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Tough to read. The points about Foursquare's supposed lack of business model has nothing to do with game mechanics. Game mechanics is about fostering user engagement.

A less attention-grabbing headline might have been "Game mechanics is no substitute for a revenue model".

The too-cool-for-school writing style isn't really my thing either, but hey, that's just me.

I can barely read this.

Seriously, why is this even on HN? I would have loved to see a coherent argument against putting game mechanics into everything, but this certainly is not it.

Not only could you not read it (or I), but Readability couldn't even parse it: "Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content. If you feel like it should have been able to, please let us know by submitting an issue."

lol u suk so dont like call me to invest. im smart 2.

Many/most business predictions are wrong, but at least this set of forecasts is funny.

Game Mechanics are Bullshit