Hard to hit pause: Excessive gaming lands on the EU's radar | Euractiv
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EU lawmakers are eyeing controls on 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games via the upcoming Digital Fairness Act
  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
    132·
    2 months ago

    Loot boxes and microtransactions made me hate playing videogames.

    • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah. I think part of it is just that I’ve grown out of them. But part of it is enshittification.

        • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
          52·
          2 months ago

          Your tastes may change and you might have changed as a person as you aged but there’s nothing to “grow out of”. Games aren’t inherently childish. Certain ones can be, but games as a whole aren’t

    • doublah@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Luckily for you, there’s more games without any loot boxes or micro transactions than you can play in your lifetime.