Team Fortress 2 is ruining my productivity.
Is there anything to gain from this endless rat race? Slaughter and conquer for 2 minutes, repeat. This kind of games are most primitive and have the shortest lasting gains. Once you stop, it's gone.
Hehe, i played it a lot too and it is a lot of fun and actually has things to learn from. It's simple and refined. Though it blows my mind how some peoples investment in hours easily reach thousands. For most it's really just the rush of the moment, but with long term achievements people get arbitrary reasons to play. The drug is there, it's legal and you're convinced it's okay to reach for that Superheadshot-mastah BADGE that no-one else really cares about.
Games are slowly but steadily heading for the low-investment - fast gain territory, which is a bummer as a whole i think, even if there is plenty of low level gamedesign that's evolving in a good direction.