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‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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These gaming companies have no moral bounds in what they'll do to manipulate people into giving them money. It really is criminal, but law is usually ten even twenty years behind tech.