Banning rarely accomplishes anything, it just moves one appearance of the problem out of sight for a period of time.
Is it useless to ban children from using cocaine and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the US just because they’re not banned in Somalia?
I don't think it affects the point you're making, I just thought it might be interesting to share.
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If there is worthwhile money to be made they'll already be going to those countries regardless what countries with regulation do.
They could just block the EU region and publish to other countries instead. Plenty of games, especially from Asia, already block all EU countries from playing. Usually they're looking to sell a license or don't know how to enter the market. Nevertheless, they are absolutely willing to block the EU region.
I see so many Europeans repeating the line that if Europe regulates X together, then companies will have to care, because they can't ignore the European market. This might be true in other industries, but it's not true in gaming. I would even say that it's more common for the European market to be treated as second class than not when it comes to online games.
Also, it's not about the children. Children don't make their own money - they only have money that parents give them. Even if these games banned children from playing them, a lot of the people complaining about it still wouldn't stop. The problem for them is that they can't make their friends stop playing these games, so they want the government to stop them instead.
I don't like when games monetize stuff like Diablo Immortal does. I hate it. But I'm certain that when legislation does arrive it'll be broad enough that other stuff gets caught up in it and the people advocating for it will just shrug their shoulders and go "lol i didn't care about games anyway".
> They will just move on to countries with less regulation, which usually means poorer countries with less educated people. You can probably see where this is going.
Great - they've moved on from my country because of the ban.
> Banning rarely accomplishes anything, it just moves one appearance of the problem out of sight for a period of time.
Just above you told me what it was accomplishing. And if it "just moves one appearance of [capitalism making it so that businesses have desirable incentives that would make them willing to literally instill gambling problems in children] out of sight for a period of time" then also GREAT! That's what the legislation was FOR.
If the legislation stops working, we can discuss again then.
* According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy.
* The futility thesis holds that attempts at social transformation will be unavailing, that they will simply fail to "make a dent."
* Finally, the jeopardy thesis argues that the cost of the proposed change or reform is too high as it endangers some previous, precious accomplishment.
This is #3, a threat that any type of action will harm poor people.
> Banning rarely accomplishes anything, it just moves one appearance of the problem out of sight for a period of time.
This is #2, futility in its widest sense. Not just this ban won't work, no bans work!
This knee-jerk application of libertarian ideology makes even less sense in this situation than usual. The gaming industry is dependent on improving computer hardware hardware, in-game sales rely on consumers with at least a certain degree of expendable capital. The core markets will always be countries that are well off, companies cant 'just go elsewhere' without significantly sacrificing their potential income.
Also you do realise that the wealth of a country does not correlate directly to it's levels of education?
Edit: Not any more. Even Algeria finally got their show together in 2021.
If the ban is easy to enforce I do not think this is true. IMO it is when the ban is next to impossible to enforce when the crime just shifts (drugs, for instance)
It's obnoxious how unpopular points get censored around here.