So don't buy in. Financially, I mean. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, April 02, 2015, 19:48 (3329 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, April 02, 2015, 19:51

EVERYONE is trying to manipulate you, to one degree or another.

There is a difference between manipulating you for your benefit, or for your harm.

If I go to see a film, I would hope the film manipulates my emotions in some way, or else why would I go see it? I want to be excited, scared, or whatever else the film does to me. This manipulation is to enhance the experience.

However, you can manipulate in ways that do harm, such as wasting time, or using psychology to get people to keep playing when there's really no reason to.

The need to resort to that sort of manipulation is a de facto admission you are not confident in your game and its ability to be fun on its own. Period. Yes that sentence was absolute.