Re:Gaming worth more than video and music combined
by dfxm12 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:52PM
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Why is dollar per hour a good metric of entertainment value? I don't think entertainment is a binary yes or no. Entertainment is a scale, and it's possible you get more total entertainment from something that you enjoy intensely for 30 min vs something you mildly enjoy for a hundred (or so) hours.
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Re:Gaming worth more than video and music combined
by Asquil on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:37PM
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Dollar per hour is not necessarily a good metric, but it is a metric. And we need a metric like that to quantitatively compare different mediums.
What you say about the complexity of entertainment is absolutely true, but we somehow need to model it in a relatively easy way, and that means throwing out some details.
And from in naive guess, people don't enjoy themselves significantly more watching film than playing videogames. So dollar per hour is a good enough metric for our purposes.