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Dilbert2001
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Kat Stryke said :
Jagex: "We care about mental health."
Also Jagex: "BUY MORE KEYS!"
Yeah...nothing screams mental health quite like pushing people into addiction. Using MTX to promote good mental health is like having an open bar at an AA meeting. It's inappropriate.
For those who cannot see the irony, allow me to remind you of the following:
FOMO means Fear Of Missing Out. The operative word is FEAR.
FOMO does not mean For Our Mental Outlook.
Love,
Kat
TH keys can't do a thing in this charity event.
There is also no FOMO factor the items can be obtained either playing the game regularly or buy from SGS at any time.
You are so close to understanding the point, but you're not quite there.
True, TH keys have nothing to do with promoting mental health.
That is the point being made here.
Imagine if Jagex owned a gym, where overweight RuneScape players could go to work out and lose weight, because they care about the players' physical health. Then Jagex installs some fast food franchises right there inside the gym, so that all those players struggling with food addiction can smell all those delicious treats while trying to exercise.
Sure, you can say, "Fast food has nothing to do with promoting physical health." and you'd be correct. However, if you cannot see that the fast food being sold there in the gym is an obstacle to the players making healthy choices as they try to resist temptation, your observation does nothing to address the actual problem.
Saying you care about an issue is fine, but if your solution is to make the problem worse, you are literally doing more harm than good. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
Kat Stryke said :
Jagex: "We care about mental health."
Also Jagex: "BUY MORE KEYS!"
Yeah...nothing screams mental health quite like pushing people into addiction. Using MTX to promote good mental health is like having an open bar at an AA meeting. It's inappropriate.
For those who cannot see the irony, allow me to remind you of the following:
FOMO means Fear Of Missing Out. The operative word is FEAR.
FOMO does not mean For Our Mental Outlook.
Love,
Kat
TH keys can't do a thing in this charity event.
There is also no FOMO factor the items can be obtained either playing the game regularly or buy from SGS at any time.
You are so close to understanding the point, but you're not quite there.
True, TH keys have nothing to do with promoting mental health.
That is the point being made here.
Imagine if Jagex owned a gym, where overweight RuneScape players could go to work out and lose weight, because they care about the players' physical health. Then Jagex installs some fast food franchises right there inside the gym, so that all those players struggling with food addiction can smell all those delicious treats while trying to exercise.
Sure, you can say, "Fast food has nothing to do with promoting physical health." and you'd be correct. However, if you cannot see that the fast food being sold there in the gym is an obstacle to the players making healthy choices as they try to resist temptation, your observation does nothing to address the actual problem.
Saying you care about an issue is fine, but if your solution is to make the problem worse, you are literally doing more harm than good. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
27-May-2023 09:24:25
Dilbert2001
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BrunoNutto said :
Dilbert, you're missing the point of this thread. OP was talking about the TH key Foresight to Train. He obviously bought a whole bunch of keys to prepare for it, and then was hit with a better promo offer just after buying them.
The point he was making was that Jagex shouldn't make a song and dance about supporting a mental health charity in public; whilst doing this sort of thing to harm their own players who suffer from compulsive addictions to the gambling aspect of TH.
No. OP and the others are missing the point rather. Mental Health Week has nothing to do with the TH key. Even if you have to pick on MTX, why is TH a problem but it is OK for RS3 and OSRS to continue to sell Bonds MTX during Mental Health Week?
Literally nobody said that in this thread.
Nobody even mentioned bonds until you brought them up.
Although your obvious red herring argument is obvious, I will address it anyway.
If either game assaulted players with a pop-up ad pushing bonds as a way to celebrate mental health awareness, I would also find that inappropriate. It's still MTX. If a player is addicted to buying bonds to the point where it becomes a problem, then no it is not ok. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
BrunoNutto said :
Dilbert, you're missing the point of this thread. OP was talking about the TH key Foresight to Train. He obviously bought a whole bunch of keys to prepare for it, and then was hit with a better promo offer just after buying them.
The point he was making was that Jagex shouldn't make a song and dance about supporting a mental health charity in public; whilst doing this sort of thing to harm their own players who suffer from compulsive addictions to the gambling aspect of TH.
No. OP and the others are missing the point rather. Mental Health Week has nothing to do with the TH key. Even if you have to pick on MTX, why is TH a problem but it is OK for RS3 and OSRS to continue to sell Bonds MTX during Mental Health Week?
Literally nobody said that in this thread.
Nobody even mentioned bonds until you brought them up.
Although your obvious red herring argument is obvious, I will address it anyway.
If either game assaulted players with a pop-up ad pushing bonds as a way to celebrate mental health awareness, I would also find that inappropriate. It's still MTX. If a player is addicted to buying bonds to the point where it becomes a problem, then no it is not ok. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
27-May-2023 09:52:11
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