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Activision, Rockstar Sued Over Addictive Video Games (www.law360.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, it's true they have a lot of games that use predatory systems designed to trick you into spending more money than you need to. As well as games that are designed purely on capitalizing on base feeling of satisfaction of big number go up. But I feel like this is akin to suing casinos for their games having odds in their favor.

How much of it is on the company, and how much on the player? Like where is the line? If a game is designed to be solely addictive with no other value or purpose, probably should not be acceptable, but how do you make that determination as a games value is different for every individual.

Almost impossible to make a blanket judgement on this, and any legal precedent set by this lawsuit will be troublesome no matter which outcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If this is anything like the other two lawsuits filed over the same thing, they probably list the same companies, including but not limited to:

  • Activision Blizzard
  • Treyarch
  • Raven Software
  • Microsoft
  • Nintendo (of America, not Japan, lol)
  • Sony
  • Apple
  • Google
  • Epic Games

and others. Like, they literally name just a bunch of big gaming and tech companies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.