Thursday, June 28, 2018

Deliberate on-line game tricks risk gambling-like addition

Addiction experts are pointing to in-game purchasing schemes as a trigger for potentially ruinous addiction. The University of Adelaide team particularly points at ‘loot boxes’ – mechanisms with which players can repeatedly buy a random selection of virtual items – something that the Belgian Gambling Commission declared an illegal form of gambling in April. “Players ...

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