Cyber psychologist calls on MMORPG developers to shorten long quests

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A cyber psychologist has called on the developers of massively multiplayer online role-playing games to help prevent addiction by tweaking their design.
Dr Zaheer Hussain, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Derby, called on MMORPG designers to look into the structure of their games, and suggested shortening long quests.
The recommendation was made in "Social responsibility in online videogaming: What should the videogame industry do?", a new study authored by Dr Hussain, Dr Shumaila Yousafzai from the Cardiff Business School and Professor Mark Griffiths, of Nottingham Trent University and director of the International Gaming Research Unit.
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