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by antisthenes 1473 days ago
> One is left with mostly stuff intrinsic to interactivity: well-crafted scenarios, the chaos of physics behaviors, the emotions of another human opponent or ally.

I think a good testament to this are Steam statistics. If you look at the top 15 games on SteamDB for example, the list is usually dominated by games where social interaction or PvP is key, e.g. battle royale, MOBAs, MMOs, etc.

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How much of those games topping the statistics is because they are games you can keep playing for a very long time? I can play a storydriven games only that much before I've recolored it all and move on to something else