I have been silent enough

I have been silent enough

someone please fucking tell me why is this loot crate cancer so fucking prevalent among popular games?
it's literally fucking gambling but you actually lose every time

how did this crap even start spreading outside CSGO?

Why isn't everybody angry over such shitty practices?

my brother wasted thirty fucking dollars on this bullshit, those 30 could've gone into ordering a nice hot pizza but NO, he had to spend it on that gay shit just to get a bunch of uniform patterns that he didn't even intend to get

Bottom feeders love it and that's about it.

>why is this loot crate cancer so fucking prevalent
Because it makes a lot of money for basically no effort? Doesn't matter if a few people are angry if thousands of kids empty their parents bank account on this shit.

Devs like it because it makes them shitloads of money for next to no effort.
Retarded consumers like it because it's like gambling and it fucks with their brains.

>im mad at something that has no effect on gameplay

ok user

>why is this loot crate cancer so fucking prevalent among popular games?

>it's literally fucking gambling

Well there you go

Because there are large criminal groups that jumped on this sort of gambling

I really don't get how it's anything like gambling unless you can sell the skins after. I know some games you can sell skins, then it's basically a slot machine, but in games like overwatch where the skins are worth nothing it's not even remotely comparable to gambling.

Opening boxes gives people a rush

Screencapped for backup to make an animation of Pepe fighting over 30 neetbux for pizza with his retarded brother.

Dude, people love gambling it's wired into the human psyche.

>how did this crap even start spreading outside CSGO?

Well it has been around for a long, long time. It's only within the last few years that western publishers have caught onto it but Valve absolutely accelerated the speed of it spreading by hiring an economist to work out how to best tweak things for profit.

Dota2 actively monitors the time you spend looking at items in the store, how long your mouse hovers over items reading descriptions/price/other info as well as logging how long you've kept the item in your basket before deciding to buy it or not.

tl;dr: loot boxes make studios A LOT of money for very little investment due to manipulating people in various ways.

>Dota2 actively monitors the time you spend looking at items in the store, how long your mouse hovers over items reading descriptions/price/other info as well as logging how long you've kept the item in your basket before deciding to buy it or not.
really?

Can someone please explain this. I really don't get how some of these are gambling.

>buy a crate
>you get a bunch of random garbage tier shit no one wants
>or you get lucky and you get a legendary skin or gun or whatever the fuck

>maybe I'll get what I want if I buy another crate!

I don't see the problem with that. The thrill of thinking you might be able to win is just as good, if not better than, actually winning. You guys just need to lighten up.

You'll be able to find threads about on the dota2 subreddit but someone noticed that it was tracking that information in the console. It's nothing new though since various online stores do the same thing and google has been incorporating things like this for a decade now. Facebook can accurately build an account for you and populate it just based off information about you on other websites.

Look up "Facebook shadow accounts".

Game devs/pubs are only now getting into the game of physiologically profiling their consumer base and developing their games and loot boxes around this in order to maximize profits while simultaneously decreasing the amount they're spending on development.

>The thrill of thinking you might be able to win is just as good, if not better than, actually winning.
That's gambling, retard and its bad because its hooking kids and not being upfront about what it is. Gambling laws are a thing for a reason

>The thrill of thinking you might be able to win is just as good, if not better than, actually winning.

That's gambling, dipshit. There's laws and regulations on it for a reason yet in the games industry it goes unregulated and on top of that is often targeted towards children. FIFA Ultimate team is the biggest example of this.

Skinner boxes. You're brother is a retard. Sorry.

That's not the point you braindead monkey. It doesn't matter if you're okay with it.

I told you why it's gambling.

tax for idiots

why no one is angry? well, some are angry. slowly but surely. the silent majority does not want this shit. but it's insanely easy to just lock content behind microtransaction shit and get a few of your graphic designers to make extra skins n shit.

i'm pretty sure 80% of gamers barely ever touched microtransactions. it's the remaining 20% that these "features" are for, and some really seem to splurge. I know a dude who buys himself a new csgo every third month or so, spending between 200 and 1000€.

It's literally a scratchie card with slightly better chance of rewards

The gaming world is run by evil men

>prevalent

what sort of shit are you playing LMAO
only total garbage nigger games have these pieces of shit
go play stalker, doom, some CRPG or whatever else, grow some fucking taste you little cuck boy

>HURR MUH TRIPLE A MODERN PILE OF SHIT HAS LOOT CRATES DURR
fucking kike fucker

There's literally nothing wrong with cosmetic loot crates, if you're stupid enough to buy them with real money then that's your fucking problem.

>digital gambling
Loot crates are just that, also similar to playing the lottery. Only fools do it. I for one like my money to actually buy something, not piss it away on chance.

apparently gambling is fun

The jews really aren't going to stop until we're bled dry of money, aren't they?

