If your kid is able to buy something without you, you need to get that shit on lock down, or teach them how to spot deceptive practices.

Your target audience who doesn't make purchasing decisions?

to many parents though just buy what their kids want to shut them up because it's easier

That's the parents' fault

^

you should be teaching them how to make choices for themselves by the time they are starting to get financial freedoms, so around 15-16 they should be able to make some of those choices on their own.

I feel the same toward lootboxes as well

Like are you suggesting kids don't want sugary shit regardless?

I was always given the line "we dont have enough money"

who's money goes to lootboxes?

Or "dinner or a toy"

I learned quickly

if the person with the money does not care about their money being used on lootboxes, who is the victim exactly?

using psychcologists to boost sales though is scummy no matter what really

The child

I would say

how is the child a victim?

its not their money, they get what they want eventually.

and you are talking about all marketing PERIOD.

you know the colors used at restaurants and fast food is ones that science shows increases hunger response?

Introducing them to gambling at a youn g age

Yeah

teach your kid how to spot and handle gambling

Same with heat

this is a PERFECT time for that

And I agree

the child is still not a victim tho.

hard alcohol sales show that the top 10% make 90% of all purchases, so they tend to market toward those with impulse control issues and addictive personalities

it could be virtual money they gamble

infact to them it is virtual money

and what do you propose to do about that?

stop making games free to play?

add in directed marketing to that based on what the tech companies know of every person and how to exploit them and I'd say that almost all of marketing is going down a very dark path

oh it is.... but we gave that shit up willingly

Honestly? It's tough because ultimately do I have the right to dictate how someone runs their company when I played no part in creating it

thats why i stopped using facebook years ago.

even distrusted it when i was on it

southpark even had a great episode on it called 'fremium isn't free' iirc

turned out it was all the canadian devil

If i tell someone my name, and then they tell someone else my name, is it really my fault that 3rd person now knows my name? particularly if i never said they couldn't tell someone else?

but here's the thing, its a choice to buy microtransactions in a game