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"I am currently $15,800 in debt. My wife no longer trusts me. My kids, who ask me why I am playing Final Fantasy all the time, will never understand how I selfishly spent money I should have been using for their activities. Their birthdays, their festivals, their clothes, their school events, their weekends, their movies.
I have never spent more than $1000 on my wife at one time. I spent $16,000 on digital garbage in about a year. If she decides that she will not divorce me, I owe her more that I could ever repay. I am not playing anymore. I will not get Cloud. I will leave 500K lapis in an account that will stay idle. The 'friends' I have will drop me as my days since last played increases. I will not get to beat Marlboro. I will not see how Chapter 2 plays out. I will not have any 7* units. FFBE is over.
I became a gambling addict over a game where there is no return, no reward, for spending my money."
Yeah... I don't think it needs to be said, but I'll say it again anyway: the modern video game industry is utter garbage. While (I would assume, or at least hope) most people play games more responsibly than this guy, it's still the case that games like this actively encourage this sort of behavior. Game developers explicitly design their games to be as addictive as possible, knowing that some people just cannot help themselves. They bank on it. It is beyond the pale.
This, at least in part, is why I have forever ranted and railed against all the disgusting DLC and microtransaction horseshit like this that is in far too many games these days. Fuck the modern video game industry and, fair or not, I will also say fuck the players like this guy here who make it a worthwhile, sustainable endeavor for the video game industry to operate like this in the first place.
I have never spent more than $1000 on my wife at one time. I spent $16,000 on digital garbage in about a year. If she decides that she will not divorce me, I owe her more that I could ever repay. I am not playing anymore. I will not get Cloud. I will leave 500K lapis in an account that will stay idle. The 'friends' I have will drop me as my days since last played increases. I will not get to beat Marlboro. I will not see how Chapter 2 plays out. I will not have any 7* units. FFBE is over.
I became a gambling addict over a game where there is no return, no reward, for spending my money."
Yeah... I don't think it needs to be said, but I'll say it again anyway: the modern video game industry is utter garbage. While (I would assume, or at least hope) most people play games more responsibly than this guy, it's still the case that games like this actively encourage this sort of behavior. Game developers explicitly design their games to be as addictive as possible, knowing that some people just cannot help themselves. They bank on it. It is beyond the pale.
This, at least in part, is why I have forever ranted and railed against all the disgusting DLC and microtransaction horseshit like this that is in far too many games these days. Fuck the modern video game industry and, fair or not, I will also say fuck the players like this guy here who make it a worthwhile, sustainable endeavor for the video game industry to operate like this in the first place.
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Date: 2017-12-18 12:58 pm (UTC)From:I can only assume the reason the regulating body for games are so adamant against adding a "gambling" warning on games that seriously need it is due to lobbying pressure at this point.
If they're so adamant against "gambling" then they seriously need to add "consumable microtransactions" "excessive DLC" and "addictive (in a bad way)" as warning labels.
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Date: 2017-12-18 03:34 pm (UTC)From:And it's not even gambling, really. At least with actual, proper gambling, there is still the chance that you might win money back, which is not the case with these F2P money sinkholes. I liken it more to just a straight up scam on the part of the game devs at this point. It's the same reason why telephone scams or the Nigerian email scams are worth it to the scammers. Let's say they contact a thousand people, even if nine-hundred and ninety-nine of those people just ignore them completely, if they manage to get even one (1) person to bite and then fraud them out of their money, it is worthwhile to the scammers to keep trying it. The only difference between this and the F2P microtransaction scams is that players go into that fucking shit knowing that it's pretty much a scam and that they're throwing money down the toilet if they spend anything on it, because they're never going to get anything back out of it, aside from the "satisfaction" of feeding their addiction, and yet they still do it anyway.