Subj : Re: Video Games
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Aug 24 2021 02:52:48

  Re: Re: Video Games
  By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ARELOR on Mon Aug 23 2021 02:48 pm

 > -=> ARELOR wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
 > 
 >  > IOW, I did it to spend 'chat time' with my sons.
 > 
 > 
 >  AR> I have noticed a similar trend with browser games. People starts
 >  AR> playing because they want to play the game, then keeps playing because
 >  AR> their friends are there despite the fact they have learnt to hate the
 >  AR> gameplay :-)
 > 
 > LOL
 > 
 > Well, I play 'live' games too - board games, etc. and it's mainly for
 > the social aspect. I'll play a game that's not my favorite with people
 > that I want to be with, but will turn down my favorite game if it's
 > with a jerk. :-)
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... I have a step ladder - I never knew my real ladder.

With games that are social in nature (such as trading and economic games) I can
get that. I certainly make a rule not to play games with people I would not
share any other sort of fun with. Half the game is talking with friends.

With games that are brainy strategic or tactical exercises, the social aspect
vanishes, because everybody turns off their social part of their brains while
the math part runs hot. Nobody dares talk because they are too busy trying to
guess their chances of shipping cotton through a given port before other
players do it, and how both success and failure would affect the final score.


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