Youth advocates are sounding the alarm: popular games such as “Minecraft”, “FIFA” or “Fortnite” play on the inexperience of children and deliberately lure them with manipulative mechanisms in front of the screens, which can lead to pathological “gaming disorders”. You can read here which so-called dark patterns are used and how you can tell if your child is addicted to gaming.
Originally, game manufacturers made money by selling DVDs or CDs. Nowadays, sales mainly take place digitally. The providers of popular games mainly generate revenue when users spend a lot of time in the game, spend money in in-game stores or consume advertisements. This means that today’s online games – just like social networks – increasingly use so-called dark patterns to lure children and young people in front of their screens. And these manipulative, at worst addictive designs are widespread.
Source: Krone
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