[pmoriarty]

I've been disturbed in recent years by how much some games use techniques reminiscent of gambling to get people addicted to their games.

Of course there's a fine line (or maybe no line) between addictive and just plain fun or exciting... so I'm not sure what the solution is.

Making games less fun or exciting is not desirable, but neither is having people so addicted to games that their real-world life suffers.