Catch ALL the Pokémon!
Once I start...
I miss the early days, when playing Pokémon was pure fun. I was participating for the first time in a massive fun and funny cultural trend, I wasn't taking it seriously, and I was having fun.
Hoe do you fight getting addicted to things that are designed - by clever, creative, well-informed people - to be addictive?
For me the fun starts to drain when playing becomes compulsive, when I just "have to" have the next one, and the next level, and what if a rare 'mon shows up just now so let's keep the game open forever.
Young me had the right idea when she refused to get into videogames because she knew I have an addictive personality.
Present me saw the smartphone availability, and then oops, now you're hooked.
I don't know how to make it fun again.
I wonder if any of you who've been at this gaming thing for way longer have any ideas, strategies you could share. I don't think I'm alone, not on LJ and DW, in having the "addictive personality" issue. ;-)
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I miss the early days, when playing Pokémon was pure fun. I was participating for the first time in a massive fun and funny cultural trend, I wasn't taking it seriously, and I was having fun.
Hoe do you fight getting addicted to things that are designed - by clever, creative, well-informed people - to be addictive?
For me the fun starts to drain when playing becomes compulsive, when I just "have to" have the next one, and the next level, and what if a rare 'mon shows up just now so let's keep the game open forever.
Young me had the right idea when she refused to get into videogames because she knew I have an addictive personality.
Present me saw the smartphone availability, and then oops, now you're hooked.
I don't know how to make it fun again.
I wonder if any of you who've been at this gaming thing for way longer have any ideas, strategies you could share. I don't think I'm alone, not on LJ and DW, in having the "addictive personality" issue. ;-)
If you prefer Dreamwidth, you can reply or read the
comment(s) there.