- Questions
- What are the issues Ian Bogost raises about social games with Cow Clicker?
His issues were Inframing, Compulsion, Optionalism, and Destroyed time.
- How do social games like FarmVille enframe friends?
They make it so that friends arent really your friends they are just resourses for you to help yourself and the game developer.
- How do social games destroy time outside of the game?
In the article Bogot says “Social games so covet our time that they abuse us while we are away from them, through obligation, worry, and dread over missed opportunities.”
I agree with you how friends can sometimes just be seen as resources when it comes to these type a social games. I think not only resources, but also pawns for your own personal gain to grow further in farmville
The one thing that really stuck out to me from this article was that your friends just become “resources” for both you and the game developer. It’s quite obvious now that I think about it, but its really quite clever for the developers to convince more people to join the game.