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H Rassy
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Its a big thread on reddit. Not all that remarkable but 1 thing did stand out for me.

They deny the game is addictive.
Not every player is addicted but quiet a few are,how else can you explain playing 6 hours+ a day,skipping meals and what not.
Every game is addictive to some extend and in that way the question is kinda naive.
Playing games gives satisfaction in your brain,hormones and what not get released and that makes it addictive to at least some extend. I really don't understand how they can deny this,its not unique to runescape either.

03-Apr-2019 13:22:07 - Last edited on 03-Apr-2019 13:23:15 by H Rassy

UrekMazino
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Lol, the 6h logout timer was the funniest part imo.

> Omitting the fact that RS3's timer is 23 hours
> Omitting the fact that it does not stop you from immediately logging back in

Its existence was merely to curb bots (doing a bad job at it I might add), and nothing to do with forcing players to take a break. °l||l° Modest Skillers T7 Citadel | Skilling clan recruiting players. °l||l°
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03-Apr-2019 17:53:17

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Loki said :
Link to source?
I haven't read anything from these but here's what Google came up with:
https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/b8kymy/jagex_appears_before_uk_parliament_inquiry/
https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/b8p0vi/jaxing_lying_in_parliament/
Jagex before UK Parliament - pages 1 and 6 appear on Google @Chee__RS
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03-Apr-2019 20:07:03

Loki
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Yeah I watched the livestream recorded on Parliament United Kingdom website - https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f0d28219-b073-416c-8b8c-6f546d3934ec

So many things Jagex replied with are questionable as to the validity/truth of such answers lol.... Seems like they tried to avoid answering about several things they were questioned on as well...
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04-Apr-2019 19:02:48

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Fishing may be addictive as the DCMS guy called it "neverending", but Jagex replied no the game is not addictive because of dailyscape. They have 10-15 minutes a day things for the players so it is not addictive.

Funny that the DCMS person asked what is "fishing" in Runescape and Jagex sort of said it is something you sit there and AFK. :D

09-Apr-2019 04:41:38

J R Kerr
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They did a study on monkeys ringing a bell to stimulate stacking crates and bein rewarded with a banana. They posited dopamine would be released in the brain when the banana was rewarded, and they were wrong. The dopamine floods the brain at the sound of the bell before the behavior.

Then they changed the reward schedule introducing a variable of MAYBE and that made the amount of dopamine released to the brain DOUBLE.

Thats paraphrasing wolfgang koehler's mentality of apes off the top of my head. I aint even a pysch guy, but I have three degrees, so yeah
gambling is addictive
, and the UK has many more laws about gambling than the USA.

also fun thing... none of yall ever take acid. its an agonist not dope, so it messes up your brain's ability to produce dopamine, and then you can't perform behaviors like... sitting still or brushing your teeth. Your hands float around like you have parkinson's. There is that one nobel prize winner guy who says acid made him smarter but his hands fly around like a techno dancing girl with a glowstick. Its ridiculous.

But yeah thats how game theory works. Its meant to be addictive with a variable of "maybe" somewhere in its functional expression.

This spin the wheel and MAYBE win a prize stuff was always gonna get Jagex in trouble. We been tryin to warn em, but...
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09-Apr-2019 05:08:00 - Last edited on 09-Apr-2019 05:38:03 by J R Kerr

J R Kerr
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actually... look... I have a masters degree and my thesis was on crime cinema of japan from the 1960s, so I know a metric fuck ton about the Yakuza, what the Yakuza did to Konami, and the more I think upon this... I know a smidge about Peaky Blinder, Kray Twins, Albanian Mafia, and... I wanna say Crocodile Gang (nevermind thats Hong Kong), but not sure which gangsters run gambling in the UK today.

so... parliament may be like "jagex not guilty of gambling" for a headline, but any headline with "jagex" and "gambling" in it will attract the attention of gangsters, so... they need to secure themselves, and not simply with security guards and insurance, but... the honest best foil to gangsters is... wait for it... hollywood.

so in england I guess that'd be like BBC, SKy, or maybe even netflix, but get some sleazy media people involved post haste to start developing like... "Adventure Time with the Barrows Brothers"

Its kinda because gangsters are either Bakuto or Tekiya. The bakuto will break your legs like debt collectors (thats a UK thing, and it doesnt happen in America where we're all armed), and the Tekiya bought a bunch of movie studios like Toei.

Jagex must save itself with some film/tv development now. Gangsters are coming. They always do.

edit/add: if you got chinese speaking POC ask em to pitch development to jack ma for cartoon or something. I am so very for real.
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09-Apr-2019 05:19:16 - Last edited on 09-Apr-2019 05:21:26 by J R Kerr

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