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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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I don't like the blaming the victim mentality here. Sure, the games aren't super great, but they use skinner box mechanics to get players to feel like they have to pay. Skinner Boxes are literally dopamine machines, meant to program behaviors. To fully lay the blame on the players instead of acknowledging that the games themselves are mostly to blame feels pretty gross.
My post came out more victim blaming than I meant. "how to get people to stop paying for exploitive games" might be regulation or education. I don't have an answer.
On the other hand, casinos have been around forever so maybe we're stuck as long as we're human.
Needs some form of regulation. The new generations are so indoctrinated into skins and battle passes that they talk about how much they should cost instead of if they should even exist in the first place.
No education will change things, they have grown up with these cancerous monetisation methods, countries just need to ban it, like they were starting to do with lootboxes.
I did read somewhere that "default [skin]" has shown up as a playground insult.
People who buy shitty games which then encourages more shitty games are villains, not victims.