Absolutely, and the kids that dont want to smoke can just not buy them!!
Theres no such thing as ethics in business where you need to comply with the rules regulated by the government to prevent abusing its customers through unsavory means. Its the wild west!
Nice simpsons ref btw
People are arguing "just don't buy them", but here's the thing: why would anyone *want* to buy them? What is the added gameplay that you enjoy by spending money and not getting what you want? How is this improving your (or anyone's) experience? How is this game design anything but a transparent effort to overcharge people for stuff they wouldn't buy if the average price were the up-front price? More explicitly, an effort to overcharge people for stuff to an extent that would get them laughed out of business, if the average price were the upfront price!
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Companies are people, so of course they should be allowed to sell to whomever they want. To say that the government should stop them from abusing customers, and exploiting people with gambling tendencies and children, is clearly infringing on their rights and pure communism. All hail the godly bottom line, and down with basic human decency!
Indeed. Everyone knows that rich people love nothing more than making their hard working employees benefit, and they all despise just hoarding the money. The whole "rich gets richer" is just jealous people not knowing how truly great rampant unregulated capitalism is.
EA would never write off a country as big as germany, they would rather get their team of lawyers in over a weekend to think up a strategy like
"Its technically not gambling because you receive an item, even if that item is a piece of shit and not the skin the person was after, thank you sir"
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Pyramid schemes always go to the bottom half right? Businesses are our friends. I know this because ive been a loyal customer with them for years.
You may check this old thread then:
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...onetization-AI
https://imgur.com/a/rhFuj
Its worse if it gets implented.
Don't sweat the details!!!
Pretty sure that was mostly fake or something similar.
If they add any sort of a spam in an AA game there will be backlash.
I think if actually banning lootboxes they will simply sell the items either way but just with a price of inflated price and whoever wants to buy it, buys it.
Or maybe the same way Dota did it for awhile.
"This chest contains 15 skins, you will get a skin only once" aka buy 15 chests for all skins and be done with it.
Lately they started adding "Rare drops and ultra rare drops" which i believe will disappear with the lootbox law either way.
And if this doesnt happen we will probably either have games costing more cause they can use that excuse now.
Or some sort of subscription as WoW has or PSN etc etc to "cover the costs.
lets just hope that's where it stops.
ban loot boxes, that's good. but in doing so, you're giving the government an in. once they get in, they could want to regulate more things in gaming, and that will be bad.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Okay, so you're quickly already making up my argument for me? Never said it didn't happen for the record, said it's a small amount of people that do it.
Are we going to ban lotteries just because there's gambling addictions? I mean, that's what this is calling for, a flat out ban.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
What difference does it make if its the few getting exploited or many? The amount of victims shouldnt matter.
Kids cant buy lotto tickets, thanks for proving my point
"Oklahoma 18 or 21 (depends on the casino)
Oregon 18 for bingo 21 for casinos
Pennsylvania 18 for pari-mutuel 21 for casinos
South Dakota 18 for bingo at Indian casinos 21 for casinos"
normally 18+
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Not like anything changes, all they do is sell a SMALL amount of currency and you get a free bonus lootbox. Then they aren't "selling" lootboxes but they never give you enough currency to really do anything with.
It's a predatory business model that I would not weep to see being gone.
Cosmetic only, to a lesser degree, but still in the same package.