This is an important question, because the kid doesn't own a credit card to pay for their gacha game purchases. It's the parent's card that authorizes the purchases.
What kind of controls would you like on these applications? Should everyone have to provide photoid and a running camera feed to prove that they're 18+ and it's actually them playing and not their kid? Pretty much every scenario to stop kids from playing, that isn't extremely invasive, is going to be weaker than a credit card requirement. And apparently a credit card requirement isn't a barrier.
A parent who permits their young kid to get regularly drunk may get a visit from CPS.
If you make tobacco products in child-friendly forms, you get in trouble. Gacha games are gambling targeted directly at children; in any other context they’d be clearly and obviously forbidden.
We regulate these things a lot, and fairly effectively.
>Gacha games are gambling targeted directly at children
And how do you prove this? Just think logically about this - who's going to have more money to whale: an adult or somebody that has to beg money from an adult?
>If you make tobacco products in child-friendly forms, you get in trouble
Yes, but you also get in trouble when you make any tobacco products as evidenced by the numerous bans of tobacco. You can't even have flavored smokes anymore despite them having been available for decades. Governments can basically propose any policy regarding tobacco and people would happily agree with it due to decades of public marketing campaigns (on kids btw).
>We regulate these things a lot, and fairly effectively.
No we don't. That CPS comment shows exactly the point - it's the parent that gets in trouble. That's not what people against gacha games are trying to do, they're trying to get the company in trouble and not the person actually doing the poor parenting.
Anything that requires a credit card to purchase needs authorization from a parent.
