So manipulative is in quotes but slam isn’t. Quality writing there.
EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics.
Submitted 8 months ago by 101@feddit.org to games@lemmy.world
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tartan@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Manipulative is in quotes because it is a direct quote. Slam isn’t a direct quote.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why would slam have to be in quotes?
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 8 months ago
I reguse to read ANY articles that include the word “Slam.”
suzune@ani.social 8 months ago
Children in Europe spend on average 39 euros a month on in-game purchases
Really?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Stupid parents give their kids unlimited access to mobile payments.
It’s like basic parental controls are a black art only few master
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair, basic skills for being a human seem to have become a black art that only few can master. So expecting them to be responsible parents is actually probably a bit too high of an expectation. This isn’t an excuse to be a bad parent, of course.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Of course parents not taking appropriate precautions doesn’t absolve the companies of responsibility. Unethical behavior is unethical behavior, even if there are things consumers can do to protect themselves from it. After all, the precautions wouldn’t be necessary if the companies didn’t engage in this behavior in the first place, so these precautions aren’t really solutions only mitigations.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And because of them a bunch of games on Steam and other platforms are banned in my country. I occasionaly check SteamDB and see a popular game or new release and I can’t find it in the store because apparently it is blocked in my country.
Wish there was a way for us to just see all games, because this usually involves games that have lootboxes that are entirely optional and I will never buy, but because some undisciplined kids and terrible parents the rest of us have to pay the price for it.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I can’t believe that.
Is that the average for every underage on Europe? Specific range of ages? Filtering out those who don’t spend/play at all? It’s a crazy number to throw with no extra context.
suzune@ani.social 8 months ago
I seriously thought that it’s a myth that someone buys these premium stuff on free to play games. Like someone who buys this WinRAR license.
I’d assume that on average a kid buys 6 AAA games a year. That would be more probable for ~39€ a month. In this case they’d have mixed up many different things here.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Only took them what, 20 years?
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a professional gamedev : good. Except if they aren’t tackling similar issues in online gambling (am at work so I didn’t read the article)
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Probably in relation to the Chinese govt. banning these practices too. We’ll see a lot of governments following shit soon hopefully.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Lot of people more annoyed that language is a living, changing thing than the predatory nature of in game purchases (but we all knew the latter already, so this isn’t gonna be news to us).
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SLAMMED!
Love how terrible writing has become. 😂
DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 months ago
The grand slam!
If only there were less sensational words to describe what happens.