Gambling with make believe money and lots of economy and trading “experts” telling you where to “invest” in
arcine@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Can someone explain to me how cryptocurrencies are even in this fight in the first place ? How are they grabbing and holding people’s attention ? Are they staring at the graphs all day !?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, trading is addictive
ATPA9@feddit.org 2 days ago
*gambling
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kind of… it can be far more structured and methodical than typical gambling
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People follow “rules/systems” and notice “patterns” when pulling slots too.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Because the article is badly written.
It’s confusing money spend on X must equal time spent on X.
The total amount of money spend on video games has gone done but more money is now being spent on things like crypto currency. This is being claimed that it means that people are spending more time on crypto since they are spending more money there. It ignores other issues such as who is spending on what (its countries as a whole, not amlunt on average per user), gaming is more expensive, more games are being made as a live service and are flopping (Highguard anyone?), retro gaming is getting bigger (doesn’t cost a fortune), etc…
Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Totally. Been a gamer for 30+ years, and none of the new stuff holds my interest. Also, my hardware being less than a full time mortgage, means most new games run poorly. So, old stuff it is.