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So it's the company's fault that the parents were not properly monitoring their children? How is this not going to be immediately thrown out?
EDIT: Holy crap, the woman who filed this suit is psycho
So are we going to sue every soft drink company next because they put sugar and caffeine in their drinks and it makes us addicted/fat when we don't exercise self control?
Tell me you don't have kids, without saying you dont have kids
I mean, I do, but whether or not I have kids is not really important to this subject. Even a person without children can make the same comment.
If a child develops an addiction to video games (which I'm not sure exactly how that is classified, does the child suffer physical withdrawals from not playing video games? Might they die from it like people addicted to hard drugs?) that is the fault of either the parent neglecting to keep track of how much time their kid spends playing video games, or the fault of the parent allowing their kid to spend too much time playing video games. Its not the fault of the kid, its not the fault of the game development studio or publisher, its not the fault of the ESRB or anyone else, its not anyone's fault but the parent's.
While I agree that gaming companies regularly engage in shady business practices, it is the responsibility of the parent and not a company to teach their kid that not every hour of every day is for playing video games. The world is not a circus, and as difficult as it may be, sometimes you have to say no to your kid. I never want to say no, because I often wish I could be a kid again and not have to worry about real life responsibilities. But not saying no to your kid (when appropriate) is telling them that you do not love them, because you are setting them up to fail later in life.
TLDR: The point is, the woman filing this lawsuit is trying to dodge parenting responsibilities by passing it off as "not her fault," but "the company's fault." That's mental.
Fuck the parents, absolutely.
But put every single executive at every company with lootboxes in prison for the blatant unregulated gambling they're putting in games.
Physical dependence isn't the real issue with hard drugs, either. If it was, supervised detox would be an actual resolution instead of having almost no success. The brain chemistry being abused in gambling and gaming addiction that modern gaming companies deliberately instigate is exactly the same as it is with crack and meth. The dopamine doesn't start as strong, but it's identical otherwise, and identical in an addict.