sportsbook apps have turned into bloody arcades haven't they

[Timmy]

that's actually a bit unsettling when you spell it out like that. they want you there every day regardless of whether you have a bet you want to make. i've always treated betting as something you do when there's a game you care about. if the product is designed to get me in on random tuesdays through a spin wheel that's a meaningfully different thing

you could also just not open it on random tuesdays genuinely don't know why this is a design ethics problem and not just an app you choose not to use

 

[chapman]

you could also just not open it on random tuesdays genuinely don't know why this is a design ethics problem and not just an app you choose not to use

tell that to someone on a bad run who opens it for the mission and ends up chucking a tenner on three 3pm games they've got no real view on. it accumulates mate. not for everyone but for some it does and those are exactly the people these features are designed around if we're being honest
anyway @geordiecolin you backing the toon sunday or have you quietly bottled it

 

[geordiecolin]

have i ever in my life. no
gordon to assist and 2+ goals, 9/2. arsenal's last three home games have been genuinely nervy if you actually watch them start to finish rather than just looking at the result. toon are quick up top when they get going and that's exactly what arsenal have been struggling with at home

 

[geordiecolin]

You and your eternal bet builders
Eze to score and newcastle to lose at 14/1, that's my counter suggestion
I've got Haaland anytime for the city wednesday game. Man hasn't scored in five which apparently means he's "due" according to every single newspaper that has ever been printed

@TheAddict your haaland pick for wednesday looks interesting actually. reckon he's overdue

 

[slotking]

you could also just not open it on random tuesdays genuinely don't know why this is a design ethics problem and not just an app you choose not to use

that's an individual choice argument, not a design ethics argument. operators build these features knowing the full distribution of their user base. "some people can resist it" isn't a defense when the mechanism is deliberately engineered around the segment that can't. both things can be true simultaneously - most people make fine choices and operators specifically build products that exploit the limits of self-regulation