The Psychology of Games

[@victor538]

10:48 "Skyrwath and then WINDRUNNER" FeelsBadMan

[@kibateo]

Chen isn't a real hero confirmed

[@veenasharma458]

kibateo uh what??

[@nehuenbec]

I'm studying organizational psychology and holy fuck: this material is gold; it matches what I study and my interests in the future, work in the video games industry. Cheers to this psychologist.

[@gerardslevin9053]

How do I employ you for a project lmfao I also agree holy fuck this is gold but my implementation skills are dwarfed by Valve

[@juliabanasova5641]

The best lesson in pedagogy I have had in a long time.

[@dc.gamedesigner33]

This is still so relevant because I'm currently going to college for Game Design and one of my classes is Psychology of Play and I wanted to understand what I was going to be learning ahead of time so I could be prepared. So thank you for posting some this video that will remain relevant with the gaming community.

[@anime_hater]

guys, throw off the name of the music that plays in the beginning of the movie. Shazam can not find.

[@Spartan76092]

@37:27 Very interesting. By adding 2 survey questions, they reduced the player reports in DotA 2 by 12.5% per day.

[@PoorCoyote]

Very interesting with great examples! Hope to see more talks

[@veenasharma458]

pavelhere same

[@CR055FIRE]

Regarding the example of attention around 7:00: I disagree with his assessment. The reason why the player didn't notice the other player in plain sight was because: A: the spectator on the microphone was overtly stressful and distracting (and probably behaves the same way in every game) which hampered his ability to concentrate normally and B: the players cognition was attempting to rely on the spectators auditory assistance in the game which automatically reduced his reliance on his own visual perceptivity. This is actually an example of a logical fallacy: Where players believe a second player in spectator mode can give them an edge in gameplay, but it results in worse gameplay performance as the player is now distracted from the game.

[@DEAD4LIVE]

yea he did not address the variables of livestreaming or other gamer stuff.

[@sadpee7710]

that's a lot of fancy words just to say something to the effect of "i would have won had my teammates not been distracting me!" which is itself an example of hindsight bias on your part. no. the enemy was very visible on screen. as ambinder notes this is a good csgo player who was highly focused. it simply did not register for a myriad of reasons. our point of focus and our brain's automation. streamlining thinking by defocusing thing you are not looking for. you are right in identifying that something is going on with the spectator mode, but it would be that spectators had it easier to see the enemy because they lacked the attentional set of an active player. the restricted perception of aspects in the enviroment that comes with searching for something specific, like finding a tall blond person in a crowd, as in ambinder's prior example. sure a stressor could make this bias more pronounced but it would still be a result of the attention set.

[@CR055FIRE]

@@sadpee7710 wtf are you talking about

[@DEAD4LIVE]

@@sadpee7710 is it possible that the gamer could have been distracted?

[@jis70147]

do you have any friends

[@brigandpatrolworllvideos9]

Useful stuff. Thanks

[@joshuaklind]

Painfully obvious assessments.

[@bulalaish]

Valve please keep them good videos coming

[@veenasharma458]

Yeah agreed!

[@CapableScripter]

Thank you for the informations! This is useful for me

[@TheRamblingShow]

Informative for sure!

[@NinjaVietify]

What about when games outright ban players who are toxic? Does that do anything to curb player toxicity or just make it worse or stay the same?

[@juntistik]

I think that may have to do with the cost of the license for the game. If the game if free to play, the toxic player will just create a new account. If the game is $20 the player may or may not buy a second or third copy, and if the game is $60, players are even more reluctant to re-buy. That's my theory at least.

[@darovi]

Dota 2 is free and when they introduced the reporting system and low priority games the toxicity was drastically reduced.

[@knifeyonline]

it also has a lot to do with how long that player was part of the community and infecting it! ^as well as the good points you guys made.

[@veenasharma458]

David Rodríguez I completely agree

[@DesignEntity]

Really digging this.

[@MaitredeDieu]

give this guy a bottle of water

[@Fjuron]

Interesting concepts, but imho it could have benefited from being presented in a more confident and structured way, maybe with some additional examples for how to utilize those psychological ideas.

[@OfficialCANVAS]

He isn't going to give out his added value to steam to the broad audience.

[@narancs5]

20:20 "These are accurate wait times." That is not true in my experience. On rough average the estimation is double the actual wait time. Anyways, its fast....oh, I feel positive about it, it worked ;)

[@knifeyonline]

dunning kruger effect actually means, the less skill you have, the more you over estimate your ability or competency level.

[@Atarexy]

im no developer, but I found this very interesting.

[@doogie14]

Tusk.....

[@DaMu24]

I was really scared he was going to discuss loot boxes at some point...

[@OfficialCANVAS]

He knows he needs to steer clear of that if he truly masters the manipulation of how people perceive him the most positive

[@knifeyonline]

32:00 me thinks he's not talking about the player so much, as much as the devs justifying something crappy in their game instead of changing it. ^_^

[@jpHasABadHandle]

It's Juha, not Yuha. He was Finnish.

[@MANS4ON-Ce137]

great

[@alberto9911]

respect to his work but for me as non english speaker (I watch all cartoons in english no problems) it was difficult to follow... is it possible to sum up his presentation?

[@Fivousix]

What you do as a game designer can have positive or negative influence over your players. You can use these principles to make them happier or you can ignore all this knowledge and try your luck.

[@marg0tten]

"how to use report tools ingame to harass someone as group" its really great specially in current times with russia and ukraine. you even get a thank you messages for harassing.

[@KevinLGlory]

The points are very interesting, but I felt bored watching it. Perhaps it might be how monotone the presenter was talking? I'm not sure, just providing some feedback here.

[@DefinitelyBolt]

VOLVO FIX THE REPORT SYSTEM

[@richard90991]

I couldn't see the T either

[@quocle7304]

Skywrath? I LUL

[@TomNook.]

Everyone save this before they take it down

[@dragoncrystal24]

riki crowd

[@mirrorbroken1649]

Are you making games, or are you making drugs?

[@MrBerrio]

Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that he constantly avoids eye contact with the audience? Don't get me wrong, it is a great talk, but I don't feel fully engaged when his body language is awkward.

[@Brandon75689]

He must be so experimental that his psychological practices only work on non-humans. I can do a better job reducing toxicity in Dota. It sure isn't the report system.

[@chacalXXX]

Oh really? Enlighten us?

[@Brandon75689]

@@chacalXXX another guy on game design related to this video said to "not fight human nature". This guy goes against this and dotas report system has as well . The complexity of the game and fearures to help it be intuitive is what stops toxicity. Id bet money the ranked role system has reduced more toxicity than the report system has.

[@VaingloriousGabagool]

Stop saying "um", stop touching your face, stop smacking your lips, and stop looking at your feet. Jesus christ

[@Nokiya]

I bet you would shit your pants if you had to represent something in front of many people

[@Estbarul]

REPORTED

[@PoorCoyote]

Groatnasty it's a stressful situation. don't be a dick

[@DEAD4LIVE]

Crowbcat.