Serious question to those who consider randomness => gambling: How are lootboxes different from trading card games like Magic or YoGiOh? Or from Panini stickers? Shouldn’t those be banned too under such rules? http://www.pcgamer.com/belgium-says-loot-boxes-are-gambling-wants-them-banned-in-europe/ …
For me the downside is potential increased regulation over game mechanics in the future. (showing % is a tiny tiny & reasonable step of course). My thought is that people are smart, and that this loot box fad will probably tone down a lot naturally.
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In the same way that if that violence / wow addiction hysteria had of led to regulation... well we don't know what damage that would have done. So I'm naturally a little suspicious of where those things could go.
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Agree on that as well. Mob mentality is a real problem; I think the outrage was almost as big about DLC a few years back (might have been worse if YouTube angermongers had existed), and it killed the XBox One X DRM scheme which left us with untradable/unsellable digital games...
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Yeah... When I hear Jim talk about the rising cost of game development being a myth... There are a lot of armchair producers out there who have no idea what they are talking about. The introspection within YT was good. I was a total fucking moron with my WoD coverage.
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