This post is about the State of Punishment Gaming in early 2014. Punishment Gaming is most painfuly obvious in the mobile category these days but it has a long rich history.
Bear with me I'm going to travel back in time here for an example from 1999 and then tie it to mobile practices in 2014 ..
Punishment Gaming is something I first became aware of in 1999 playing the MMO EverQuest.
I certainly lay no claim to have coined the term "Punishment Gaming" myself but certainly it was a unique thought to me at that time; after playing through certain scenarios in EverQuest over a year it occurred to me I was being punished as part of playing the game.
