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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

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    Arguably it is, just not in the conventional way. As a player, you’re spending your time (and money to buy the game) with the hope of winning some dopamine from it. As a developer/studio, you’re gambling time and money to devrlop a game in the hopes that it does well and makes the money back

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      Lmao that is not what anyone means when they say gambling and you know it.

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      By that logic, all entertainment is gambling. Petting a cat is gambling. Hiking is gambling. You’re gambling by replying in this thread.

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      By that metric, any business endeavor is gambling.

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        Unless its fraud

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        I think that’s the joke

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      It’s about loot boxes and the like

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