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16444: Re: [MUD-Dev] New Bartle article

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From: Vincent Archer <archer@nevrax.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:47:56 +0100
References: [1] [2] [3] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
According to msew:
> Check out this quote :-)
...
> explained many of Thaler's anomalies. Moreover, most people are
> "loss averse," meaning they experience more pain from losses than
> pleasure from gains. This explains why investors hate to sell
> losers. For

This also explains a lot why people have a so adverse reaction to
Everquest's loss of XP, whereas (in the UOWO mailing list), they found
the concept of an experience debt a lot better (and probably even if
the amount of XP you have blown out was of the same order).

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Vincent Archer                                         Email: archer@nevrax.com

Nevrax France.                              Off on the yellow brick road we go!
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