Arguably it is, just not in the conventional way. As a player, you’re spending your time (and money to buy the game) with the hope of winning some dopamine from it. As a developer/studio, you’re gambling time and money to devrlop a game in the hopes that it does well and makes the money back
Most video games aren’t gambling …
Are you implying there might be some fraud?
The games that generate the most profit are.
The rest are art.
Art sales are used to legitimatize money transfers for fraud. So fraud.
Pretty sure that’s a very small fraction of all art.
And art doesn’t make money.
Gambling does.
Arguably it is, just not in the conventional way. As a player, you’re spending your time (and money to buy the game) with the hope of winning some dopamine from it. As a developer/studio, you’re gambling time and money to devrlop a game in the hopes that it does well and makes the money back
It’s about loot boxes and the like
By that logic, all entertainment is gambling. Petting a cat is gambling. Hiking is gambling. You’re gambling by replying in this thread.
Lmao that is not what anyone means when they say gambling and you know it.
By that metric, any business endeavor is gambling.
I think that’s the joke
Unless its fraud
i think the meme creator was probably talking about the prevalence of lootboxes and skin gambling with that