victims don't "encourage" their abusers. these are predatory practices designed to hook in as many people vulnerable to gambling addiction as possible. you have a misconception about the people that get hooked into these things. most of them are not "idiot gamers" nor oil barons, they are either children or neurodivergent people.

It's naive to think that someone is at fault for falling prey to the psychological tactics publishers use to push people toward micro transactions.

If you think about it, it's really not that different from saying people with gambling addictions deserve to be broke. Microtransactions might seem like an obvious scam to a lot of people, but a lot of people fall it and waiving it away and saying they deserve it will only make the problem worse.

While there are gamers hooked on gambling machines, the industry will continue to produce more and more blatant gambling machines... instead of actual balanced games.

ffs people, stop treating addiction like it's something that people 'deserve' for doing bad decisions.

I appreciate them in the cases where they subsidize a free game for me, when all they're spending money on is some dressup doll equivalent