I began to read this article - I quit at “she emailed the devs to disable her account from real world purchasing of ‘loot boxes’”
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This confuses me, because the title of this topic is of your own wording and choice “When the game you love starts hurting you” so explain how this article does not reflect your attitude, make suggestions of any sort of the serious nature of this article, or has no direct link to the title of the article? To me atleast it seems the exact opposite.
No game can hurt you. Heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, meth, speed, alcohol, casinos, loot boxes, VR, games text based or otherwise cannot hurt you unless you choose to be hurt. Only your own personal choices can hurt you (key here is YOUR OWN CHOICE.) You are no more forced to purchase plex/loot box/ship/skill/item/cocaine/module/heroin/citadel etc etc etc than you are forced to not purchase the same named above items or are forced to put the needle to your arm.
On it’s face this article is misguided and nothing but an opinion, and your title for this topic is misguided and not in line with your above quote.
Loot boxes don’t hook gamers - poor life choices cause this problem. If you wish to “regulate everything” then by all means you should advocate for a 1984 style of world where freedom and personal choice does not exist and one must do what one is told to do, OR ELSE!
Personal accountability is what this is about. That’s more than one conversation which should not be had on the forums of a game.
Cheers. My 2 cents, like em or leave em - I don’t much care 