Players clearly prefer feeling responsible for failing in a game not feeling responsible is tied to a negative perception of a game. This study strongly indicates that this is not the case.
Question 2: Do players prefer games where they do not feel responsible for failing?.The study shows that players have quite elaborate theories of failure as a source of enjoyment in games.Įven so, given the negative connotations of failing, would a game be better received if players did not feel responsible for failing, but rather blamed failures on the game or on bad luck? This is the second question: In effect, failure adds content by making the player see new nuances in a game. The study of players discussed in this essay indicates that failure serves the deeper function of making players readjust their perception of a game. The simplest theory of failure states that failing serves as a contrast to winning, that failure thereby makes winning all the more enjoyable. Question 1: What is the role of failure in video games?.This is a contradiction I will try resolve in what follows.
If this seems self-evident, there is nonetheless a contradictory viewpoint, according to which games should be “neither too easy nor too hard”, implying that players also want not to win, at least part of the time. Winning makes you happy, losing makes you unhappy. It is quite simple: When you play a game, you want to win. Wolf & Bernard Perron (eds.): The Video Game Theory Reader 2. Fear of Failing? The Many Meanings of Difficulty in Video Gamesįrom Mark J.
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