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opt out of gambling mechanisms
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Posted: Fri, 25/11/2022 12:23 (2 Years ago)
It should look something like this:
With the first box checked, for example, if you head over to the black friday deal, you won't see the Black Friday Box option anymore:
This is beneficial because it prevents people with impulsive behavior to 'waste' all of their pd and/or their nuggets just on a slight chance for something great. If they can't even see the deal, then they (most likely) aren't able to be tempted by it.
This option could also prevent the player from opening mystery boxes/viewing mystery boxes/keys in the item market, but there could be a third setting option for that as well. (To be fair, I'm not sure how hard that would be to code in)
Now, here's my reasoning for the second option: gambling addicts are able to go to casinos to ask to be banned. Seeing as people are able to do that, it should be the same for the Game Center. My idea on making this work is that instead of a permanent ban, you can be temporarily banned (multiple options to select: the minimum being a month, maximum being six months maybe?) and once the duration ends, you're able to be unbanned by him and play again. When you try entering the Game Center while temporarily banned from it, he can tell you how many days/months are left until you're allowed back in. This will let players continue to gain GGC from interacting, it just prevents them from spending it if they're struggling to save it up.*
* an option could instead be added to limit yourself on how much GC/GGC you're allowed to spend per reset, but as I personally know, this option would be disregarded/the limit would be set incredibly high by people who impulsively spend who are tired of the limits, thus making it redundant and in effect, unhelpful and useless to those with gambling issues! the only true way to deal with this would be via banning yourself at the game center, which, even if it won't stop everyone with issues, it will help a majority as proven by real life situations involving gambling!
thus, my alternative proposition is:
* during the advent calendar, on game center related tasks, you're able to access the game center, but ONLY the game needed. (ex, only being able to access HOL for the day, etc). after reset, unless there is another game center related task, your temp ban would be re-enabled and you'd be unable to access game center again until the next task appears or until you decide to unban yourself.
For the Game Center, it could look something like this when you try to go there:
Or, when unbanned:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What about the hourly tasks/magearna raffle/participating in the coinflip rally?
This shouldn't be something we need to worry about if we're already impulsively spending all of our gamechips on other things! People who are prone to gambling related mechanics in games and on sites aren't going to prioritize stuff like the hourly tasks or the raffle if they're spending everything on the treasure chest game or the lottery, for example. It's perfectly fine if you're wanting to participate in those things and don't have issues with gambling, this is for people who very heavily struggle with those aspects on sites and need to be able to prevent themselves from spending all their real or virtual currency! :)
I'm open to making changes to my suggestion based on feedback :)
Posted: Sun, 11/12/2022 14:31 (1 Year ago)
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Posted: Fri, 23/12/2022 16:32 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Sun, 08/01/2023 15:34 (1 Year ago)
real-world gambling allows you to ban yourself from gambling, and so should this site's (any site's, really) gambly games.
this is so important
What's that Pride Flag? (with gem prizes)
train my friends?
i obviously do unreturned favours
Posted: Sun, 08/01/2023 15:38 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Sun, 08/01/2023 15:44 (1 Year ago)
that's how it works in the real world too, you're just banned for however long you (or someone on your behalf) said you should be banned, no take-backsies
as for accidentally checking the box i mean tough luck? maybe a pop-up window saying something like 'this will ban you from the game center for (time). are you sure you want this?' so you can't click it accidentally and if someone still accidentally clicked it it's not that horrible or game-breaking to be banned from the game center for a bit
that's just my opinion tho
What's that Pride Flag? (with gem prizes)
train my friends?
i obviously do unreturned favours
Posted: Sun, 08/01/2023 17:25 (1 Year ago)
yeah!! i feel that there should be at least some countermeasures in place which is why i made this suggestion :) i think its important to be able to have those implemented restrictions when you have no self control over it/for those that dont otherwise it may end up driving that audience away because of their inability to save up to make progress
@XYZ
id want there to be multiple options to select for a temporary ban (which is why i said the lowest possible time could be a one month temp ban). it would be beneficial for there to be a warning or notice beforehand so people know what theyre doing. unfortunately, if they had the option to unban themselves at any given moment with no repercussions to it then it would make the problem worse since it wouldnt actually be restraining them.
Posted: Sun, 08/01/2023 23:00 (1 Year ago)
1. dream point tasks
2. magearna raffle
3. coin flip rally
and generally, you might want to unban yourself later when you need to do something, so this feature could cause trouble
Posted: Tue, 17/01/2023 17:59 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Wed, 18/01/2023 23:54 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Tue, 24/01/2023 22:38 (1 Year ago)
Example: can only spend (X) amount of GC a day/can only spend (X) PD a week to buy GC/can only spend (X) nuggets in the GC a month.
Posted: Sun, 12/02/2023 10:43 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Thu, 16/02/2023 07:26 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Tue, 07/03/2023 03:03 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Sun, 12/03/2023 20:10 (1 Year ago)
i mean they're not hidden in the premium settings for users that don't have premium or on the shadow radar page for users that don't have the shadow radar yet (at least as far as i'm aware), so there might be a way to make them not show up in the game center for someone who's banned from it
What's that Pride Flag? (with gem prizes)
train my friends?
i obviously do unreturned favours
Posted: Tue, 14/03/2023 22:45 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Thu, 27/07/2023 12:33 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Thu, 23/11/2023 03:57 (1 Year ago)
Posted: Tue, 08/10/2024 10:40 (1 Month ago)