• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I got zero problems with idiot gamers who continue to pay for and encourage this behavior.

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      3 months ago

      victims don’t “encourage” their abusers. these are predatory practices designed to hook in as many people vulnerable to gambling addiction as possible. you have a misconception about the people that get hooked into these things. most of them are not “idiot gamers” nor oil barons, they are either children or neurodivergent people.

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      3 months ago

      It’s naive to think that someone is at fault for falling prey to the psychological tactics publishers use to push people toward micro transactions.

      If you think about it, it’s really not that different from saying people with gambling addictions deserve to be broke. Microtransactions might seem like an obvious scam to a lot of people, but a lot of people fall it and waiving it away and saying they deserve it will only make the problem worse.