboxes, you’ve fallen into the intentionally exploitative system operating within so many games nowadays, and you need to find another game, because you’re not having fun.
It doesn’t sound serious, but this kind of thing can make depression way worse if you’ve already got depression.
this is also bad if you’ve got an addictive personality/gambling addiction or poor impulse control
this is true and i never thought about it. It’s that feeling of needing to check off all the boxes, without any actual enjoyment of it. It’s a very autistic problem for me; i crave pattern completion, but it can come at too high a cost.
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