Is Candy Crush Turning Your Kid Into A Gambler?
on January 13 2014 1:13 PM
“Candy Crush Saga” has become the most popular Facebook game in terms of daily active users, surpassing Zynga’s top titles like “FarmVille 2,” “Words with Friends,” and “Texas HoldEm Poker.” King.com
The rules of "Candy Crush Saga" are pretty easy: match the candies on the game board to make them disappear, and move up to the next level.
It’s simple enough, but for children playing the game, the long-term outcome could be more complicated. A professor from the United Kingdom says that games played on social networks can be addicting and possibly lead to bad habits later in life.
“It’s a bit of the old drug-dealing analogy of giving a bit for free and hooking them in,” Professor Mark Griffiths, director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, told the Times Educational Supplement.
“Games like Candy Crush have a 'moreishness' quality, a bit like chocolate. You say you’ll just have one chunk and you end up having a whole lot,” he said
In an earlier report published in the journal Education and Health, he noted that there was a “striking” similarity between social gamers -- those play games on Facebook -- and people using a slot machine.
“I and some of my colleagues have argued previously that many social games played on social networking sites have gambling-like elements – even if no money is involved,” he wrote in the report.
“On first look, playing games like Farmville, may not seem to have much connection to activities like gambling but the psychology behind such activities are very similar,” he wrote.
To be sure, King focuses their marketing at a very different audience. They have publicly stated that their target demographic is women between the ages of 35-50, and most of their players are over the age of 24 years old. Many players even complete the games without making any payments at all.
Candy Crush is already the most-popular game on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). Although King.com Ltd., the company that owns Candy Crush, doesn't release financial details, Think Gaming estimates that the game attracts more than six million users every day and generates daily revenue of nearly $946,788.
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Posted by arif Mdon January 13, 2014
Facebook users attention to this report! Do you have a big problem.
Smart phones and tablet computers, as well as in Facebook can be played for free on the Candy Crush until now has been downloaded 500 million times all over the world.But I have a big problem .
England ’in-game researchers, Candy Crush similar online games kids gambling addiction, it warns that found. Kona on the report prepared money even when not this type of games, children and young people in the long run cause great problems could be said.
British Times newspaper how speaking in the UK Nottingham Trent University’s International Gaming Research Center President Mark Griffiths “on the Internet without using money gambling like playing games gambling addiction, the first step towards visible. This type of game winning people ‘or money to oynasaydı’ I begin to think,” he said .Griffiths, which can be played for free on the internet poker, bingo and roulette games like Candy Crush, as well as seemingly innocuous while also claims that fall into this category, said:
“Candy Crush chocolate can be compared. A box of chocolate when you pick up a piece of food I you say, but all the boxes before the end you can not stop. Candy Crush playing 15 minutes I’ll play you say, but 4.5 hours beginning of the game can not afford.”
These types of free games also marketed as drugs Griffiths said, “Drug dealers are also dependent on them giving away free stuff to the victims made a little before,” he added.Researchers at the interface of the children, especially the animated characters may be of interest to the game, when you say that the great danger “These types of games to be designed to attract the children concerned should be prevented,” he said.
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