Topic: Live service future

@MaulTsir It’s veering a little off-topic, but if you’re interested in the concept of creators of technological services unintentionally developing addictive monsters that snowball out of control due to corporate monetization schemes, then you should check out “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix. It’s focused mainly on social media but the concept is the same — the longer you can keep a users eyes on your product, the more advertising moneys you can generate so the idea is to keep this person’s attention as long as possible, regardless of whether you are distributing truthful or virtuous information. Just eyes on the platform is all they want, at whatever cost. As the some of the early creators of Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. have started to see how the ecosystem they created turned into an addictive and manipulative platform some of them jumped ship. One of the most telling things is that these early developers don’t even allow their own kids to access the product they helped create because they know how habit-forming and predatory it has become. Many of them say this was never their original intent, but it snowballed into what it is.

The same could be said for live-service, to a degree. At its core it serves a good purpose, but the monetization aspects of it will encourage taking advantage of that addictive nature the games tend to create.

I’m not trying to be doom-and-gloom and judgemental, so I hope no one feels like I’m on a high horse. There are plenty of other industries that become an unhealthy addiction (sports, eating, gambling, travel, politics, etc, etc….)

@Th3solution sorry for the late reply busy week or so. But yeah I've actually seen The Soical Dilemma, and this was sort of on point with what we where discussing about live service games, the guys creating them probably never intend them to become the monsters they turn in to. Similar to a car, they only knew they needed seat belts after the crashes until they happen you would never think of the safety net.