Next they should ban blind box toys and other rarity based gambling like Pokémon cards or those lol dolls and similar.
I get kids like Pokémon, they like surprise boxes, but it’s gambling. Variable reward systems are gambling. I worked in the collectables industry for a very short time, I saw how much money people spend on this, it’s abusive.
If they sold only deterministic boosters and externally numbered packs the kids would have just as much fun and it would ruin the gambling aspects that lead to scalping and addiction.
There’s no scalping if a pack says “Pack No. 232” and you can look up the contents online, and cards are only allowed a maximum rarity (I.e. if the average number of packs to open to get any card is a multiple higher than the twice or triple the average number of cards, then you’re gambling — that is determined by the geometric distribution and the math is simple).
This is even verifiable without opening packs, because you can use the numbers to assess relative frequencies.
Good.
Next they should ban blind box toys and other rarity based gambling like Pokémon cards or those lol dolls and similar.
I get kids like Pokémon, they like surprise boxes, but it’s gambling. Variable reward systems are gambling. I worked in the collectables industry for a very short time, I saw how much money people spend on this, it’s abusive.
If they sold only deterministic boosters and externally numbered packs the kids would have just as much fun and it would ruin the gambling aspects that lead to scalping and addiction.
There’s no scalping if a pack says “Pack No. 232” and you can look up the contents online, and cards are only allowed a maximum rarity (I.e. if the average number of packs to open to get any card is a multiple higher than the twice or triple the average number of cards, then you’re gambling — that is determined by the geometric distribution and the math is simple).
This is even verifiable without opening packs, because you can use the numbers to assess relative frequencies.