A new study has found that while stress relief is still self-reported as the top reason people are playing video games,but self-expression is growing
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I must be the other half that doesn’t do any of that. Give me a strong vision and great execution of said vision and I’m almost always content, unless it’s just one of those games I can’t get into for whatever reason.

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Same here.

What “creation and self expression” means to corporations is micro transactions in the form of skins, textures, and single bits of paid content. Like buying a horse, then having to pay for the farming bundle.

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