Video games industry forms a coalition to fight the lootcrate gambling crisis
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fantaskarsef
rl66
Silva
I hope EA and others that use loot boxes are raped, hard!
I stopped buying AAA games at full price with Battlefield 2 and although I have Battlefield 3, I didn't pay even 1/5 of the original cost.
Frack DLC, loot boxes and whatever. I want to buy the full game at launch.
XP-200
"self-regulation within game companies" Hahahahahahahahahaha
Oh wait, there were being serious. lol
JamesSneed
schmidtbag
As much as I hate pay-to-win, lootboxes, and DLC for games that should have come with it, I don't think there needs to be a coalition or any legal action taken. If you're dumb enough to buy into these games and feel ripped off by them, that's your problem that you willingly put yourself into; it is not the publisher's problem. There are plenty of great games out there that don't pull this crap.
Unlike casino gambling, the money spent in these games isn't anywhere near as addictive. You pay for the content once and you get a novelty. You know exactly what you're getting, and it isn't very rewarding because of this. Because the "reward" leaves no surprises, and, because novelties wear off, the addiction is relatively minimal. Also unlike casino gambling, there is a finite amount of money you can spend in [most of] these games. It's still a ridiculously high amount of money, but you probably aren't going to go bankrupt over it.
I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but the only people who really get addicted to spending money in these games are those who are going to end up as drug addicts, alcoholics, or bankrupt, because they have no self-discipline and are too easily influenced by their desires, peer pressure, and pop-culture. When it comes to casino gamblers, that taps into a much deeper and subconcious part of the brain that can affect most people, and for that reason I am very much in favor of legally restricting such forms of gambling.
Denial
Darkiee
I get the idea of loot boxes, i don´t buy them, i´m not a friend of rng.
If i want something, i´ll buy it directly, if it´s not available from direct buy, you can keep it.
Neo Cyrus
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RealNC
How about a "coalition" to fight blatant tax evasion by EA, Ubisoft, Activision, WB, ...
"Games are too expensive to make so we have to put 'micro' transactions and loot boxes in the games."
Then they evade taxes like no tomorrow, spit out the same "too expensive to make" game every year that makes them billions and billions of dollars every single time. The poor bastards live in famine.
Or rather, how about a coalition against the travesty that is modern "AAA" game publishing.
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Kaerar
Looks like this faux lobby group was setup by a self-professed 17yr old internet troll. Thinks of himself as an entrepreneur according the digging done by Forbes.