The mafia loves making easy money from exploiting addiction. I don't need to mention any examples.
Right now exploiting addiction (gambling) with lootboxes is a huge deal in the gaming industry.
Publishers are making billions of dollars out of hardly no effort at all after the main product is done. They are basically printing money themselves. Hundreds of millions of dollars are flying into their accounts every month while they take it easy in their offices, maybe watching youtube videos most of the day. All they have to do is to code a few skins or a map every month or two.
Personally I find it strange that the Mafia hasn't tried to get in on the AAA-lootbox cake yet. They just need to outsource a game and get a hit, and there you go - the mafia will become a part of the gaming industry and once they do, do not expect them to go away. A game like PUBG could easily have been outsourced to China by the mafia, and become a hit.
Do you think it will happen sooner or later? Sadly, I think we are not far away from it, I think many groups are already planning stuff. There is no way they will miss out on all this free money.
It is already famous in the mobile gaming industry that many microtransaction/lootbox games are 100% funded by the mafia, will the next step be AAA games?
What can we do to prevent this?
Right now exploiting addiction (gambling) with lootboxes is a huge deal in the gaming industry.
Publishers are making billions of dollars out of hardly no effort at all after the main product is done. They are basically printing money themselves. Hundreds of millions of dollars are flying into their accounts every month while they take it easy in their offices, maybe watching youtube videos most of the day. All they have to do is to code a few skins or a map every month or two.
Personally I find it strange that the Mafia hasn't tried to get in on the AAA-lootbox cake yet. They just need to outsource a game and get a hit, and there you go - the mafia will become a part of the gaming industry and once they do, do not expect them to go away. A game like PUBG could easily have been outsourced to China by the mafia, and become a hit.
Do you think it will happen sooner or later? Sadly, I think we are not far away from it, I think many groups are already planning stuff. There is no way they will miss out on all this free money.
It is already famous in the mobile gaming industry that many microtransaction/lootbox games are 100% funded by the mafia, will the next step be AAA games?
What can we do to prevent this?
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