After several years of massive popularity, the declining sales of fake guitar games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band has led Activision to discontinue the entire line. But the reason is fascinating: people enjoy playing fake guitar for awhile, but there’s nowhere for it to go. It’s thrilling to pretend to do something complicated like play music, but eventually if it isn’t progressing to real music, it’s just unsatisfying. “Fake plastic instruments can’t escape the limitations of fake plastic instruments.” I’ll leave you to figure out the implications or applications of this as an analogy.
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