Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

"The company has said in previous court filings that only a fraction of the game's players actually spend money." I was recruited by a sports gambling company and went as far as interviewing with them. I really enjoyed the interview (interesting tech, really smart people) and I've placed a few bets along with friends before in the past without ill effect, so I did some quick checking about how gambling businesses make money. As far as I could tell, across…

Gambling (in its many forms) has been getting out-of-hand for so many demographics recently. Not just loot boxes and in-game casinos, but cryptocurrency gambling, sports betting, options and stock gambling, and much more. It seems like everywhere I go I enter huge gambling markets, and I see the same patterns of behavior in all of them, and the amount of people that are hurt terribly, sometimes to the point of complete financial ruin or even suicide, is immense. More immense…

And games have taken far more. Game of War "like gambling with no chance of winning" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/california-man-s...