Diagnostic question · Actionable Gamification
Why veterans stay
Checks whether veterans stay for creation and belonging or mainly from fear of losing status or history.
Stay
Plain label: retention motive question
Why do veterans stay: because of what they create and who they're with, or mainly because leaving would cost them?
Limits
What we don’t claim
- Octalysis is a practitioner framework built from observing games, not a validated scientific model.Actionable Gamification Ch.15, pp.399-400
Sources
Actionable Gamification · Yu-kai Chou
Ch.12, p.334 · Ch.12, p.307
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