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Seasons (Destiny)

by squidnh3, Monday, October 23, 2017, 10:22 (2592 days ago) @ Kermit

Great masses of people seem to have no problem with this kind of thing when it's in the guise of a state lottery, which preys on the innumerate (and often poor) disproportionately. I do, but that's mainly because it's state-sanctioned.

The microtransactions in Destiny aren't really gambling because the stakes are nothing of value - they can't be bought or sold. I feel like this is an important distinction, and that comparing buying a random object of zero value to gambling is disingenuous. For an example of how microtransactions can be implemented in an actually dangerous way, I found this article from earlier this year very interesting: Gambling in Counter-Strike.


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