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Their wordsYou may be able to extract time and money from unhealthy players in the short term. But long term, unhealthy players leave extractive services.
Our reading
A designer’s obligation is to satisfy real human needs rather than to manufacture needs that pay.
Their wordsEvery team should ensure they are fulfilling real human needs over merely inducing needs for profit.
Our reading
The job of a multiplayer designer is to grow a community, not to make gamified numbers go up.
Their wordsWe are no longer in the business of delivering systems where players make gamified numbers go up.
Their wordsA big moment of realization for me is that most of the social sciences are not design practices.