Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games

• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. I think part of it is just that I’ve grown out of them. But part of it is enshittification.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your tastes may change and you might have changed as a person as you aged but there’s nothing to “grow out of”. Games aren’t inherently childish. Certain ones can be, but games as a whole aren’t

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• doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Luckily for you, there’s more games without any loot boxes or micro transactions than you can play in your lifetime.

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