YongYea | Young Gambling Addict Who Spent $13,000 on Microtransactions Shares His Story
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This shit is fucking disgusting, And yet, this is the exact kind of thing the gaming industry secretly wants now. They want people like this guy to exist, they don't care if they're grooming young people for it or hell, maybe they even want younger impressionable people to be groomed on these systems. When you sit down and say, y'know, who are these people buying all these microtransactions anyway, I don't and I don't know anyone who does, well that's because whales like the guy mentioned in this video compensate for those of us who don't.
It's predatory. There's no two ways about it. Try to argue that it's not legally gambling all you want, it's predatory bullshit that needs to go stop and be regulated. I swear some of the scumfucks that run these companies wouldn't care if games injected heavy addictive drugs in to your system with the intent to get you addicted as long as it made them more money somehow.
People think gambling is regulated to be out of the hand of youth but it's really not. Just because they're not getting money out of what they spend doesn't mean it's suddenly not gambling. Between TF2 crates and YuGiOh I was addicted to luck based systems before I even got out of hgh school. I've consciously decided to never spend time gambling at a casino because knowing me I'd spend my future away in a second.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52950829]This shit is fucking disgusting, And yet, this is the exact kind of thing the gaming industry secretly wants now. They want people like this guy to exist, they don't care if they're grooming young people for it or hell, maybe they even want younger impressionable people to be groomed on these systems. When you sit down and say, y'know, who are these people buying all these microtransactions anyway, I don't and I don't know anyone who does, well that's because whales like the guy mentioned in this video compensate for those of us who don't.[/QUOTE]
Secretly? It's no secret. Most companies that rely on f2p models WANTS whales to help fuel their business. Misery of a few to bring "happiness" to the masses. At best, justification being "most whales are just those with superb paying jobs who splurge on their hobby." This is true to some extend, these fellas do have much greater spending power BUT who is to say they don't have an addiction problem as well?
I even have family members asking me to get back to mobile games industry because they are potentially more profitable thanks to whales. This disgusts me.
Why is 90% of this video just reading a kotaku article verbatim
quality content
[QUOTE=Eric95;52952220]Why is 90% of this video just reading a kotaku article verbatim
quality content[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with that? Do you shit on news anchors for reading from the teleprompter lmfao
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