05-29-2012, 09:20 PM
I'm pretty stingy with my *real world* money. I don't go to any of our readily available *real world* casinos either. It probably will be a problem for some players, as is the managing of self control on many other aspects of personal choice. But, I think you are correct in that they are trying to edge into the *real* cash cow of collecting "house" money from incremental transactions. I need to weigh and usually eschew the purchase of the growing gobs of additional content in many online games now(e.g. DDO), for me (and my children). The psychological feeder bar in slot machines is not that much different from those in the modern MMOG.