Admittedly saying its more effective wasn't the best way of putting it. Saying its a potential compromise with reducing harm to some extent while still allowing it for those that want to play those kinds of games to continue playing them is more what i meant. Feel free to disagree.
Yeah that's better.
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I mean, I'll be honest here, I've been gaming from the start, I think these games are a plague on the industry. I think that the only generation that would miss loot boxes and gacha games if they were banned is this generation, right here. Future generations would not miss them because they'd be gone. Like it'd have been better if cigarettes were banned, once those smokers passed who'd give a shit, you know? And I say that as a smoker lol. So in the long term I think all of society would be better off and it'd only be this generation that's "harmed" by the ban. This isn't pot, people aren't going to be growing gacha games in their basement, game makers will just sell you your waifus for a set price like before and things would be fine.
I liken argument to guns. And I have a gun too. So many people are like can we not ban them, "if we knock of 10 or 20 gun deaths a year would the number of dead be low enough that we can keep our guns?". And I find that crass too because it's all about finding what an acceptable amount of people to be sacrificed is.
Now, I admit, there is an acceptable amount of people to sacrifice for gun ownership, and cigarettes, air pollution and even gambling addiction. If only 10 people a year died to pollution, or were killed in gun violence, or we're addicted to gambling or tobacco or whatever those issues would be non-issues in a country as big as mine.
But I support clean air, support banning tobacco, support banning guns and support banning loot boxes. I think all of them would be huge benefits to society. Hell, I wish smoking had been banned before I was born, maybe I'd have a better vice, or no vice and have an extra 280 bucks a month to do what I wanted with. God what almost 300 more bucks a month could do for my standard of living. I want better for those who come after me even if I personally would probably really miss smoking if it were banned.
While I know there are people that like tobacco, guns, gambling, whatever, I've never meant anyone who it really positively affected, no-one that was empty until they discovered gacha games or guns or smoking. I think that's a key difference between good vices, like exercise, or diet, art and cheap vices like gambling and drugs. I see no way society could be worse off by banning any of the things I mentioned.
And by allowing the things I mentioned just to placate the current generation hooked on them we damn millions, if not billions or trillions, after us to also get addicted to them and to me that math isn't worth it.
