What is the payoff? What exactly is our goal?

Share your reasons for playing, maybe you can tell someone something that will get more people interested, maybe you can remind someone else of why they started, and slow down the rate of people quitting vs staying.

I am sure that our individual lists of reasons for playing these games, when viewed collectively, is one big tangled mess, that overlaps and twists into something that must have at least one thing in common.  Could it be that boredom had something to do with it? Could it be the need for the company of other people, even if this company is filled with battles and killing?

I have to apologize, I am one of those that is so analytical, I must find a reason for everything, there always is one, right? Well, if there is, I cannot find it! When I started playing, that very first time, I was a bit tired of what I had been doing, and thought maybe this would be a fun thing for a few minutes, just a brief fling with something that I have always thought to be a waste of time, games. So, admittedly, I am not a gamer, what in the world happened? How did I get hooked? Why do I play? Why do you play? What is it about this game?

If this were a game like checkers, or even poker, the goal is obvious, to win, but, this game has no single winner! Is that it, we can all win a little bit here and there and that keeps us going? If you had to tell someone, why you play the 140Mafia game, or any of these Twitter games, what would you tell them? There is no payoff other than getting on a list, an maybe making a friend or two, which are not bad things, but the internet is full of other ways to do the same thing, so, why this? Well, at first, I was crazy, trying to grow wealth, and power as fast as I could, but, now I think that for me, what this game has to offer is the ability to play, even when I am not playing! I can go about my daily routine, then stop off and check the game, buy some weapons or property, and fight a bit, then, go back to what I was doing before, and start all over again. Could this be it?

By the way, does anyone know why the “scoreboard” has the top of everything listed, except levels? What is the highest level attained so far?

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