Lootboxes and Gambling

Is it time for games like Overwatch, Call of Duty and mobile "gacha" games like Fire Emblem Heroes to be regulated and treated like gambling?

Don't ever buy them.

Problem solved.

the prizes have no cash value in overwatch, so no
idk about the others

fucking OW jewboxes are bullshit fdajfdkjfdlka

you mean like allowing trading and having a marketplace like CS:GO? Fuck no

making all the currency only accessible via crates means you have to go through the gambling sensation. it slowly transforms people who just want to buy skins into gamblers.

Didn't Japanese gacha devs end up having to make some concessions to avoid being branded as gambling because of how HONTO YEN they've been bring in on being gambling slot machines? Stepping on the fucking yakuza-run pachinko parlour toes.

If you can spend real world money to obtain the boxes directly or indirectly, then yes. If they are only obtainable via in-game means then no issue.

>Force "gacha" games like Fire Emblem Heroes, etc to be rated as 18+ only due to it's pseudo gambling
>Also force them to give good payouts in certain situations ie: If you summon five heroes with robs, you're entitled to at least one 5 star character
>Recall games like Overwatch and have them rated 18+ only
>Have to have the win rates clearly stated and the ability to buy them with real money removed

You can buy lootboxes with real money.

So it's not at all gambling and your assumptions are as weak as wet paper.

why else would there not be an option to directly buy the skinbux?

>Regulate lootbox and have games that feature systems similar to it rated as Adults Only
>Developers have to stop doing them
>They go back to DLC
>That fails because casuals don't want to pay for them anymore
>Splits online communities too, resulting in less players
>AAA developers fuck off when they realize they can't nickle and dime consumers anymore

they won't fuck off, they'll just let you buy coins for real money instead
the lootbox system is better for the devs because its random nature means you're probably not getting the thing you want unless you buy 20 boxes, plus it's addictive as already mentioned. It's the best method for extracting money from your players, but it's far from the only one

I don't really care about lootboxes, but make like China and list the exact percentages for what's inside.

Which is why it needs to be regulated or banned. It's essentially gambling and ruins the integrity of games. Games with these features should be rated Adults Only as a punishment.

I completely agree.
Somewhat related, has that court case against valve for the CSGO gambling finished up?

Not that I'm aware of. I hope they're charged for that debacle though. That was completely unacceptable and wrong.

Valve getting buttfucked is almost certainly the reason ow doesn't have trading yet. Hopefully the regulators come down hard on lootbox shit after this court case

>wanting games to be "regulated"

How do you fucks wipe your own ass with some bullshit government law telling you how to do it.

Honestly this all I ever want from my chance shit

>wanting games to be "regulated"
No, only games like Overwatch that promote gambling. If they don't feature randomized lootboxes that can be purchased with real money, then there isn't a problem and they won't need regulation.

You can't trust stupid people not to be stupid. But you can make scamming them illegal.

Just saying 'fuck everyone who is stupid enough to be scammed' on account of societal responsibility.

You can actually make money from gambling so those "games" are not gambling.

Absolutely. Worst part is how these companies acknowledge that a large portion of their profits comes from underage people overspending on their parents credit cards.

awww you're butt hurt you have shitty luck, arent you?

that is the parents' fault for giving their kid's their card information

It's the parents responsibility to stop their kids from getting addicted to gambling in videogames

Earning lootboxes in OW is really easy. Only a few select few holiday skins are worth it. Paying for them just seems silly.

>People made a lot of photoshopped images of Kotick with devil horns
>Internet shits on him and calls him a shit person
>His dating life literately takes a hit from it because his dates would Google him and see his reputation

lol

doesn't matter when you're that rich, baybee

They have cash value in real life though probably not enough to need regulation

Unless they open up and let you trade skins to other players, it will never be gambling.

Just a reminder someone paid $10,000 US for a random Ashes of A'lar drop back in the day

I guess. It was a logical progression for video games. This shit is just business and psychology at work. It would grind my gears alot less if duplicates weren't a factor, but they're extremely common even for rare's. It's like 100 boxes to get all of a seasonal events content. I don't have the answer OP it's an extremely jewish model but it's probably here to stay.

>How do you fucks wipe your own ass with some bullshit government law telling you how to do it.
did you know that you need FDA approval to manufacture and sell toilet paper?

sanitary products meeting government approved cleanliness standards is a pretty swell idea in my book

you can go live in a poor country if you want

No.

Let's take a pack of trading cards for example. You pay about $3 for a number of cards whose resale value on the market may be in total 75ยข or may be in total over $100. But you are not gambling as you're getting exactly what you payed for, which is a certain number of cards.

Of course it is

There will be a valentine's day event next
Then an easter one
And probably a midsummer one after that

kaplan already said there was no valentine's day event

Some guy streamed himself blowing $6000 to pull the 2016 Zodiac character in Granblue Fantasy.

It made Cygames put in the rates for drawing characters and safeguards so you can actually get what you want within spending a certain amount.

Pokemon cards were legalized child gambling. I blew a few hundred of my parents money to try to score big.

>T-TRUMP'S GONNA TAKE ON WALL STREET AND FIGHT FOR ME, THE WORKING CLASS WHITE MALE!
>proceeds to deregulate stock market, housing market, and decrease taxes on the rich
>THANK YOU BASED TRUMP FOR DEREGULATING THE STOCK MARKETS AND HOUSING MARKETS!
>*guzzles bourgeois cum*
>T-TRUMP! PLEASE REGULATE THE MEANINGLESS GAMING VIRTUAL ITEM MARKETS! THIS SHIT IS OUT OF HAND!
>*continues to guzzle the cum of the bourgeoisie*

someone sounds upset.

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J U S T

What was the point of this post?

5 years later and it's somehow gotten worse. I loath the day the Mannconomy update came out.

As long as the "prizes" have no monetary value then it's not gambling. Skins are purely cosmetic, have no effect on gameplay, cannot be directly bought, sold or traded in real life, and can be acquired for free by simply playing the game, therefore they have zero real-world value. If retards want to be retards then that's their problem.

You can sell the account

Not legally.

It's not illegal either. You just have to keep news of the transaction off Blizzard's games so they don't ban the account