[nextmove]

Yes these companies use tricks to get you addicted to using their low quality products for as long as possible and spending as much as possible.

But people fail to realize that the bigger issue resides in society. These people are escaping reality to virtual spaces where they feel they have power or have value.

Just look around you and you'll see what these people are escaping from. Churches at every corner spewing out lies and hatred. Propaganda spewed out by governments on the television. etc.

These people are searching for a safe space away from the cancer that is society. Prove me wrong.

[aodonnell2536]

Churches spewing lies and hatred?

When’s the last time you’ve been to a sermon? For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

As for ‘spewing lies’, I suppose you can argue that, but I can assure you the pastor doesn’t believe he is lying. Religion is grounded in faith for a reason

[kibwen]

> For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Denying that there's a problem is one of the reasons that people are being turned off from the church entirely. Yes, plenty of churches have resisted the tide of hatred and embraced inclusivity, and I commend them. But when I accompanied my father to church while visiting him, I was dismayed to find that the new pastor had laced the sermon with anti-gay fearmongering. That's not coming from nowhere, and it is abetted by people who want to believe that there is nothing amiss.

[blacksmithgu]

People would turn to games and other forms of escapism even if the governments were stable and honest and the churches preached only love and acceptance. Reality cannot compete with the sense of progress, exoticness, and control that games offer.