OW has, and it has given me free updates on a very regular basis. All of which would not have been possible if we did not have lootboxes.
Now I don't give a shit about lootboxes or cosmetic shit and if they put something else in like skins for sale thats fine.
I am just afraid I have to start forking out 30 euro for some dlc just because some people can't control them selfs on lootboxes and start craeting a fuzz.
Fun story: Some european countries actually consider mtg some form of gambling. Thats why for example in germany and austria it is not allowed to give out price money for tournaments and in austria there even was a case where a gp was made 18+.
The small difference in many card games is that you actually play with the cards you get from a pack. The format is called limited or draft in mtg and officially booster packs are used to play this format. All other formats exists so a player can still use the cards he got from playing limited. I hope you can see the difference here, because for that purpose a pack of cards is considered game material that you need to play the game.
No idea how Hearthstone handels this tbh.
But also fun fact: Do you know this collectible stickers for football players etc from companies like Panini?'Technically those are closer to lootboxes and therefore closer to gambling than mtg.
But all in all even mtg is in a grey zone, yes. And believe me, I worked in that industrie, this was a fact we always had to be aware of when organizing tournaments in different cities and locations. And no, I did not work for Wizards directly.
Nope Overwatch released May 24, 2016. It has only been out almost 2 years. So even overwatch hasn't given you 2 years of gameplay.
Also you said none of those games implying your talking about the ones @dope_danny was talking about. So nether the games he listed or Overwatch has been out 2 years.
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The money they made from the box sell of Overwatch.
How has Titanfall 2 been getting free updates/content without using MT's......
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Well, lootboxes are a form of gambling, right?
Inb4 gaming companies will just sell a crap thing for the same price and "give" lootboxes as bonuses.
looks like hawaii has also weighed in as well:
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i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
I am from the EU as well.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I know it's not only Blizzard, I know Blizzard isn't even bad compared to many other companies. I think that countries and the EU looking into the whole lootbox system is an exceptionally good thing for gaming as a whole.
I sort of despise the $60 price tag being the standard. Some AAA games are worth far less, and others are worth far more. I would have paid $100 for Witcher 3 without expansions and paid more for those. Other games are worth $20 at best. This is what they will do though, and they will market the game well, build the hype, and people will pay outrageous amounts for a short and clunky game with no replay value. I'd prefer that system to the loot box one any day.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
No , it also applies to :
EU:
Netherlands : Investigating lootboxes/gambling
France : Thinking about doing the same.
Non EU:
Hawaii: Spoke about EA’s ‘predatory’ practices.
It could spread, it could not, but it's not strictly Belgium at all, they are just the first to potentially go beyond the investigating phase. (mixed reports make it seem they haven't decided fully yet)
In the end it can still take weeks/months, nothing is really official yet.
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If you think about it any kind of loot dropping is gamboling because of the rng, so there may come a day when certain places don't allow game bosses to drop loot.
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Who cares even if it is gambling? Why does Europe hate freedom?