Not as thoroughly as you can from gambling casinos. The government here for instance is working so you can self bar from all casinos not just the one. You also don't have age restrictions to even access the things in loot boxes' case. Fifa for instance gets aimed at young kids and has lootboxes in it. Additionally the government intervenes (page 28) to prevent gambling addicts from fucking themselves up. You don't see anything similar happening with loot boxes.
Some people are just anti-regulation in general; doesn't matter what the regulation is, they're against it. To be fair, such a mindset is understandable, considering how regulations have often been misapplied and misused to the detriment of all.
Of course it is. Its using the power of government to come in and handle something saying people are too impotent to handle their own issues and need bureaucrats invited in to be able to get them to stop spending their own money in ways that they apparently can't help themselves. We need to regulate everything because the lowest common denominators of society are too bad at managing themselves and their own lives so we have to make it so no one is allowed to do something. People with addictive personalities and no self control will, inevitably, ruin their lives and spend all their money on something. I am deeply opposed to regulating things to try and protect them because it is an inevitability and their responsibility to deal with, not for society to be molded around them to protect them. It's the same logic that gets us gun control, hate speech restrictions, knife control, licenses for everything, all that bullshit and my principles don't change just because they want to make something I personally detest illegal. The bar to legally ban something or severely regulate it remains extraordinarily high because I believe in the ability of people to be responsible and that it is on them to bear the consequences of their own decisions and actions.
Except pokemon cards. Those toys from satan have been poisoning our youth for far too long. Seriously though, I still haven't gotten a satisfying answer as to why lootboxes are awful but like Magic isn't.
Its a joke fam. The whole point is to poison the well in favor of my own position to the point of being ridiculous.
Here's the thing; Magic is awful. It's just so niche that nobody cares. Also, I'd argue lootboxes are even worse, because at least with TCGs, you're exchanging money for things of value that actually exist. Because with lootboxes? You're giving them money for the chance to gain access to a particular line of code in a game that won't exist ten years down the line. Meanwhile, I could go on eBay right now, and get a decent price for my Alpha Shivan Dragon.
Except that, again, by virtue of being real and valuable that makes it more like gambling not less. Do you choose to support regulation based on principles or feelings? Personally I go with principles, not just because I don't like that thing. Your justification for regulation has continually been that you don't like lootboxes and that too many games are using them, which to me seems largely feeling based.
Is gambling the be all end all of vices for you? I already stated that I'm not going to let you drag me into an argument over semantics; because whether or not lootboxes are gambling is irrelevant. All that matter is that corporations are taking advantage of psychological weaknesses in their customers, in order to force them to spend more and more money; money that they often don't actually have to spend.
There is no gun being placed to anyones head, therefore there is no force. Its all choices. People are choosing to indulge in these vices, they don't like the outcomes of these choices, and so they blame everything but themselves and invite the government further into their own lives to let them know what they can and cant do because big brother knows best.
Personal responsibility is hard blaming others is easy.
oh I dunno, maybe cus they get lost a bunch and phones have this neat called "GPS" that makes it easier to find them? Or maybe cus sometimes they stop talking and you'd damn well better have a way for them to readily get a hold of you that DOESN'T involve talking. Or maybe because they have a social life? Or a job? And in either case it makes them getting in touch with either of those things, or, you while involved in either of those things, easier.
...Wow, apparently you are more helicopter than I thought.
Of course they can. But being a dick isn't illegal, and absolutely should not be. Don't like a company? Don't give them your money.
Better than letting a console raise your kids and then crying when it turns out you let them spend your rent money. Of course you should supervise what your kids buy.
You understand nothing of psychology; or the benefits of regulation, when it's done right, for that matter. By your logic, con artists and fraudsters would never be punished, because it's not their fault someone managed to fall for their tricks.