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[Silverleigh-drakthul]

@Deathfang-stormscale

On the topic of Belluar, he recently made a video on extrinsic rewards ruining MMOs. How extrinsic rewards eventually destroys the psychological intrinsic love to doing something.

I was just wondering a couple of hours ago:
I wonder if one of the extrinsic rewards is the need to look cooler than everyone else or having to have worked harder than others. Why do we care so much about loot? Shouldn’t we just like playing the game? Maybe the game isn’t fun anymore because everyone is focusing on the wrong things?

My personal opinion on this:

I agree playing and having fun is the all the reward a player should need.

I think the reason players believe they need or deserve to be rewarded for every act is because the game conditions them to that idea by giving out rewards for every act, even insignificant ones like walking two feet from one NPC to another.

Think Pavlov’s dogs.

From: Are all casual solo players supposed to quit on - #239 by Silverleigh-drakthul