@"Alex Javor" I'm got firm suspicions that although this line of personality research may be new to games, it isn't in other industries. It's marketing and target audience research. Is marketing itself ethical? At what point does marketing stop being a form of persuasion and become a form of manipulation to buy (with money…
This is the point I made in the post- these are foundational authors and the field needs more statistical, scientific work to support them. Nick Yee and Chris Bateman, the 3rd and 4th authors I mention do just this. I can certainly see issues with designing games solely around players. As I mentioned, it's not always the…
@kierangoodson, the Jim Sterling comment was at me. But yes, I do watch Jim. And everything he says rings true with my experience. I lost interest in games some years ago and all the things he's incessantly pointing at correlate perfectly with my suspicions of why. Of course he is a single, outspoken person who deals in…