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[Para Handy]

Seems it isn't just Elite that grinds:

Video games have turned my kids into wage slaves – but without the wages | Zoe Williams

Gaming is task-driven, repetitive and often frustrating – just like having a job. Childhood isn’t supposed to be so serious, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

 

[Demascus]

Well certainly is an article written by someone failing to parent. Worries about cause and effect these games are having on their kids, precedes to do nothing about it. Ends with talking about distracting themselves from responsibility with five nights at freddies.... Jesus

There needs to be some kind of test before people are allowed to breed.

 

[Robin of Spiritwood]

During the UO beta back in the mists of time, when the first fleshed out MMORPG was bugged and broken, people were busy grinding for armour raw material by literally click-mining with a pickaxe vs a rock face, carrying ore to a smelter, and then pounding it out into ingots. Over and over for weeks.

If you had suggested they literally do that for no pay, they would have revolted. The same people who paid for the CD of that beta. So they could become "Master level Blacksmiths".

 

[Arry]

During the UO beta back in the mists of time, when the first fleshed out MMORPG was bugged and broken, people were busy grinding for armour raw material by literally click-mining with a pickaxe vs a rock face, carrying ore to a smelter, and then pounding it out into ingots. Over and over for weeks.

If you had suggested they literally do that for no pay, they would have revolted. The same people who paid for the CD of that beta. So they could become "Master level Blacksmiths".

Sounds like RuneScape.