Only if you teach them. My son is playing casual games on Steam and emulated games.

While my son's friends were talking about new Call of Duty/Fortnite updates. And they're like 8yos.

You could argue the other way around - growing up with decent and non-predatory practices makes you less tolerant of when companies try to extort you because you already know what "good" looks like.

I'm sure the corpos would love nothing more than kids getting exposed to predatory practices from a young age so they grow up feeling those things are acceptable and normal.

Most kids aren't discerning about those kinds of things.

The problem is that kids dont make or have money. Its like burning their hand the first time, they need to attempt to pay for their own lives fully at least once to really understand it. I think its fair to restrict these types of things to mature rated games as a general rule.

yeah the problem is this doesn't line up with the horror stories I've personally witnessed. Sudden, massive credit card charges. The problem can occur when kids aren't spending their own money, they're using their parents', some way some how.

Regardless, kids are already surrounded by ads in every corner of life trying to convince them they need XYZ in exchange for money. I'd rather work to make the kid's environment less consumerist, to give them a vision of how life could be.

My kids didn't see an ad connected to videos until the youngest was about 7 (outside of a movie theater, at least). When they first saw them, they were flabbergasted about what they were or why people would just sit there watching them, and absolutely refuse to put up with them. I'd say they are better off seeing how things could be, so when they see how things are now they recognize how utter shit it is.

Can you elaborate a bit more on that? Most of the games with dlc or microtransaction stuff that I play have it all verified with some sort of online system (steam, mostly). What games are you hacking, and how?