thread: 2011-02-17 : Ben Lehman: Playtesting: Stop
On 2011-02-18, Ben Lehman wrote:
Johnzo, Jesse, Will:
I am not your conscience. You have to make your own decisions re: your own actions. I will say that I don't think that there's particular malice aforethought in any of this: people respond naturally to reward systems by optimizing them, and I don't care to cast moral aspersions on this process.
By pointing out that it's going on, I hope to give people the tools to recognize and critique the infinite playtesting loop. I'm not saying "you yourself need to do X or you're a bad person."
Will: read this.
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—Ben
