China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere

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The “freemium” business model encourages some gamers to spend thousands of dollars a year

 

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Because gambling is an addiction, and we've studied how to weaponise it on devices everyone has in their pockets at all times?

Why is the stock photo on this 2 eleven year old boys? Like they play CandyCrush. As if the primary demographic isn’t middle aged housewives who’ve got money to drop on rosé and extra lives. gaming soccermoms brunchbunch

darylilbury Any anti social addiction should be of concern to society

My faculty told me, he made some lacs by selling t-shirt to with a yoga video of some celebrity.

Oh they be getting those coins!! I got caught too many times🤦🏾‍♀️

You act like this is a new concept and why shouldn't they offer in game purchasing that isn't gambling? You pay a $1 you get X. That's how most of them work. What about Clash of Clans or other apps? This is just nonsense

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