pissvortex: pissvortex: I diagnose you with gamer ok hot take incoming: i dont think we should be bl

pissvortex:pissvortex:I diagnose you with gamerok hot take incoming:i dont think we should be blaming children for falling prey to games intentionally designed to be addictive.there is this predatory trend in game design where they lure kids into downloading free games and let them play the game for a couple of hours before they’re convinced (or forced, if they want to continue) to cough up their parents’ credit cards. the games in question are usually designed to get you really close to winning (or thinking that you’re close), but it’s yanked away immediately and the only way to get close again is to try over and over again, a process that usually results in you spending money. (“energy refills,” more powerful items, or even cosmetics via bandwagon effect)in other words, the video game industry is currently set up like a fucking carnival game, only this time the carnival follows you around. i dont think coining a “gaming disorder” will help anyone until we start holding the clowns in charge responsible.In other news the netherlands just forced Steam to shut down the lootboxes in CS:GO and DOTA 2 under its national gambling laws.Because that’s what this is.It’s gambling addiction.It’s not gaming addiction.It’s gambling addiction.Because this is gambling.But they don’t want to call it gambling because gambling has restrictions and you have to be over 18 to partake in it.But the law has not caught up with the digital age regarding lootboxes and micro-transactions in video games.Which are gambling.So Children are exposed to gambling. And they become addicted to gambling.and use their parents’ credit cards to gamble. Because the video games they play are rigged to hook people into their gambling mechanics.Because it’s gambling.And Gambling addiction is ALREADY a mental health issue.Hey did you know somebody spent $15 000 on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s microtransactions? Like in a SINGLE PERSON spent that much money on it?That’s not because they’re rich.It’s because they have a gambling problem and video games are enabling him because video games are not restricted under gambling laws.Despite being gambling.That children are allowed to partake in.Using real world money.(The State of Hawaii’d public address regarding their investigations into lootboxes and their harm upon children as gambling) -- source link

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