Most kids aren’t discerning about those kinds of things.
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Dozzi92@lemmy.world 21 hours agoWell, what about this: Early exposure to the shithead practices of modern gaming can enable children to more easily identify what’s good and what’s just trying to take money from them.
I dunno.
dom@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That’s why I slam that shit home all the time. Robux are a scam. YouTubers are just selling to you. If it has ads it’s not worth watching. Just repeat that every day to the kids and they’re good to go.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The problem is that kids dont make or have money. Its like burning their hand the first time, they need to attempt to pay for their own lives fully at least once to really understand it. I think its fair to restrict these types of things to mature rated games as a general rule.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
My kids didn’t see an ad connected to videos until the youngest was about 7 (outside of a movie theater, at least). When they first saw them, they were flabbergasted about what they were or why people would just sit there watching them, and absolutely refuse to put up with them. I’d say they are better off seeing how things could be, so when they see how things are now they recognize how utter shit it is.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
You could argue the other way around - growing up with decent and non-predatory practices makes you less tolerant of when companies try to extort you because you already know what “good” looks like.
I’m sure the corpos would love nothing more than kids getting exposed to predatory practices from a young age so they grow up feeling those things are acceptable and normal.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 18 hours ago
Drag thinks we should expose kids to a safe environment most of the time, and to little bits of predatory design in contexts that make them easy to identify. Like a vaccine.
“Dad, how do I put armour on my horse?” “You need to grow up and get a job and a credit card for that.” “That sucks, I hate Oblivion! I want to go back to Morrowind!” “It’s okay buddy, I pirated the Oblivion remaster. Let’s play that instead.”