Yeah I think some people just can’t help spending money on little dopamine hits. I don’t think there’s anything you can really do about it. Even if you ban blind boxes/loot boxes entirely they’ll just find something else, or pick some random product like water bottles or beanie babies and decide they’re ‘rare’ or whatever that was about.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand this. With $1300 can’t they just buy the thing they are hoping to get? Is a big part of this paying for the thrill of winning, but never experiencing that?
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As they say in the article, it’s gambling. Gambling is inherently irrational.
Same way people won’t pay 5$ to take a 50% chance to earn 6$, but some will consider a 0.00005% chance to earn 6,000,000$. If the extreme’s are worth enough, some people just focus on that instead of considering the odds.