Megan Fox on Nostr: So I've been thinking about this more. The weird feel of ToTK's er, addictive ...
So I've been thinking about this more.
The weird feel of ToTK's er, addictive properties, is a very weird thing for them to have stumbled into, and it's possibly because they started with the contents of an entire game, and sort of jumbled what they had and shoved it all into a new one.
When you take a BIG set of armor pieces, put them in an array, mix in a lot of less valuable things, and randomly assign those to chests across the map? What you've made is a lootbox.
You didn't mean to, but, the experience of finding a chest at the end of a dungeon is now a lootbox. Because you didn't put any thought as to where things were, or make it legible where to go to find the things you're looking for, your only choice is to keep opening boxes hoping to find the one you need and, well. See what happens?
It's that kind of accidental dark pattern, writ large. They do, that, in a BUNCH of ways. And I really suspect it wasn't intentional. But.
The weird feel of ToTK's er, addictive properties, is a very weird thing for them to have stumbled into, and it's possibly because they started with the contents of an entire game, and sort of jumbled what they had and shoved it all into a new one.
When you take a BIG set of armor pieces, put them in an array, mix in a lot of less valuable things, and randomly assign those to chests across the map? What you've made is a lootbox.
You didn't mean to, but, the experience of finding a chest at the end of a dungeon is now a lootbox. Because you didn't put any thought as to where things were, or make it legible where to go to find the things you're looking for, your only choice is to keep opening boxes hoping to find the one you need and, well. See what happens?
It's that kind of accidental dark pattern, writ large. They do, that, in a BUNCH of ways. And I really suspect it wasn't intentional. But.