Gamer demotivator

All of the following is based on my own experience, and I think that my reasoning may be useful to someone else who spends a lot of time in games and does not consider this to be something bad. Well, and besides, everyone will have (or already have) children who, due to their age and lack of life experience, may not yet understand what they might face for their excessive enthusiasm for modern computer toys. And by the way, being able to explain what’s wrong here, not everyone can, for example, the older generation, who generally didn’t play a computer in their life (like my parents), is usually limited to the phrase “turn off the computer now”. This works only at a specific time and on a specific young organism, and when a gamer is old enough and left to his own devices, there is no one to control him but himself and it can take a lot of time, when he reaches for himself the same thoughts as I have reached (or maybe he does not, who knows). In any case, when I have my children, I’ll try to start the process of “income to such thoughts” in my children as early as possible. But for now, this is just a prelude ...

Background

When I had the ZX-Spectrum, I played it. In everything. I had a notepad, where I recorded the games I played in order (I created the “Achievement” myself I still don’t know why), I typed them under 200 at the time the Spectrum era ended in my life and I got Pentium MMX. Parents then timed this event for admission to college and did the right thing. I also had a notepad for “writing” games, but there were fewer points (I don’t remember how many) during the institute studies, because the games became “longer”: Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo 2, the third warcraft, I played everything popular, began to play longer in one game and became more picky, i.e. I was tired of playing everything at that time, for example, to shoot shooters never attracted me, unlike warcraft. People "in the subject," probably guess what will be discussed next.

WWII

For World of Warcraft (I started playing with the European release) I had to “browse” the Internet home, before that I did not consider it necessary. At that time, I already ceased to be a student and became a graduate student-teacher. Yes, I’m so old that in my student days I didn’t download essays from the Internet, but I sat in libraries and rewrote them with my hands, and then retyped everything. But I was distracted, so the dependence on Vovka was very powerful, I had the opportunity to participate in the creation of a guild and be a pere-raid leader in “vanilla”, the social component in Vova was much stronger and more complicated than now, 40 raids he was digging, and this is not “Khukhra-Mukhra” for you, you need to recruit and motivate people, and so that it all comes on time and does not run into other more successful guilds, we had “scandals, intrigues, investigations ”and this social component carried away in itself no less than the game. Once, because of a protracted night raid, I overslept my exam and came to take it three or four hours later, poor students were waiting in the corridor, I still remember their faces and the phrase "there he goes." And so I am generally very punctual, but that was, it was, I repent. I still don’t remember how I somehow interfered with “riallife”, but I was then 22 and I was no longer studying, so I could allow myself more time to play. In addition, my specialty is computer, i.e. there was always something to do on the computer, in addition to games. Well, the departure from Vova began just with the departure of this social component, our guild fell apart, the game was Russified and simplified, my old game friends ran away somewhere and in the “myst of pandaria” I practically did not stop,

About Diablo 3, Heartstone, in general about “blizzards”, results and, in fact, demotivation

I am only talking about games from Lizard, because I consider them to be the most “addictive,” well, in theory, my reasoning can be extrapolated to any game that creates a similar dependence. For starters, what is the difference between old games and modern ones. Modern - endless (and especially from Lizard). They can not be passed and written in a notebook, they say passed and forgot. The most delicious, the so-called endgame content, begins when the main storyline is reached or the maximum level is reached, it seems that the plot should be the end of the game, but no - the holding process is started and it is very sophisticated - searching for and “knocking out” items, legendary and epic items (cards in the case of XC), dealings and achievements that give bonuses and force you to periodically return to the game, in short, none of the “addicted” ones will voluntarily want to stop playing at this stage. The social component (in addition to in-game) exists by itself in numerous official and unofficial forums, where thousands of players share their achievements and others, videos and game tips, advertising it voluntarily. There is a plus of games from the blizzards - it’s hard for someone who’s hooked to play anything else, and there’s a minus - he’s played for a very long time, he couldn’t play anything for so long. Well, then I turn to "you", turning to the gamer-reader and at the same time to myself, because this article is, after all, a demotivator for me too. There is a plus of games from the blizzards - it’s hard for someone who’s hooked to play anything else, and there’s a minus - he’s played for a very long time, he couldn’t play anything for so long. Well, then I turn to "you", turning to the gamer-reader and at the same time to myself, because this article is, after all, a demotivator for me too. There is a plus of games from the blizzards - it’s hard for someone who’s hooked to play anything else, and there’s a minus - he’s played for a very long time, he couldn’t play anything for so long. Well, then I turn to "you", turning to the gamer-reader and at the same time to myself, because this article is, after all, a demotivator for me too.

Demotivation

1. You are one among millions of players, and do not differ from the others, except for the time spent on the game, someone spends more time on it than you, someone less
2. Farm of game items for you is hundreds of hours and days of your free (and not free) time, and for game developers this item is just numbers in the game database and nothing more
3. To create a game item, the developers needed much less time than you (and thousands of people like you) to “knock it out”, everything is controlled by the “chance of falling out” parameter, which the blizzards can twist as they want
4. With the release of the new add-on, all your (and thousands of other players) farm gear acquired by hundreds of hours instantly turns into garbage, continuing to play you will spend your time knocking out a new gear, which will also turn into garbage and so on indefinitely, but yours days and nights of the time spent on the trash no one will ever return to you, and the new “trash” blizzards are drawn in a year or two and you will pay them for it with money when you buy an addon and time for knocking out
5. If the previous three points do not infuriate you and it does not seem to you that you are bred (like millions of other players like you), then you have not yet matured, this is bad
6. To be the best in a game rating, to compete with millions of others, it makes sense only for self-assertion, but why self-affirm in the game, if you can assert yourself in real life
7. Are you so stupid that you can’t think of a smarter way to spend your time?
8. Are you so weak-willed that you cannot force yourself to do more useful things that will be much more useful to you in life than game experience and garbage items that you yourself will forget about in a couple of months (as new ones appear)?
9. While you play, others learn, work, raise children, spend their time more efficiently than you
10. Personal time in your life is the only thing that you can neither buy, nor return, nor borrow, but you yourself and voluntarily spend it on a “brain infection”