<aside> 🕹️ Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment, educational, exercise and/ or experimental purposes.
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Games in today's age are intentionally being designed to be grindy and provide less benefits so that you the players are incentivized to use in-game transactions. This is a dark pattern which is becoming predominantly prominent in the video game industry.
This is also discouraging as one doesn’t feel rewarded and satisfied while playing. An item you obtain by grinding for a month does not feel rewarding if another player can just pay to get it, these games modeled as pay-to-win. This also aggravates gaming addiction, as the game only becomes nearly rewarding if one is spending an unhealthy amount of time playing it.
Loot boxes are also a huge problem as it is another form of gambling and is often unsupervised and unregulated. The most harmful repercussions of this are seen by gambling addicts who had successfully found gaming as a healthy alternative for their gambling addiction but now are again facing the same problems.