this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
179 points (100.0% liked)

Games

38929 readers
1294 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

Platform specific

Game specific

Language specific

Others

PM a mod to add your own

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Stupid parents give their kids unlimited access to mobile payments.

It’s like basic parental controls are a black art only few master

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

To be fair, basic skills for being a human seem to have become a black art that only few can master. So expecting them to be responsible parents is actually probably a bit too high of an expectation. This isn't an excuse to be a bad parent, of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Of course parents not taking appropriate precautions doesn't absolve the companies of responsibility. Unethical behavior is unethical behavior, even if there are things consumers can do to protect themselves from it. After all, the precautions wouldn't be necessary if the companies didn't engage in this behavior in the first place, so these precautions aren't really solutions only mitigations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

And because of them a bunch of games on Steam and other platforms are banned in my country. I occasionaly check SteamDB and see a popular game or new release and I can't find it in the store because apparently it is blocked in my country.

Wish there was a way for us to just see all games, because this usually involves games that have lootboxes that are entirely optional and I will never buy, but because some undisciplined kids and terrible parents the rest of us have to pay the price for it.