This is not an eso problem. It is an MMORPG problem. You will see in my forum history, I have brought this type of stuff up. I wanted to make YT vids on MMO economies and lifecycles. However, I am too lazy to fully write a script and make the vid. I said in one of my post, "If someone finds the formula to keep an MMO alive, they may be given an nobel prize" because, at that point they would have solved an age old economic problem. NO MMO has found this solution. NONE. At 50 years, they might have something. At 100 years, they are close. At 200 years, pass out the nobel prize.
Now here is the video I was talking about.
![image]()
Change the b-word (lol) with ZoS and see if it hears familiar.
Since MMOs can't have an end....holy crap...wait a minute is this an MMO problem or an internet engagement problem?
Think about it, even facebook can be seen to be the same....
You see, facebook, they keep you engaged by chaining you to a never ending scroll of data. They use things like likes, notifications, etc to keep feeding your brain short highs. You sustain the short highs by continuing to scroll down the endless texts and photos. Your brain is trying to consume it all but it can't. Your brain get's use to grabbing these short highs and it spills out into the real world. Facebook IS a DRUG....
Why do you think tiktok is so popular? Instead of watching 30 min vids, you can consume the short vid, get the high, and move on to the next....who has tiktok here? Who has facebook here?
I quit social media way back in 2014. MMOs will incorporoate what facebook did to our brains and look to make short term goals to give us a high. Then remove it and switch it to another.
The intenet, has made our brains more impulsive. Facebook is gathering the data we happily give away to create the ultimate use case for advertising. This will then be able to predict more than what you want to buy. Facebook will sell this persona (i don't know what it's called a human representation of data) to other companies and it will be incorporated into MMOs, Vid Games, Movies, EVERYTHING!!! Sorry I forgot google is doing the same as well....
Facebook created their dating app for that, google created stadia for that reason as well. It's all for your data. Once they have that persona, they can start making the MMO lifecycle extend passed 200 yrs. They won't need your feedback, they got the feedback from your raw unfiltered comments, thoughts, lust off the internet. (google was speaking to a prominent adult site for their data. They probably made a deal to use their YT algorithms to see what parts people are interested in)
When they obtain what you lust for, what you pay for and what you think....They have your decision making as a human....
Oh and I forgot, simply getting off the internet won't stop this. They have cameras in supermarkets that track peoples movements. AI can spot your face. Walmart, BestBuy, WholeFoods, etc will share the data with each other mark my words.
Presidential polls will be a thing of the past. They will predict easily with the persona.
I can't believe I didn't see how this all ties together...
They called me a madman...
