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I think the theory of game play is fascinating, and some of those games were very clever in their design. But I feel as though using only the Sunk Cost Fallacy, as the author calls it, to motivate a player to finish your game isn't enough. I play games for fun, and I think that games that keep you doing repetitive behavior just because you've already so much of it start to feel more like a job than a game.



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