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[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's well known that Epic and Blizzard hired psychologists specifically to make their games more addictive. I would be very surprised to find out that Microsoft and Sony didn't.

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The white paper about creating addictive games that I read years ago while addicted to wow was written by someone at Microsoft.