The Zagarnic Effect and the Relationship Between Gaming and Relatedness

Self-determination theory offers a framework for understanding why people are motivated to keep playing games we do it to satisfy needs for competence autonomy and relatedness. Gaming achievements and trophies can be used as signals of our status and accomplishments to other players this is true even if they're outlandish and unreasonable unreasonably difficult to acquire in fact maybe that's when it's most true.