New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: In-game purchases: addiction or harmless entertainment?
Ask HN: In-game purchases: addiction or harmless entertainment?
4 by MichaelRo | 4 comments on Hacker News.
What do you think about children making frequent in-game purchases? Is it a dangerous dopamine addiction similar to gambling or just the reinvention of coin-operated Arcade machines? There's a lot of discussion of the former but not so much on the fact that paying money to play might be just a re-invention of the 80's coin-operated arcades. In this case it's not THAT bad, right? I need to make up my mind, do I harm my kid by paying real money to buy him in-game currency? Like enabling a gambling addict? Creating a future gambling addict? Or it's just playing Street Fighter on the arcade, harmless and fun? https://ift.tt/dspxD9f
4 by MichaelRo | 4 comments on Hacker News.
What do you think about children making frequent in-game purchases? Is it a dangerous dopamine addiction similar to gambling or just the reinvention of coin-operated Arcade machines? There's a lot of discussion of the former but not so much on the fact that paying money to play might be just a re-invention of the 80's coin-operated arcades. In this case it's not THAT bad, right? I need to make up my mind, do I harm my kid by paying real money to buy him in-game currency? Like enabling a gambling addict? Creating a future gambling addict? Or it's just playing Street Fighter on the arcade, harmless and fun? https://ift.tt/dspxD9f
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