Oh, in that case yes I would argue that parents shouldn't be letting young kids play those either. I had my own phase where I spent way to much cash on Magic and there is definitely an addictive quality to pack opening.
Problem with videos games (particularly mobile games) are the degree to which they've been tailored to target people with a propensity to addictive behaviors. Games that dynamically scale up failure rates to encourage purchases, mining user data to estimate your income level and how much you're likely to spend (or allow to be spent), hiring psychologists to help guide decisions to encourage addiction and skinning this all around a game tailored to 7 year old is a bit much imo.
I'm all for letting adults make these decisions on their own. But we don't let companies that sell alcohol, nicotine products or pot advertise to and target kids. I'm ok with our gambling laws being applied to games as well, seeing as many of these mechanics are already operating in legal grey areas.
They already got rid of the gambling games in Pokemon.
Not the Pokemon trading card game - that's a loot box and ergo, gambling.
Oh, in that case yes I would argue that parents shouldn't be letting young kids play those either. I had my own phase where I spent way to much cash on Magic and there is definitely an addictive quality to pack opening.
Problem with videos games (particularly mobile games) are the degree to which they've been tailored to target people with a propensity to addictive behaviors. Games that dynamically scale up failure rates to encourage purchases, mining user data to estimate your income level and how much you're likely to spend (or allow to be spent), hiring psychologists to help guide decisions to encourage addiction and skinning this all around a game tailored to 7 year old is a bit much imo.
I'm all for letting adults make these decisions on their own. But we don't let companies that sell alcohol, nicotine products or pot advertise to and target kids. I'm ok with our gambling laws being applied to games as well, seeing as many of these mechanics are already operating in legal grey areas.