[michalu]

That's an exciting, new discovery that I hope won't find its application in places like whatever department does behavioural design at Facebook, game developers, marketers to make products more addictive ... kind of like when they found out that rats go crazy with irregular rewards :)

[pawelmurias]

Addictive free to plays games being actually fun seems like an improvement in a way.

[nessunodoro]

A game with noverbal, non-quantifiable, socially interactive rewards rather than loot boxes and vacuous artificial ranks would be a step in the right direction!

With all the hype about the release of classic WoW, I remembered my most satisfying gaming experience playing the original WoW circa 2005, when I communicated peacefully with a member of the opposite faction (non-PvP server, so there was no threat of sudden death). We couldn't chat, but we could gesture, dance, and importantly, throw snowballs to knock each other down (we both had them in our inventory, which was awesome to discover). We played like that for what seemed like an hour, although it was probably closer to 20 minutes. Just Barrens things.

I'd like to see more games where you can explore a world and interact with other players nonverbally, playfully, for the sheer delight of it.

[bayesian_horse]

Startup idea: Remotely activated tickling devices.

[vidarh]

They exist, in the form of sex toys.