Message from @Aperture Tech
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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
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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
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
That's how they get around info collection