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Greedy Publishers Have Won And Normalized Paying To Play Early (kotaku.com)
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[โ€“] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the people making these things will just innovate around whatever the regulations are

This is why I asked if you think laws are useless.

And yeah, casinos and whatever will skirt the laws (if they're able), but the point of regulating a practice is to keep things from getting out of hand.

Predatory gambling games are basically just fancy theft. You create games that are unwinnable, and then you goad suckers into taking the bet. It's regulations that keep a lot of them even marginally fair.

This is a behavioral problem,

And what of the business' behavior? Should we not teach them to be better?

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It's regulations that keep a lot of them even marginally fair.

Sure, but those regulations aren't about the addictiveness or whatever, they're about transparency. If the odds of the game aren't clear or accurate, they can get into a lot of trouble.

Businesses are motivated by profit, so they'll do whatever they think will make them the most money. Getting businesses to behave requires making "bad" behaviors less profitable than "good" behaviors, and that's an endless game of whack-a-mole, especially when a lot of laws just aren't enforced consistently enough to matter, or the fines are lobbied down to relevance.

People are often motivated by pleasure, and replacing one from of pleasure (predatory games) with another is quite feasible, especially if you can point out how to find less predatory games. Making regulations to help this be transparent is a lot easier than making them go away.

So no, we shouldn't try to teach businesses anything because they don't learn. We should instead force them to be transparent and teach people to interpret that.