>i'm pretty sure 80% of gamers barely ever touched microtransactions

That's very likely not true. GaaS (games as a service) are becoming the front-runner in reasons as to why people are buying games and the perpetual hamster on a wheel ideology of loot boxes is one of those reasons. Even if people aren't spending real money, they're often making the sacrifice of time or other in game options in order to open loot boxes.

Loot boxes alone are now a huge portion of the markets revenue.

>Overwatch is the eighth Activision Blizzard game to generate $1 billion in revenue, according to the publisher’s fiscal Q1 2017 financial statement. And the company says it is the fastest-growing franchise ever from developer Blizzard. It now has 30 million registered players, and a significant number of those play on an active monthly basis. Overwatch’s success has also contributed to 80 percent of Activision Blizzard’s revenues coming from digital channels. That’s $1.386 billion of the publisher’s $1.726 billion total net revenues last quarter.

Overwatch launched may 24th, 2016. What do you think made up those profits for Q1 2017?

I don't understand either.

I understand wanting to be a special snowflake and spending 10 or 20 bucks on an outfit or skin or whatever so you stand out more among the horde of mouthbreathers.

I don't understand spending 10 or 20 bucks for an insignificant chance to get that particular outfit but more likely than not get some total trash no one cares for.

>how did this crap even start spreading outside CSGO?
It makes money. A hell of a lot of money. Other greedy bastards realized they can make a lot of money too.

>Why isn't everybody angry over such shitty practices?
Because the video game consumer base is full of the most easily addicted, poorly informed, uncaring, quick to forgive, quick to forget, corporate cock suckers that think companies are their friends. It's a suit's wet dream. The fact that EA is still in business (see their recent games: Battlefield WWI and Battlefront 2, both with loot crate bullshit) is a testament to how willing consumers are to bend over in support of anti-consumer practices. Just enjoy your $200 collector's editions with day 1 DLC, pre-order bonuses, microtransactions, and loot crates, because it's not going to get any better as long as enough people pay for this shit.

>and a significant number of those play on an active monthly basis
Can't be that significant I they refuse to release actual numbers desu-ne

I think that TF2 implemented the crate system long before CSGO.

I also think that it's fine for a free to play game, but keep that shit out of paid games.

It generated $1 billion in revenue. How many people are actively playing doesn't mean shit to how profitable loot boxes are. Go check out overwatch threads every time a new event starts, you'll see plenty of people dropping $40 to get lootboxes for the new skins.

Back when lootboxes weren't as prevalent the argument would always be "it's only whales buying this stuff and it funds the game for me so who cares" but it has now seeped its way into the core design of fully priced games and a larger and larger playerbase are consuming lootboxes than ever before.

At least these days self publishing is easier than ever before and crowd funding has resulted in excellent games. It's easy to be doom and gloom when it comes to the games industry but there's plenty of very skilled and determined developers out there who still want to make traditional products.

>start spreading outside CS:GO
What a newfag.

>I think that TF2 implemented the crate system long before CSGO.

Many korean & chinese MMOs/F2P games implemented it even before TF2. Rather than outright buying some P2W item that was extremely over priced you would have a chance to open a blind box. Obviously the rates on getting those items was fucked and extremely small. Chinese government forces games with loot boxes to show their droprates for this reason.

>Crate opening videos on Youtube are watched by millions

EXPLAIN THIS TO ME I CANNOT COMPREHEND

Kids are stupid. Not so hard to understand.

I used to do some dumb shit but those vids are just ridiculously boring to watch. Literally nothing happens, some retard spends hundreds on pixels and screams or whatever. Holy balls kids have become absolutely braindead.

>people play games
>people then watch let's plays of people playing games
>people literally stream themselves opening crates
>people will soon stream themselves reacting to people streaming themselves opening crates

schadenfreude

I don't give a shit about crates and the games they're in but I do play some mobile games with gacha characters. I really enjoy seeing other people summon characters and receiving nothing but shit.

The same reason why "epic fail" videos get million of views.

I wouldn't know i don't play games like these, i don't look at them. Doesn't it feel like this ?
You are playing and a little goblin next to you is poking your side going "buy this hey, buy this. Buy it buy it" i wasn't going to i would just like to play without the goblin thanks.

As you say in the post it is gambling that is it nigga
Free money because people are guaranteed to buy them and it won't matter how many because some autist is gonna splurge on that shit either way.

Their brains turn into mush watching this shit and become the perfect grounds for injecting leftist propaganda into.

>it's literally fucking gambling but you actually lose every time
so it's gambling then

>the perfect grounds for injecting leftist propaganda

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