Because some people aren’t idiots, they are gamblers with a real addiction. If you had a gambling addiction today or were part of a vulnerable group with no other outlets this game would bleed them dry and leave them with nothing of value they can sell later when they hit rock bottom. It’s not morons we care about, it’s addicts.
The issue is the potential age of the potential audience. Some people are too young to understand they are gambling money that has fixed value on a CHANCE to win big without understanding the ODDS of winning big, and the marketing team behind this are counting on that. It’s predatory behavior on people too inexperienced to know they are being scammed as the item they get has no real monetary value.
In this article birds hate fish for living in water. SM2 is fun but derivative of a format that they just used versus the most dynamic storytelling in a video game since Skyrim came out. Be mad, but the comparison is ridiculous