I get the whole video game addiction thing, but not when it comes to kids. Ultimately, it is your responsibility as a parent to take control of such situations. How did the kid run up his parents' credit card to $3,000? Why is $350 per month still coming out of his parents' bank account? Why are the parents allowing their son to play video games 14 hours per day?
These are ALL things the parents can control. In fact, I would say that it's child abuse on their part for letting it get out of hand. I mean if they really want to play the addiction card, swap the video games for heroin. Would they have bought him a bag of smack? would they just let him use their card or cash to go buy drugs? No. So how can they blame the game companies for addiction when they could have prevented it?
Don't get me wrong. Game companies do sometimes use sleazy tactics to get players to consume more of their content and premium items-- and I'm not talking about Blizzard and Diablo IV. /s But let's not get into this whole 'my son is addicted to video games because companies' thing when the real problem is 'my son is addicted to video games because I chose to use Xbox as a babysitter.'
Recent video game addiction lawsuit lists five major video game publishers as liable for...
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Exactly, Cal! I've been bitching about lazy parenting since the 80s. And here we are in the 21st century and it's gotten worse every generation since then. These parents should be charged with child neglect for what THEY have allowed their child to do. They're the type of parents who are called to school because of their spoiled brat's bad behavior, and they defend their kid by saying that it's the school's fault for the brat's behavior. These kinds of parents were raised being told that they're "special" and could do anything they want and never told NO or given any consequences for the bad things they did every day. It's not surprising that they "parent" their progeny the same way and blame everyone else for their children's behavior, just like their lazy parents did. It's these generations who don't want to take responsibility for their actions and blame everything on something besides themselves because it would make them feel "bad" to fess up and take responsibility.
I've been bitching about lazy parenting since the 80s. And here we are in the 21st century and it's gotten worse every generation since then. These parents should be charged with child neglect for what THEY have allowed their child to do. They're the type of parents who are called to school because of their spoiled brat's bad behavior, and they defend their kid by saying that it's the school's fault for the brat's behavior. These kinds of parents were raised being told that they're "special" and could do anything they want and never told NO or given any consequences for the bad things they did every day. It's not surprising that they "parent" their progeny the same way and blame everyone else for their children's behavior, just like their lazy parents did. It's these generations who don't want to take responsibility for their actions and blame everything on something besides themselves because it would make them feel "bad" to fess up and take responsibility.
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I agree that if true, that could be actionable. It would be interesting to see the discovery along those lines. Many people are rightly skeptical over blaming companies for servicing their own desires and vices (as amply seen in this thread); but most people understand the problem with a crooked slot machine. If there are publishers lying and cheating as to how loot is dispensed, they have something to answer for.
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