I mean, it’s true they have a lot of games that use predatory systems designed to trick you into spending more money than you need to. As well as games that are designed purely on capitalizing on base feeling of satisfaction of big number go up. But I feel like this is akin to suing casinos for their games having odds in their favor.
How much of it is on the company, and how much on the player? Like where is the line? If a game is designed to be solely addictive with no other value or purpose, probably should not be acceptable, but how do you make that determination as a games value is different for every individual.
Almost impossible to make a blanket judgement on this, and any legal precedent set by this lawsuit will be troublesome no matter which outcome.
There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.
god forbid parents actually do any parenting. My mother took away my xbox/phone/computer when I played too much.
And for Rockstar? No parent should be letting their kids play rockstar games. But no, it’s of course not their problem.
Cracktorio should also be sued, I’ve had entire days disappear.
If anything I would have been ok with EA getting this, these two are nothing compared to the sports games that they put out. Also a lot of Rockstars games 17+, we might wanna see what these parents are doing by exposing their children to things like this that could be habit forming.
Addictive is fine.
Addictive and taking money is fucking criminal.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
