This, right here, is why MMO players are so freaking cynical:

If Fun is generated by learning new skills, and you’ve been playing games for decades, it’s fair to consider the effect. You can look at these things in terms of a calcified critical perspective, and it makes for incredible rhetoric. The medium has changed substantially on their watch, though – irrevocably so. New people are making, playing, and thinking about games. It takes time to calibrate your instruments.

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