Jeffrey Epstein pushed for COD Microtransactions

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    1. BestRedditUsername9 on

      From the article:

      In newly uncovered correspondence between Epstein, futurist Pablos Holman, and former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, taken from the over three million Epstein Files that were released on Friday, conversations were had about “indoctrinating kids into an economy” through in-game cosmetics.

      “X prize is a good idea but key is real world rewards,” Kotick said in an email to Epstein. “Learn to read: [earn] cell phone minutes, iPhone credits, virtual items in games.”

      I’m all for indoctrinating kids into an economy. You gotta love how his [example] for ‘real world events’ is ‘virtual items in games’—Pablos.

    2. Say what you will about Epstein, but at least he didn’t confine himself to one type of pure evil. That repugnant mofo diversified.

    3. seventysixgamer on

      Lmao, this guy might as well be satan incarnate. This is probably very low on his scale of crimes, but I would never have expected he was perhaps part of the reason why this shitty form of monetisation is so ubiquitous lol.

    4. Automatic_Goal_5563 on

      No he didn’t at all the headline is such clickbait nonsense and posting things like this that aren’t true only makes the waters more murky of what’s true and not.

    5. Jesus fuck man. I don’t think people realize how nefarious this is. They definitely pushed for this alongside legalizing online gambling to prepare kids to gamble and to get into serious debt. They have stated before they go after poor children, so this would increase the number of kids in poverty and thus their target demographic for trafficking.

    6. I imagine him emailing EA and Maxis to patch The Sims games to allow adults to flirt with minors.