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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)

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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We've talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Yeah let's just disregard the prevalence of gambling mechanics deliberately intended to induce addiction in minors to juice them for their parents' cash.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (9 children)

True but parents have a responsibility to look at the game before letting their children play it. Should the mechanics exist? No. But should the parents look into the game beforehand? Yes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

True but parents have a responsibility to look at the game before letting their children play it. Should the mechanics exist? No. But should the parents look into the game beforehand? Yes

Switch the word 'game' with the word 'drug' and the word 'play' with the word 'use', and your comment still reads the same.

We still outlaw addictive drugs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I highly doubt I will have the time to try all the new research drug-games my children acquire access to. Better stick to first party Nintendo games-drugs.

In all seriousness, PBS kids apps on mobile go hard, work on any device, and are fairly educational while being easy to use and fun enough to hold attention while being completely FREE.

We've paid for ABC mouse but the whole fuckin thing reeks of slot machine pokie stimulus while the puzzles and games crash often. The only thing that 100% works all the time is the store to exchange your "tickets"

Abc mouse is the highest rated most teacher recommended app and it's fucking awful.

My 3 year old has gotten way more out of free software than any pay software that's littered with addictive BS.

I would recommend:

GCompris

Khan academy kids

Learn to read Duolingo ABC

PBS anything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Two things.

First, teenagers are also children, and every product that you describe would not fit them, those are more for the very young.

Second, we're talking about designing the game in such a way that it provokes the brain in the same way a drug would, in essence being a drug itself.

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