{"id":3158,"date":"2013-07-24T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2013-07-24T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:38:45","slug":"chasing-the-whale-examining-the-ethics-of-free-to-play-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/24\/chasing-the-whale-examining-the-ethics-of-free-to-play-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/195806\/chasing_the_whale_examining_the_.php?print=1\">Via Gamasutra:<\/a> &#8220;I used to work at [company], and it paid well and advanced my career,&#8221; the person told me. &#8220;But I recognize that [company]&#8217;s games cause great harm to people&#8217;s lives. They are designed for addiction. [company] chooses what to add to their games based on metrics that maximize players&#8217; investments of time and money. [company]&#8217;s games find and exploit the right people, and then suck everything they can out of them, without giving much in return. It&#8217;s not hard to see the parallels to the tobacco industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=NksyWfag0l4:mjblRCXMbPk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=NksyWfag0l4:mjblRCXMbPk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/130294\/Chasing-the-Whale-Examining-the-ethics-of-freetoplay-games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Gamasutra: &#8220;I used to work at [company], and it paid well and advanced my career,&#8221; the person told me. &#8220;But I recognize that [company]&#8217;s games cause great harm to people&#8217;s lives. They are designed for addiction. [company] chooses what to add to their games based on metrics that maximize players&#8217; investments of time and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/24\/chasing-the-whale-examining-the-ethics-of-free-to-play-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-OW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}