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From: "Marc Fielding" <fielding@computer.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:17:02 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
[ Caliban Tiresias Darklock ]
> The major source of envy is not the perception that someone else
> has something you don't have, but that someone else has something
> you can't get.
Technically, the latter is a subset of the former. In my experience,
encountering someone with something I desire but can't get for
myself generates more _frustration_ than envy. Player envy is
motivating. Player frustration is destructive.
> When character advancement is something players feel they can't
> get, I think the game has a pretty big problem.
Agreed.
-Marc
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