So, you want to make a Facebook app that taps into the same qualities as WoW? Make it extremely fun to use at first; give users a sense of reward and increasing power/ability; then make the rewards come slower and slower, in less and less value, for the same amount of work. Just like the diminishing returns from a drug addiction… oh, and somehow monetize it.
iron_ball (commenter) on WoW
24 June 2008
14 February 2008
When I was deep in the dark, dark well of WoW addiction, I wasn’t very mobile. In fact, I wasn’t leaving the house much at all, except that one time when there was a fire, and even then I stayed to see if that enhancement shaman (it’s shaman loot, warriors) chest mail piece is gonna drop in Zul’ Gurub.
Mashable on Mobile WoW