Except the big money isn’t coming from the whales. It’s coming from the gamer equivalent of the little old lady at the casino with her bucket of quarters.
Unfortunately, the biggest group of people buying mtx are those with mental health issues/addiction issues and kids who have no concept of fiscal responsibility. And as the saying goes, there’s a sucker born every minute.
These companies have literally hired psychologists to tell them how to best exploit the human brain for maximum wallet extraction. They’re doing the equivalent of casinos pumping extra oxygen into the room to keep you more awake and not having any windows so you don’t realize how long you’ve been in there (plus the easy booze to loosen the purse strings).
Nothing’s gonna change until we can hold these companies responsible for their actions. Ironically, I think review bombing on Steam actually helps since it can make people aware of the exploitative practices these companies are doing and make them avoid these games.
Kids have parents who pay for it and are responsible for their consumption patterns.
Adults gonna need to git gud… We are going to be lobbying US government for this until everybody in this thread is dead and then our kids will keep doing it while poor impulse adults clowns get fleeced
And there are plenty of irresponsible parents. There was a story about 5 years ago I remember of a young kid (like 6 years old) who literally emptied his parents’ bank account on mtx in an iPhone game because they didn’t know it had mtx in it.
And saying that people with mental health issues need to git gud is like saying that people in wheelchairs need to git gud and use stairs. What we need to do is replace the idiots with people who understand how bad this shit is so we can get something done about it.
Yes, blame the victims, that always works well.
Microtransactions exploit the fact that some people have addictive tendencies. You won’t “fix” that by making fun of those people.
Which one will happen first:
us fed government regulates an industry for benefit of consumer
every whale goes broke into poverty…
Asking for a friend
Except the big money isn’t coming from the whales. It’s coming from the gamer equivalent of the little old lady at the casino with her bucket of quarters.
So the answer is neither.
Well at some point peasants going to start owning their retarded consumption patterns… Clearly daddy Sam don’t give a fuck…
For christs sake folks… We live in a country that won’t provide maternity leave to women. Get a ducking clue
Unfortunately, the biggest group of people buying mtx are those with mental health issues/addiction issues and kids who have no concept of fiscal responsibility. And as the saying goes, there’s a sucker born every minute.
These companies have literally hired psychologists to tell them how to best exploit the human brain for maximum wallet extraction. They’re doing the equivalent of casinos pumping extra oxygen into the room to keep you more awake and not having any windows so you don’t realize how long you’ve been in there (plus the easy booze to loosen the purse strings).
Nothing’s gonna change until we can hold these companies responsible for their actions. Ironically, I think review bombing on Steam actually helps since it can make people aware of the exploitative practices these companies are doing and make them avoid these games.
Kids have parents who pay for it and are responsible for their consumption patterns.
Adults gonna need to git gud… We are going to be lobbying US government for this until everybody in this thread is dead and then our kids will keep doing it while poor impulse adults clowns get fleeced
And there are plenty of irresponsible parents. There was a story about 5 years ago I remember of a young kid (like 6 years old) who literally emptied his parents’ bank account on mtx in an iPhone game because they didn’t know it had mtx in it.
And saying that people with mental health issues need to git gud is like saying that people in wheelchairs need to git gud and use stairs. What we need to do is replace the idiots with people who understand how bad this shit is so we can get something done about it.
I am with you on this but it aint happening lol
The regime is colluding with mega corps… why would they do anything to hurt profits of the mega corps? How are “we” going to change that?
Circle jerking each other in lemmy comment section about coulda, woulda, shoulda?
Better than blaming addicts for being addicted.
As usual, vote local, vote often applies here, but personally, I’m in 100% agreement that the odds of it happening in our lifetime are slim to none.