You have a new subscriber. Don't know if I'll ever outright quit gaming as it has helped me create so many meaningful relationships and inspired me to pursue voiceover work, but I recognize that I'm prone to addiction and I want it to go back to being a nice distraction rather than compulsive
I think video games today have just gone overboard. Even single player games. Look at the Souls series. The amount of time players spend creating builds and discussing the game is insane. And they all seem smart, capable young men who are just wasting their brain power on ephemeral joys. I’m afraid of what the future will bring, specially when I look at my son, who’s just a year and three months old.
Hey Cam, I have a suggestion for you that I am pondering about for some time. What about potential learning effects from gaming , in particular serious games? While I don't think that gaming is a particularly effective way of learning new things I would say that gaming can teach us stuff or at the very least stoke interests that can make us more worldly. I certainly learned foreign languages by playing games. Without gmaing I might not be listening to you right now since you talk in English. I played many history-themed games and my first encounters with a lot of historic events were actually in games. I played games that tought basics of economics and business and I would say that I kind of learned how business people think by experiencing it through games. When I was a kid I had a geography game that tought me all the countries, their capitals, their history etc which actually resulted in the fact that in school I always instantly knew where every important place is located in the world. I sometimtes even played games during Corona and while listening to prerecorded lectures. In doing so I could listen to lectures for 3 hours without my mind wandering off. I even aced an exam that is notorious in our university for being tough. I totally agree with you that gaming takes up a lot of time but I also noticed that gaming thought me a lot of stuff and that if it is done right it certainly can help one becoming more knowledgeable. The lessons that I learned from many games have actually stuck with me as opposed to many lessons that I had in school that I have forgotten up until now. I do agree with you that going this route is dangerous though and one needs to have self control that we simply do not have when we are children. I also noticed that the way I sometimes use games today to learn something new is very different from the way I used games as a child. It really depends also what kind of games you play. I would say you don't learn anything in League or WoW. But it s possible to maybe learn a thing or two from Europa Universalis and Railroad Tycoon. Maybe you do a video on potential learning effects from gaming and their risks. Serious games can actually broaden your mind. Edit: ok I just found out that you already did video like this "do video games make you smarter". So feel free to ignore this comment. But I will still leave it here since it is my personal 2 cents and maybe the topic of serious games might still be of interest for you.
Today I deleted the account on my last addictive game that was a F2P game. The dopamine highs lasted for around the first 30 levels and then progress slowed drastically as F2P. This is when depression starts to set in the game as F2P takes ages to grind out minimal progress and rare dopamine hits.
Battle passes suck because you have to buy into them. They are on a "mandatory addiction or miss out" time limit. And they turn every game into a soulless gimmicky kiddy cosplay party
League of Legends does the "account focused game design" as well, putting in new characters that are overpowered while they're new, then nerfing them a few weeks later, once they've made their cash grab.
They also release the new champion with so-called appearance let me quote ''snow-name of champion'' I haven`t seen a champion bereft of it.Lest forget about the patch mechanics which are blatant to someone who quits the game, every patch is like adding the stats to particular champions to keep the game alive where it is not at all.
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You have a new subscriber. Don't know if I'll ever outright quit gaming as it has helped me create so many meaningful relationships and inspired me to pursue voiceover work, but I recognize that I'm prone to addiction and I want it to go back to being a nice distraction rather than compulsive
Welcome 🙌🏼
I think video games today have just gone overboard. Even single player games. Look at the Souls series. The amount of time players spend creating builds and discussing the game is insane. And they all seem smart, capable young men who are just wasting their brain power on ephemeral joys. I’m afraid of what the future will bring, specially when I look at my son, who’s just a year and three months old.
Raise him right and make sure he knows the dangers of gaming
Overboard is right, well said
Too true, I hope half of them are in school to be engineers
Hey Cam, I have a suggestion for you that I am pondering about for some time. What about potential learning effects from gaming , in particular serious games?
While I don't think that gaming is a particularly effective way of learning new things I would say that gaming can teach us stuff or at the very least stoke interests that can make us more worldly. I certainly learned foreign languages by playing games. Without gmaing I might not be listening to you right now since you talk in English. I played many history-themed games and my first encounters with a lot of historic events were actually in games. I played games that tought basics of economics and business and I would say that I kind of learned how business people think by experiencing it through games. When I was a kid I had a geography game that tought me all the countries, their capitals, their history etc which actually resulted in the fact that in school I always instantly knew where every important place is located in the world. I sometimtes even played games during Corona and while listening to prerecorded lectures. In doing so I could listen to lectures for 3 hours without my mind wandering off. I even aced an exam that is notorious in our university for being tough.
I totally agree with you that gaming takes up a lot of time but I also noticed that gaming thought me a lot of stuff and that if it is done right it certainly can help one becoming more knowledgeable. The lessons that I learned from many games have actually stuck with me as opposed to many lessons that I had in school that I have forgotten up until now. I do agree with you that going this route is dangerous though and one needs to have self control that we simply do not have when we are children. I also noticed that the way I sometimes use games today to learn something new is very different from the way I used games as a child.
It really depends also what kind of games you play. I would say you don't learn anything in League or WoW. But it s possible to maybe learn a thing or two from Europa Universalis and Railroad Tycoon.
Maybe you do a video on potential learning effects from gaming and their risks. Serious games can actually broaden your mind.
Edit: ok I just found out that you already did video like this "do video games make you smarter". So feel free to ignore this comment. But I will still leave it here since it is my personal 2 cents and maybe the topic of serious games might still be of interest for you.
Today I deleted the account on my last addictive game that was a F2P game. The dopamine highs lasted for around the first 30 levels and then progress slowed drastically as F2P. This is when depression starts to set in the game as F2P takes ages to grind out minimal progress and rare dopamine hits.
Well done!
Battle passes suck because you have to buy into them. They are on a "mandatory addiction or miss out" time limit. And they turn every game into a soulless gimmicky kiddy cosplay party
Exactly
League of Legends does the "account focused game design" as well, putting in new characters that are overpowered while they're new, then nerfing them a few weeks later, once they've made their cash grab.
100%
They also release the new champion with so-called appearance let me quote ''snow-name of champion'' I haven`t seen a champion bereft of it.Lest forget about the patch mechanics which are blatant to someone who quits the game, every patch is like adding the stats to particular champions to keep the game alive where it is not at all.
Agreed.@@mateuszkappa7388
At 0:46, I wonder what that AAA game was that cost like
Will you make an exception for starfelid and try it on pc game pass!?
Nope
Interesting topic you chose, cool video.
Thx
Back to Raid again... I need to stop returning... I just spent $70 to get this season...
come join us on the forums or discord, the extra support will help a lot: forum.gamequitters.com or discord.gg/gamequitters
yeah i decided a while ago that im never spending money skins ever again shit is not necessary and waste of money
supercell games also came with their seasonal passes since they saw that fortnite had succes with it.
Follow the money 💀
Not working out with Clash Royale.
Yeah they do. 2K caused quite the uproar when they announced a Season Pass for NBA 2K24. I canceled my pre-order.
Well done!
Good stuff mate
What program do you use to edit?
Editor gleb uses premiere
Remember guys, nothing in this world is free.
Yep
What about battle passes that are completely free?