Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "Twitch Banned Gambling" video.

@Flipflopflopper Average Genshin Impact players spend $25 a month on the game but there is something very shitty about the videogames industry called "whales". Game publishers are building games and operating them in a way that amasses the maximum amount of people despite losing on direct income just because they know the addicted whale is gonna spend 5 figures on the game within their first year of playing. That's why gacha games have made BILLIONS in micro-transactions despite being 100% free to play. Game publishers take the whales into account, it's a real thing that they focus on. They're building their games to appeal to the whales and to make sure the whales loose as much money and are as dedicated as they could ever be. And obviously I know that these gambling sites are less regulated but when you realize that millions of lives have been destroyed because of videogame addictions (failing education, losing job, burning bridges with family/friends, etc...) and that the videogame industry is engineering videogames the same way casinos have engineered slots, you kinda feel like at best people have biases or at worst are straight hypocrites.
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