Forgotten Tales

ardesia wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:05 pm

Leone wrote: I guess there is a slightly tenuous link to gambling when you have a choice of placing different amounts of gold in the altar. Sometimes you get a gift and other times you are attacked.

Admittedly, this is by no means a casino but a precedent has *sort of* been set.

This is true, but it is thought to be used on sporadic occasions, while a casino would be meant to spend time in it even on regular basis.

Khmer wrote: Right, because video games don't increase addiction tendencies in real life

There are several differences between gambling and games (or playing games).
A huge one is that in gambling you do nothing but deciding to gamble, while in games you act on a decision-making and problem-solving situation, in which you have to plan your actions on short- and long-term tactical/strategical decisions.

There is no personal competences and capabilities ones has to use in gambling, and there's a lot in playing games. This difference is crucial.

Researches show that slot machines tend to reinforce and enhance addiction tendencies. There is no such result (as far as I know of) about videogames.

Addiction to gambling is a serious and raising issue in my country.
I boycott stores owning slot machines, and I'm not going to support them to be added in any game

Compulsive computer game playing, gambling, and risk taking can result from excessive craving of the dopamine pleasure, especially when people are depressed or do not have other sources of pleasurable experiences in their lives.

Both gaming and gambling are enjoyable activities for the masses, for an addictive personality however, a set of personality traits that make an individual more prone to develop addictions to drugs, alcohol or other habit-forming behaviors, they are identical and it's naive and/or hypocritical to think otherwise.

and BTW, although video gaming is far newer to society than gambling, there is a ton of research, articles and results to substantiate such

blitzcraig wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:17 am I don't personally have any issues with any of this, and I agree that gaming and gambling can both clearly lead to problems for those with addiction issues... however, to say that they're identical is demonstrably false. Gaming can certainly lead to more gaming, and other social (or antisocial) actions which will form habits and can be detrimental to a person's well-being. However, to say that playing an rpg can just as likely lead to gambling as actual gambling does is simply not true... gambling is proven to lead to higher-stakes gambling for people with addiction issues at an insanely high rate, similar to how gaming can lead to a more intense gaming addiction - the chemical reactions in the brain are certainly similar (as they are with many forms of addiction) ... but the "cross-over" rate is virtually nonexistent (i.e. a gambler doesn't sit at a slot machine for 30 hours and suddenly feel the urge to go play an mmorpg unless they're already developing a gaming addiction as well, and vice-versa)