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- - - - The Allure of Virtual Goods (ULTRA-RARE):Virtual goods, be they enticing skins, weapons, cards, or in-game currency, act as digital bait.(seb)
- - - - Recent shifts in monetization, or how developers generate revenue from itsusers, have resulted in new social crises surrounding the regulation of theseindustries (Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter 2009; Nieborg 2011; 2016). As certainforms of monetization are deemed to be exploitative (such as the use of userdata in generating advertising revenue or through the use of gambling-basedmechanics)(Sotamaa, Olli, and Jan Švelch, editors)
- - - - At age 11, Billy Smith (name has been changed) racked up a bill of £464 in one week after making 15 transactions to purchase card packs on a mobile phone game.( Dr James Ash, Dr Rachel Gordon, and Dr Sarah Mills)
        
        since loot boxes are available to be purchased with real money and are always at odds with no guaranteed reward, this is the underage version of gambling and can be detrimental in the development of a child’s brain and how it can affect them in their future lives.(Barry, Megan.)
- - - - The Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) (Dr James Ash, Dr Rachel Gordon, and Dr Sarah Mills)
        
        AAA multibillion-dollar game studio (Nieborg 2011). Players found themselves in a situation where publishers expected them to pay a high initial cost in addition to chance-based microtransactions to efficiently access all game content.
        
        Of course monetising children isn’t about monetising children at all. Children don’t have any money. They have access to money, sure, but it is their parents’ money, not their own. Children are, on the whole, very badly paid.(Betsy reeds)
        
        dopamine spikes, cliffhanger effect, nearmiss impact,loss aversion,escalation tendacy. (Khalid, Zaid)