Vyralize: Over the last few years games structured around collecting new gear and loot have taken over the popular action RPG genre again, but it has always been a mystery to me as to what makes these games so addicting.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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This is definitely an intriguing question. I have found myself searching for loot in games (usually retro titles) and the thrill of potentially finding an ultra-rare item is a great incentive for me.
Having this constant feeling of reward and curiosity keeps me going.
Certainly not auction houses
Cool loot! We like to collect, acquire and repeat.
I find the whole loot thing really icky. There's something so fetished, materialistic and utilitarian about it all. Just this weird sense of hoarding all these riches and all this stuff. I understand the appeal- I've played many a game with looting mechanics, but lately it just doesn't agree with me as much. I think I'm still in the process of formulating or developing an aversion to it. Part of me feels it's a thing in videogames that isn't too good for our heads...