Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Hawaii Wants To Fight The "Predatory Behavior" Of Loot Boxes

Who knew Star Wars Battlefront II was an online casino for children?

These kinds of lootboxes and microtransactions are explicitly designed to prey upon and exploit human psychology in the same way casino games are so designed. This is especially true for young adults who child psychologists and other experts explain are particularly vulnerable. These exploitive mechanisms and the deceptive marketing promoting them have no place in games being marketed to minors, and perhaps no place in games at all.