Moral guardians today: “Lootboxes in videogames promote gambling to children, normalising harmful behaviour that will follow them into adulthood while simultaneously incentivising predatory business practices that prey on susceptible groups of people for financial gain.”
Me as a child getting home from school in 2001: *immediately spends the next hour putting 50k neopoints into Brucey B’s actual literal slot machine on the neopets account I shared with my sister*
Okay, but lootboxes were being paid for with real money, not virtual money? And the initial anger was never about gambling anyway. That was just a clever tactic to get Facebook moms to notice and speak up.
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