EvilRedEye wrote:I've tried gambling in the past I've just felt absolutely nothing
EvilRedEye wrote:I don't know if it's an interesting contrast or not but when I've tried gambling in the past I've just felt absolutely nothing and then stopped because it didn't do anything. I've played a few F2P phone games related to JRPG franchises I like and they always went pear-shaped when I decided to pay for a microtransaction (mainly as a way of 'tipping' the game since sometimes I'd put hours in). I'd buy a pack of coins or whatever, spend it on the gacha... and then feel absolutely nothing, consequently feel that the game was a big pit of nothing and stopped playing it. I find it kind of interesting, almost weird, that I don't respond to that kind of thing at all.
Yerp. Gambling does zilch for me, boring as hell in all it’s forms. Weed use though has caused a few problems over the years.Dark Soldier wrote:EvilRedEye wrote:I don't know if it's an interesting contrast or not but when I've tried gambling in the past I've just felt absolutely nothing and then stopped because it didn't do anything. I've played a few F2P phone games related to JRPG franchises I like and they always went pear-shaped when I decided to pay for a microtransaction (mainly as a way of 'tipping' the game since sometimes I'd put hours in). I'd buy a pack of coins or whatever, spend it on the gacha... and then feel absolutely nothing, consequently feel that the game was a big pit of nothing and stopped playing it. I find it kind of interesting, almost weird, that I don't respond to that kind of thing at all.
I don't respond to sports betting, or the lottery. Its like weed, some smoke it and fall in love, others smoke it and think wtf is that about. All bout that wiring innit.
Yossarian wrote:Possibly, but I doubt it would be happening to this extent.
Yossarian wrote:Again, I’m happy to reconsider this argument in the face of evidence that this has been causing these sorts of issues, but I still have trouble believing that people who are at risk of getting addicted to gambling will be getting addicted to loot crates over and above actual gambling which can offer them actual money.
Yossarian wrote:It's not like Escape ended up homeless after spending his money on jumbo sausages.
My point is more that you were able to stop without this adversely affecting you. Presumably you didn't spend more than you could afford, you didn't go into debt because of this, you didn't fail to pay your bills or rent or whatever. You bought a game full in the knowledge that it was a game which would require additional expenditure, you spent some more money on it, the experience wasn't working out for you and you walked away from it.Dark Soldier wrote:Its only a meagre amount doesn't really matter lads.
Yossarian wrote:My point is more that you were able to stop without this adversely affecting you. Presumably you didn't spend more than you could afford, you didn't go into debt because of this, you didn't fail to pay your bills or rent or whatever. You bought a game full in the knowledge that it was a game which would require additional expenditure, you spent some more money on it, the experience wasn't working out for you and you walked away from it. I have no intention of minimising or dismissing your experience, I do understand that you are concerned about the feelings that it invoked and that's fair enough, but this doesn't strike me as evidence of loot boxes being this huge problem that people are making them out to be. The fact that you stopped so quickly would, if anything, suggest the opposite.Dark Soldier wrote:Its only a meagre amount doesn't really matter lads.
Because the argument has been made in this thread that loot boxes = gambling and that loot boxes in games are basically introducing children to gambling.Djornson wrote:I was addicted to World of Warcraft at one point. It made my life pretty shit. It's not the worst addiction but not a happy state of mind. Why are we equating addiction to homelessness?
Yossarian wrote:Because the argument has been made in this thread that loot boxes = gambling and that loot boxes in games are basically introducing children to gambling.I was addicted to World of Warcraft at one point. It made my life pretty shit. It's not the worst addiction but not a happy state of mind. Why are we equating addiction to homelessness?
Dark Soldier wrote:Stopped because of previous experience, I dumped about £1400 of benefit money into fruit machines over a ten month period. If I hadn't experienced that at a young age, fuck knows. If I'd been in the place I was mentally six months ago, I'd be in deep right now. I'm not gonna continue this because you'll argue it to the fucking death so I'm out. Until someone shows a graph or some hardcore stats nothings gonna change your mind so what's the point. The world keeps on spinning and I'll remember not to get into such discussions in the future as it always leads to a tedious back and forth that gets absolutely fucking nowhere. Take it easy Yoss.Yossarian wrote:My point is more that you were able to stop without this adversely affecting you. Presumably you didn't spend more than you could afford, you didn't go into debt because of this, you didn't fail to pay your bills or rent or whatever. You bought a game full in the knowledge that it was a game which would require additional expenditure, you spent some more money on it, the experience wasn't working out for you and you walked away from it. I have no intention of minimising or dismissing your experience, I do understand that you are concerned about the feelings that it invoked and that's fair enough, but this doesn't strike me as evidence of loot boxes being this huge problem that people are making them out to be. The fact that you stopped so quickly would, if anything, suggest the opposite.Dark Soldier wrote:Its only a meagre amount doesn't really matter lads.
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