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Something along the lines of hiring an expert on gambling. There's a lot of game mechanics in games like Destiny 2 which lock you in through little feedback loops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIuAeFu84kY
It's a good looking game with decent movement and gunplay, but it fully disrespects your time. RIP if you ended up buying the game in 2017 with the first few expansions because that shit gone now.
Seems like most live service games these days are built off of addiction or gambling. For example, gacha gaming is becoming more popular everyday, with their rolls and gambling loops. You can see this in games like Genshin impact. Kind of makes me miss the old days where we had games like battlefield and Call of Duty old school style, just running around playing something that we enjoy for fun.
Yup. The gaming industry got lucrative enough for the bean counters to swoop in and bastardise.