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There are games like Elden Ring that are purely addictive and immersive through great game design.

And then there are MMOs and mobile games that are purely addictive through dirty psychological and immoral tricks.

Just don't play the latter. Those games (like modern WoW, HS, gacha games, etc) are garbage that will be looked at in disgust in the future.

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Rocket League is both at the same time, an absolutely brilliant core game (albeit with extreme QA problems), with manipulative and unethical business practices layered on top, both to keep people playing and to monetize those people.

I use a stocktane and still buy stuff from time to time cos I know that money for the servers has to come from somewhere.

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