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. First 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.

Social Dilemmas Free Gift Inventories Altruistic Actions Delayed Reciprocity

Turn Taking

Relations

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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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