Belgium rules that loot boxes are gambling - wants them banned in Europe

It wouldn't even be a problem if it used an in-game currency and there was no way to "buy" them. Again though this removes revenue for companies that will be made back in other ways.

I would much rather just pay an extra tenner for a game than go through all the DLC/microtransaction nonsense anyway.
 
Armageus said:
Isn't that exactly why Battlefront 2 dropped paid map packs - because they had an alternate revenue stream to subsidize any additional development - the fact that it backfired spectacularly is another matter.

It potentially could be the end of the world - games like CS Go have an entire real money economy built on a Random Number Generator, that collapses as soon as you remove the RNG from loot crates

So what do you suggest, just moving all in game "items" etc to the store with set prices? How does that help the Pay to Win argument?

Not sure how cosmetic items are an advantage?
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I dislike the way you decided my reply wasn't good enough by new standards. So you're bashing me for not giving you a reply to things you never said til now.

A court couldn't care less about how balanced a game is. It's about companies encouraging players to pay for dice rolls in a game.

Cosmetics, or advantages is the same thing, a baited prize behind the RNG.

And no, I'm not shedding a tear for CSGO's horrific gambling scene if it gets flushed.
 
I think the only people that like loot boxes are actually gambling addicts but haven't realized it.

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Lucky it will not apply to the UK come March 2019....
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If the EU bans it, it will very likely apply to everyone. Otherwise they would have to be producing 2 versions of the game and running 2 lots of server clusters. It would cost to much.

But for an FPS game like this they shouldn't exist. The genre has been ruined by sillyness that removes the skill requirement from it. For a real competitive FPS you have to go right back to games like UT2004 :/
 
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Nasher said:
I think the only people that like loot boxes are actually gambling addicts but haven't realized it.



If the EU bans it, it will very likely apply to everyone. Otherwise they would have to be producing 2 versions of the game and running 2 lots of server clusters. It would cost to much.

But for an FPS game like this they shouldn't exist. The genre has been ruined by sillyness that removes the skill requirement from it. For a real competitive FPS you have to go right back to games like UT2004 :/
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Vanilla TF2 was good for competitiveness, now it's a mess with so many weapons though.
 
Hotwired said:
I dislike the way you decided my reply wasn't good enough by new standards. So you're bashing me for not giving you a reply to things you never said til now.
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Not sure how I am bashing you?

Nasher said:
I think the only people that like loot boxes are actually gambling addicts but haven't realized it.
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By that account, everyone against loot boxes must be recovering addicts, who haven't the will power to refrain from buying.
 
It should be extremely popular for politicians to bandwagon.

Games are targeted primarily at young people and gambling is strictly regulated because of the many negative things it can cause, including preying on those with little self control (which is the point of enforcing protection with law).

Just need to wait for politicians to get with the news, pick it up, bash the whole thing for several months solid and get a free "I did something useful" badge as the world agrees and files in-game gambling for cash as any other form of gambling and thus subject to massive scrutiny and control.

(at which point all mainstream companies drop it like a turd, comply with whatever gets enforced and count their ill gotten gains)
 
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Malevolence said:
Loot crates should be for nothing more than cosmetic items. Lets get back to the good old days of gaming when you actually had to put the hours in and work at it to progress.
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damn straight. especially for multiplayer games.

hell even leveled equipment drops ruin fun, remember going back to cod3 after the release of cod4 because instead of getting owned by that one guy in the lobby who was full prestige and had unlocked all the guns you just had pre-set classes, with only 1 choice of weapon for the class, and it was great.
 
Loots crates & all DLC should be banned its just a shady way to take more money by greedy devs & publishers. They want to get their money back on the dev time then make something actually worth buying then the problem solves itself & watch the money come flying in....but that is the big issue so few modern games are actually worth your money!
 
AWPC said:
Loots crates & all DLC should be banned its just a shady way to take more money by greedy devs & publishers. They want to get their money back on the dev time then make something actually worth buying then the problem solves itself & watch the money come flying in....but that is the big issue so few modern games are actually worth your money!
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dunno about all dlc, day 1 dlc sure, but a proper fully fleshed out addition put out months or years after release isn't so bad, like the dawnguard/dragonborn dlc for skyrim, or the various full dlc options for borderlands (go on, play tiny tina's assault on dragon keep and tell me all dlc is bad)
 
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