Quote from: mcdouglasx on February 05, 2025, 10:03:03 PM

I understand that with loot boxes in some video games, these items like skins, weapons, tools, among others, can be traded for real money. However, there are others that are equally addictive without any monetary benefit. On the other hand, with casinos, in general, you can win money 100% of the time. Therefore, these cases of addiction are not strictly related to money, but the loss of money would be more of a consequence. So, to what degree is money a stimulating factor in addictions?

Is the loss of money just collateral damage?

The only difference is that in those games that you need to farm loot boxes you buy the objects with money and you own them in the game forever while in gambling you have 0 warranties that you will get something out of it. So in gambling you may lose all your money and get nothing in return while in normal games where you buy items you are using money to get something in return for sure. So the conclusion is that the addiction of gambling is far more worse than addiction in games where you farm items.