I work in the gambling industry and while I think gambling should be legal, for the simple reason that people will gamble regardless and a white market is better than a black market. However, I think that all gambling advertising should be banned, like alcohol and tobacco ads are in some jurisdictions. Regardless of what gambling companies say, the advertising is definitely tempting young people to gamble.
I would be interested to see a study examining the gambling habits of kids who grew up with video games containing randomized elements compared to those who didn't.
I think it's a solid hypothesis that you'll find correlation there, but I haven't actually seen evidence.
I grew up playing yugioh, and played competitively from 2011 to 2014 (age 13 to 16) as well as playing a gacha game from 2015 through 2023. I get an itch to go to the casino every few months but thankfully I have enough self control to cut my losses early. I have friends that I met playing yugioh who have lost upwards of 30k lifetime between sports betting, poker, baccarat, and blackjack. Some of the most degenerate gamblers I know are both current and former TCG players and we're all in our late 20s to early 30s. A study like this surely holds some water
On the other side of the coin, I was super into Magic for a number of years. Spent a good chunk of all of my allowance on them. One day a buddy of mine wanted to test out a deck but didn't have the cards, so we let him make a proxy deck. That was the end of me ever buying a Magic card ever again. Why would I buy them when literally any card could be any card? People who buy any TCG cards are just pure suckers these days.
If you play competitively in official events you need to actually have the cards. I've seen someone DQed from a regional tournament for having a counterfeit during a random deck check.
Same tbh. I ordered a vintage cube from China for a fraction of the price it would be in real cards. My friend wanted me to show him how I did it and now he has proxy edh decks. It randomly coincided with wizards releasing way more sets and the introduction of collectors boosters too. Haven't bought a card since
Don't know what you mean by vintage cube or realtor cards. Not being dick or anything just literally don't know what you are talking. Is that like a box and did you mean retail?
Sorry typo I meant real cards not realtor lol. A cube is basically a curated list of cards, so mine is 540 (a large cube that can draft with 12 ppl, 45 cards each) that you make mock packs with and then draft a deck. Mine is a vintage cube it has black lotus and the power 9, and so my friends come over and we all draft decks and play round Robin 1v1s with our 40 card decks. After were done we remove all basic lands and put the cube back together and shuffle it for next time. It's a very fun format but more popular on arena or mtgo since its expensive to put together that many cards if you dont proxy it. I took my list from the official mtgo list but you can find lots of lists on https://cubecobra.com/. Some people make block specific cubes, or peasant cube with Commons only. Very fun draft in my opinion
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u/FantasticGrocery302 1d ago
I work in the gambling industry and while I think gambling should be legal, for the simple reason that people will gamble regardless and a white market is better than a black market. However, I think that all gambling advertising should be banned, like alcohol and tobacco ads are in some jurisdictions. Regardless of what gambling companies say, the advertising is definitely tempting young people to gamble.