I was in 1st/2nd grade grade when the big Pokémon boom of the late 90s-early 00s happened. It was HUGE. Every kid was into it and we’d watch the show and play pretend and collect the cards and bring our game boys to school to trade Pokémon during recess. I was lucky to have supportive parents, but I remember how teachers and other adults would scoff and say how tired they were of Pokémon, how annoying and juvenile it was and how they couldn’t wait for us to “get over it already”. I might have been young, but I still remember how much these kinds of comments bummed me out. Why in the world are we being mean to little kids who like Fortnite
Why are you comparing pokemon to fortnite???
Because… Fortnite is very popular amongst children at the moment? And there are adults who dismiss it in the same way other adults did when Pokémon was big, calling it stupid, saying the dances are annoying, how much they can’t wait for the “fad to be over”, etc. It’s pretty much the same scenario.
Fortnite has a lootbox system that is glorified gambling, and can cause patterns of addiction in even adult minds, and that is in fact its intended goal in order for the game to make money from microtransactions. That’s how all games with lootboxes function. That’s how they draw in their customer base and squeeze more money out of them.
Like, I don’t judge kids who enjoy Fortnite. My little cousin plays Fortnite.
But last week, my little cousin also stole his mother’s credit card and spent about a month’s salary on microtransactions without his parents’ knowledge.
Modern gaming has become vile and predatory in ways that we didn’t have to deal with as children.
And we shouldn’t be mean to children about this, but we should definitely be coming down on these companies like a pile of fucking bricks.
Delicious.
Finally, some PROPER FORTNITE CRITICISM
Take it from a whale, this shit’s bad
I knew a kid who stole from his mom’s purse and went out and bought packs of pokemon trading cards
It was a frequent thing of kids spending their entire allowances on card packs in the hopes of getting Charizard or one of the other rare cards
Parents should keep a close eye on what their kids are playing and give them a stern talk about responsible consumer habits.
Honestly, if you’re letting your kid play Fortnite, what happens because of it is on you as a parent.
Exact same thing that comes up when people start complaining that kids are playing violent video games and that they should to be banned or restricted
Kids can’t just walk into a store put down $60 for the newest Call of Duty game and play on a $300 console on their own
Anyone that says that they have no idea what their kids are playing is just throwing money at their kids and not raising them
I grew up playing freaking NES games from the Christian bookstore until I was old enough to learn how to bargain with my Sunday school teacher of a mom on why this game was okay to play around my little brothers
I had to debate with her on what evolution meant in the Pokemon world and ended up coming up with a way that would make her believe in evolution from a creationist standpoint
If I broke down and started whining that would just get that object banned from any further discussion
Nowadays I see kids in stores just grabbing games off shelves and the parents are zombies with their credit cards buying them any game they get handed
And I’ve been seeing this shit for years
When Gears of War 2 came out, I saw a mom buying a copy for her 10 year old and the guy behind the counter stopped her and asked if she knew this game wasn’t suitable for minors and she just got all flabbergasted “they have games for adults only?”
“they have games for adults only?”
And the kid was all “but you bought me the 1st one”
Be a parent to your kids and watch them when they play video games and we wouldn’t have these problems!
Kids wouldn’t be playing violent video games
Kids wouldn’t be buying loot boxes
Kids wouldn’t be online talking to strangers, learning swear words, and wouldn’t be sending or receiving death threats
Adults wouldn’t be trying to restrict freedom of the consumer market in the name of the kids
….. sorry for the rant but this irks me
The videos of kids stealing their parent’s credit cards to buy V-bucks in fortnite is a concern to me but that’s a separate issue then just “fortnite popular must be bad”
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