15 European gambling regulators unite to tackle loot box threat

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DoubleU wrote:

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Aim_Deep wrote:

I'm sure there are kids like as young as 12-13 playing this game who are getting "hooked" on gambling.

The issue there would be where are the parents?

Were you ever a kid? My parents didnt even know I skipped like 4 months of school I hide it so well. Oblivious of course.

cosmetic or not, spending money for a possibility of getting something good at random is still gambling in my eyes

The babies in this thread are unreal. If you can't control yourself, maybe stop being on the internet. There are scarier things out there then this bullshit waste of time.

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Miská wrote:

The babies in this thread are unreal. If you can't control yourself, maybe stop being on the internet. There are scarier things out there then this bullshit waste of time.

Yeah waa waa we need regulation, we need this, we need that. Compose yourself and don't be a fool that spends irl money on rng boxes lmao. More bureocracy rarely helps.

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Paldamus wrote:

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Miská wrote:

The babies in this thread are unreal. If you can't control yourself, maybe stop being on the internet. There are scarier things out there then this bullshit waste of time.

Yeah waa waa we need regulation, we need this, we need that. Compose yourself and don't be a fool that spends irl money on rng boxes lmao. More bureocracy rarely helps.

Waa waa, depression, just pull yourself together and stop being sad! 4Head

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Miská wrote:

The babies in this thread are unreal. If you can't control yourself, maybe stop being on the internet. There are scarier things out there then this bullshit waste of time.

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Paldamus wrote:

Yeah waa waa we need regulation, we need this, we need that. Compose yourself and don't be a fool that spends irl money on rng boxes lmao. More bureocracy rarely helps.

Voice of Reason in sea of no-brain hate.

Hope the idiotic governments will fail. I like loot boxes and no one will have the right to ban me (adult) from purchasing one. Abuse of freedom is literally worse than everything else.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

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DoubleU wrote:

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Aim_Deep wrote:

I'm sure there are kids like as young as 12-13 playing this game who are getting "hooked" on gambling.

The issue there would be where are the parents?

Were you ever a kid? My parents didnt even know I skipped like 4 months of school I hide it so well. Oblivious of course.

Kids and gambling was what you mentioned.

Not talking about skipping school, and I have 2 teenagers of my own.
And when 1 of my offspring misses a class I get an email and a phone call from their respective schools.

Loot boxes are not gambling.
But with all of the snowflakes out there nowadays, they cry when they don't get what they want, and call this gambling BECAUSE they didn't get what they wanted.

You get EXACTLY what you pay for....a CHANCE to get what you want.
If you got NOTHING, then that would be gambling.

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Gulch wrote:

Loot boxes are not gambling.
But with all of the snowflakes out there nowadays, they cry when they don't get what they want, and call this gambling BECAUSE they didn't get what they wanted.

You get EXACTLY what you pay for....a CHANCE to get what you want.
If you got NOTHING, then that would be gambling.

gam·ble
[ˈɡambəl]

VERB
gambling (present participle)
play games of chance for money; bet.
"she was fond of gambling on cards and horses"
synonyms:
bet · wager · place a bet · lay a bet · stake money on something · [more]
bet (a sum of money) on a game of chance.
"he was gambling every penny he had on the spin of a wheel"
take risky action in the hope of a desired result.
"the British could only gamble that something would turn up"
synonyms:
take a chance · take a risk · take a leap in the dark · leave things to chance · speculate · venture · buy a pig in a poke · take a flyer · stick one's neck out · go out on a limb · chance one's arm · act in the hope of · trust in · take a chance on · bank on

Your definition of gambling is incorrect...

It'd be nice if they spent some of their money on making society a more fulfilling place to live.

Addiction; the view from rat Park"

,,,But a vague question lingered in my mind. Our rats consumed much more morphine when they were isolated. This fact definitely undermined the supposed proof that certain drugs irresistibly cause addiction. But what does cause addiction? Why is there currently a flood of addiction to drugs and many other habits and pursuits? People do not have to be put into cages to become addicted – but is there a sense in which people who become addicted actually feel “caged”?

It turns out that the answer to this last question is “yes”. Or rather, “YES!” The insight into human addiction that grows from the Rat Park research is not terribly complicated, but it took me about 15 years to grasp it clearly and another 10 years to assemble the evidence from human history and anthropology to show that it is true and another 5 years to write a book about it. (The Globalisation of Addiction: A study in poverty of the spirit, Oxford University Press, 2008). That’s how I got to be an old guy.

My graduate students and I first tried to replicate part of the Rat Park research with human beings, by getting people to role-play prisoners and guards in a prison. The idea was that the prisoners in a simulated prison would be in the same state of mind as the rats in Rat Park. We couldn’t offer them drugs of course, but we could at least ask them about how they felt and get an idea of the mindset that is conducive to consumption of drugs. Unfortunately, the experiment told us nothing…Back to the drawing board.

How could we do an experiment with people that was something like Rat Park, without treating our human subjects unethically or illegally? I gradually realized that history provides natural experiments of the sort I needed. The results are sitting around in dusty books just waiting to be analyzed...

I guess meantime while we're not all living in rat park, people might need to be protected from the most damaging consequences of gambling addiction.