Every major mobile game company has psychologists on hand to design mobile experiences that are more addictive than what would be allowed in American casinos.

Machine learning and adaptive gameplay ensures that players are always on the verge of the next dopamine hit, and when the time is right, a pay to win screen is shoved in their face.

People spend hundreds of dollars on mobile experiences that they actively do not enjoy, it is behavioral manipulation of the worst sort.

We need more regulation. For starters, gacha game mechanics should be banned. After that, adaptive algorithms should be looked into. It is really easy for a ML algorithm to find someone who is depressed and start feeding them more and more depressing content, ensuring engagement. Same goes for extremism of any type, or really any extreme ends of the human psychological spectrum, except, and this may be a sad statement on the nature of humanity, of positive emotions, the activation which do not create long term engagement.