hmz only 1% to get this skin i really want it so i can make my friends jealous.
1 dollar for 1 box.
Opens 20 boxes. ( because extra free box )
Shit i am so unlucky, still don't go the skin god dam it. Now i blew 20 bucks and have nothing to show for it other then useless trash.
Fak it i will just buy another 20 boxes as i get 2 boxes for free then, i can't be unlucky twice.
Opens 20 boxes ( still nothing )
Again unlucky, now i already spend 40 bucks on it. god dam it, why am i so unlucky.
100 bucks later, still got nothing. But now i wasted 100 bucks and got nothing to show for it, i need to keep going now as i atleast need to have the skin to validate my money spending.
And tada you got your typical gambling addition right there.
I saw people open 100's of boxes, spend's 10k euro's on random chances in games to get something out of it and get nothing as result and couldn't stop because they wouldn't have anything to show for it. those trash junk you get out of it has zero mental value to these people and can be just seen as trash entirely.
You have zero idea on how damaging gambling can be, and what a shit hole it can become. I was in a guild on ragnarok online that was decked out with girls that blew there whole paychecks on the game just to get a chance to get enchants on there weapons and skins that most of the time didn't happen until they plumped in 1000's of bucks.
I specifically remembered this girl always having the " rare skin new head gear" and asked at some point she needed some ingame money if i could sell some ingame items she had on her account. She gave me 150 items that you only get 1 of out of 100 buck box. I was honestly shocked and then you heard her brother on the background yelling at her when he would get his 1500 bucks back she loaned the day before the new head gear came out. ( guess where that money went ).
After spending insane amounts of money on those accounts, they all got banned soon after because EU law was not something in the best interest for the company so they ended up banning all EU people that played the game which resulted in massive anger to the point of some girls actually where going the extra step try to find out where these people lived in real life. Because they felt like there whole world was destroyed and the only thing they had left was pure anger, because there whole life got destroyed as they lived through the game.
Gambling and online gaming addictions are real. Some people live in games as its there real life and getting the best and shiny hat can put them in the hole massively when company's go the extra mile in trying to exploit them.
I think random chance items / skins or whatever in games should never be allowed. They should sell you the item straight away or not at all.
You want that skin? thats 25 bucks and not 1% chance on a drop.
I even loaned at some point to a guy i know 200 bucks, just to realize he gambled it away on a god dam skin that he never got. I didn't asked the money back and just said it was a gift to not damage our friendship as the dude as already in a hell hole of dept in general and i would never get it back anyway.
And these people where not kids they where 30-40 year olds, imagine a kid that works at a god dam store for barely any money and blows it in 10 seconds on boxes and get nothing out of it. Just to work more so he blows it again in order for the hope to get more lucky next time and fixes the damage he caused mentally towards himself.
Real money gambling for rewards in a game is ridiculous and unacceptable on any level and that's exactly what they do.