Videogame monetisation models are on the exact same trajectory as gambling, and with no hand stepping in and preventing that trajectory it will always eventually reach the point of using every single exploitative tactic of gambling in order to extract money from its audiences.
The natural end point of monetising games to the absolutely critical maximum is eventually reaching the same practices as gambling. Both are the monetisation of games. The two industries would eventually naturally merge into one another if nobody prevented it.
Regulate the monetisation models and keep re-regulating the new models because they will ALWAYS travel on this trajectory, finding new ways to exploit better that aren't currently regulated, and doing it over and over and over in a permanent cycle.
It's actually plain and simple.
Videogame monetisation models are on the exact same trajectory as gambling, and with no hand stepping in and preventing that trajectory it will always eventually reach the point of using every single exploitative tactic of gambling in order to extract money from its audiences.
The natural end point of monetising games to the absolutely critical maximum is eventually reaching the same practices as gambling. Both are the monetisation of games. The two industries would eventually naturally merge into one another if nobody prevented it.
Regulate the monetisation models and keep re-regulating the new models because they will ALWAYS travel on this trajectory, finding new ways to exploit better that aren't currently regulated, and doing it over and over and over in a permanent cycle.