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It’s Never Been More Obvious That You Suck at Video Games - WIRED

It’s Never Been More Obvious That You Suck at Video Games - WIRED

It’s Never Been More Obvious That You Suck at Video Games - WIRED
Dec 04, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

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Today, fed on leaderboards and YouTube clips, we know our tawdry little island in Animal Crossing, with its sad weeds and aimless paths, cannot compare to someone’s sprawling paradise of stately mansions and beach-front orchestras.

In his book Critique Play and Design in the Age of Gamification, the academic Partick Jagoda argues that many modern games are entirely “economized.” Examining Candy Crush Saga, he points out that all achievements are tracked and ranked: Players are assigned a numerical score, a rating on a three-star system, and their performance is plotted on a leaderboard, linked to their Facebook.

Another 2018 study, in Communication Research Reports, posited that the good feelings games generate in players (senses of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to other players) are tempered when recast through the competitive framework of a leaderboard, where players are forced to make upwards and downward social comparisons.

The participants played a video game, then some were shown a leaderboard that placed them in the top or bottom quartile of players.

Players had more fun when they were placed at the top end of the leaderboard when making "downward social comparisons," than when they were given no feedback at all: They felt competent, and felt a sense of connection with their opponents on the leaderboard.

The point here is that ranking human beings on a mammoth leaderboard isn’t a great way to organize society, but in the right context, it’s a thrill.

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