Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…

  • Furedadmins@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Parental controls are a thing on all of these systems aren’t they? If not they should be.

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      8 months ago

      They are, though to be fair they are usually very difficult and confusing to use, and in the case of Sony child accounts cannot be turned in to full accounts down the line so any purchases would have to be lost to enable a now adult to control their own account. 1st parties could do a hell of a lot better.

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      7 months ago

      Nope! Why would the company intentionally limit the way they designed the game? That’s counterproductive.