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Old Sep 17 2010, 10:03 AM
Palantir Palantir is offline
 
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Originally Posted by HelenJS22 View Post
Does anyone ever wonder if Farm Town isn't a huge social experiment that will one day turn into someone's thesis examining the impact of such a game with all its aspects on the human players over a period of a couple of years ??? Psychologists would have a field day with it Are we not all like lambs to the slaughter ??
I don't wonder.

Given how much red tape I had to go through with Human Subjects to get something exceedingly similar but much smaller in scale done....it just isn't worth it in a for-profit enterprise like this, and this enterprise is far larger than necessary for that kind of thing.