Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.
And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.
The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.
A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.
I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes cause they are designed to be addictive and maximize the profitability with addictive content like loot boxes and fomo tactics to push micro transactions.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Once again, choice is on your side. There are hundreds of thousands of games on mobile, many that are not service-based.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Not for a kid it isn’t.
And that’s the point you keep sweeping away.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Again, my kid has never spent a single cent on microtransactions.