{"id":903,"date":"2005-09-11T19:16:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-11T22:13:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T05:13:04","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/903\/","title":{"rendered":"Players are smarter than designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note. I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoryoffun.com\/theoryoffun.pdf\">skimming a pdf<\/a> linked on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rngamers.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=110\">dead forum<\/a>. Just skimming because I own the book already.<\/p>\n<p>But what caught my attention is a few pages that really fit to describe <a href=\"\/drupalx\/node\/888\">WoW&#8217;s PvP problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Page 26<\/b>: Players seeking to advance in a game will always try to optimize what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Page 27<\/b>: If they are clever and see an optimal path, they&#8217;ll do that instead of the &#8220;intended gameplay&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Page 28<\/b>: They will try to make the game as predictable as possible. Which then means it becomes boring, and not fun.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Then, beside WoW, go skim the pdf like I did. It&#8217;s worth the time. (even if you own the book already, I&#8217;d say)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note. I was skimming a pdf linked on a dead forum. Just skimming because I own the book already. But what caught my attention is a few pages that really fit to describe WoW&#8217;s PvP problems: Page 26: Players seeking to advance in a game will always try to optimize what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}