Guilting

Making players perform actions due to a sense of bad conscience.

Players do action in games due to some form of motivation. When this motivation is based on feeling bad, either from having done something or not having done something, it is called Guilting.

Examples

World of Warcraft

FarmVille

Ravenwood Fair

Using the pattern

Guilting consists of two parts. The first part is that players have other players they feel a connection with. This can be formalized Social Organizations such as Guilds, but any group that they feel Loyalty to can suffice. The second part of Guilting is to make players feel that they should perform some form of action to other players. This is quite often set up by Delayed Reciprocity, for example through Altruistic Actions such as Free Gift Inventories, but any type of Social Dilemmas can work as well.

Guilting can also occur in games with Turn Taking, where players try to make players suffering from Analysis Paralysis

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Can Be Instantiated By

Altruistic Actions, Delayed Reciprocity, Free Gift Inventories, Guilds, Loyalty, Social Dilemmas, Social Organizations

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History

New pattern created in this wiki.

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