• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Damn, got 'em. Actually, they deserve to lose $16,000 while raising a gambling addict because they didn’t pull up their bootstraps and micromanage everything their preteen does in “that colorful game they play.”

        Mate, asking under-13s to get parent permission is provoking that good parenting you seem to care about anyway—what on earth is the problem?

        • desktop_user [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          Parental controls (or just not inputting card details into a phone the child has access to) is a fairly effective way to prevent the child spending the parent’s money without then knowing. Micromanagement is not typically considered good parenting; however showing interest in, and having some knowledge of, what your child spends significant time doing is.

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                  2 months ago

                  Not everyone buys a separate device for their children or knows how to/can set up a user account.

                  This comment is a parenting related issue, the technicality illiterate might forget to take the proper precautions when letting their child use their phone and blame the game instead of taking responsibility for their actions.

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                    2 months ago

                    No, you’re making it one to sidestep an issue.

                    If this bad parenting happens often enough to be a real problem, then whining into the wind that “no one has any common sense anymore,” or whatever you’re doing, isn’t a solution.

                    I do blame the game a little because it’s a game that really, really, really wants you to spend money on diamond gem funbucks.

                    Let me ask you this question, hm? You don’t want to show your ID even though we all do that for alcohol—fine. Why not: $80 up front, all banners are periodic DLCs, some of them free, there is more than enough korok seeds in game to get all of them, and they never expire—infinite time to twiddle your thumbs before completing them. Would this not solve your ID problem?

                    That is, unless you would like to spearhead this global movement to teach underprivileged parents how to configure their phones?