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Re:DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games by ZeroGravitas on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:03AM (#30204458)
I dont know if they added it very recently, but they have a definition right at the top:

> Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.

Re:DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games by tomcatfish on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:37AM (#30208129)
I don't think this solves all of it since it makes some weird assumptions. Does the developer really say "Hmmm, I want to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player" before adding lootboxes? I am pretty sure they don't, so this definition is not a very good one. OTOH, maybe just changing "to cause" to "that causes" would clean this up quite a bit by removing the assumption I disagree with, so maybe it's just in the way I read it.

Note: In my opinion, it's perfectly fine to say "this is tough to define but I can try to say 'yes' or 'no' to specific examples". It's also acceptable to me to admin (as you have to for some words) that a word doesn't have a real definition but is rather the product of confusion or convenience.