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Comment by HammerJack

People want to do heroin, why is it you (or the government's) job to tell them not to? ...

Microtransaction games are based around exploiting an inherent flaw in human reasoning; predatory behaviors that exploit our weaknesses as humans should be regulated against.

edit: to back this up: The wordpress blog linked below references 19 clinical studies and explains in detail much better than I care to write up.

https://platinumparagon.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/the-psychol...

parent HammerJack 7 years ago

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