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Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game (www.bloomberg.com)
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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Those systems are literally designed to be psychologically addictive and prey on those weakest to such tactics. It's not stupidity; it's literal brain washing via Pavlovian response.

[โ€“] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 13 points 14 hours ago

Basic human psychology has been weaponized against us, and they've been getting better at it faster than we're getting better at resisting it, for decades.