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Half of their games didn't amount to much more than child gambling. I guess the saving grace is that people weren't there very often. Still I'd be curious to kn
by z_open 2y ago
Half of their games didn't amount to much more than child gambling. I guess the saving grace is that people weren't there very often. Still I'd be curious to know if there is any sort of research as to whether childhood gambling transfers to adulthood.
- csande17 2y agoHaven't been to Chuck E Cheese's in a while, but I wonder if they've toned some of that down since moving from tokens to (optionally "all you can play" time-based) cards. Back in my day, the slot machines and coin pusher games served as a lesson against gambling, since they ate all your tokens really quickly and you almost never won anything significant.
- ianhawes 2y agoI haven’t been to a Chuck E Cheese in at least 15 years BUT I have been to other “arcades”, including Main Event, and the trend for those has been make 90% of the games child gambling to maximize profit. It’s boring for my young children who don’t fully grasp the ticket concept and aren’t entertained by winning points. I remember the games of my childhood being much more about entertainment than they are now.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoA better metaphor than gambling is carnival games, the prize return on investment in arcade gaming is systemically low. I've worked at several game companies and never known a single gamer in my life who's been interested in gambling. The sports community is obviously what's being taken over by gambling. Sports are being so thoroughly defined by and ruined by it that it's weird to think of gambling as a big deal in other contexts. If you try to apply the gambling moral panic to video games it doesn't work because sports so conspicuously shows what it looks like when the slippery slope is real and not just hypothetical. Trying to see the effects of gambling anywhere but with sports right now is like trying to see the stars when the sun is out.