Assassin's Creed has Lootboxes

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HAHAHAHA

WELCOME TO THE SHITTY MODERN AAA GAME INDUSTRY

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I don't mind as long as the currency is strictly in-game and not funbux converted from actual money.

Are AAA games that expensive to make where they need lootboxes in single player only game to break even?

If everyone is demanding 100+ hours of content and continuous post-release support, yes.

Nope just business.

Nah, it's just good old capitalism at work

Will there ever be some kind of legislation about this or will it be handwaved because videogames are children's toys and who cares about regulating them?

>lootboxes outside of competitive multiplayer games
Who started this?

>Are AAA games that expensive
yes, especially the marketing.
Mobile gaming with microtransactions make more money:

AAA games will be 60 dollar phone games in less than a decade.

>loot boxes in competitive multiplayer games
Reevaluate your thought processes

MMO on PCs then mobile gaming that made it to mainstream. Then GTA online on consoles.

>I buy Ubisoft games
>I buy loot boxes

Videogames are the most profitable entertainment industry, even more than movies, the notion that AAA studios are a charity case is unbelievably retarded

This is going to continue to happen and get worse because the sheep will continue to buy and support these practices.

>play black guy
>have to loot

If you buy this game and buy loot boxes you deserve to be shoot in the street.

If americans parents weren't too busy watching handegg players kneeling, and were aware their little timmy is using hundreds of $ in literal online casinos for 12 year olds out there, this sort of shit would be regulated overnight

>capitalism
It's more like "gamers" that buy cosmetics that have no worth. It existed since flash games, but TF2 and CSGO made it a huge thing since people started to think that cosmetics are worth it.

I have this game pre-ordered and fully intend on buying loot boxes
Literally stop me

WE WUZ MICROTRANSACTIONS N SHIEEEEEEEEEET

does this mean DLC is finaly dead?

Brotherhood > 2 > Rogue > 4

debate me

>100+ hours of content
what was the last AAA game to have 100+ hours of single player content

It's kinda worth it tho, i see guys with $1000 knives being complimented all the time
Next birthday, i might ask my mom to buy me a CSGO knive with spiderweb pattern instead of a new iPad

What about blackflag?

don't care, it's not like I'd buy it anyway

I liked it better when they tried to nickel and dime your ass for cosmetic items. I can safely ignore this bullshit because I feel like buying overpowered items with real money is absolutely fucking retarded and only something a dumb ass whale would do

Monster Hunter.

at least wolfenstein won't have loot boxes, right?

The Witcher 3

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m-my hobby

Jews
expect low sales

Wouldn't need continuous post-release support for single player games if they made the damn things work from day one

As it stands, devs refuse to properly test and balance games, use their buyers essentially as free beta testers and then patch the game as bugs are found

Imagine if, just as an example and ignoring hardware limitations for the moment, AC: Unity had been released on PS2. In the state it was in at release

That's why people demand continuous post-release support, and as far as I'm concerned they're not entitled to a single penny for it because if they got things right the first time it wouldn't be necessary, not for a single player game

Who cares? Only retards buy modern AAA games so they deserve whatever shitty business practices they get.

>Monster Hunter
>AAA
Ha

>The Witcher 3
>100 hours
Hahahahahahaha

so... materialism... aka capitalism

This. If communism was allowed we would all beat the game and have every item the moment we hit start.

What's your point? There is nothing wrong with profiting from goods especially when most of the consumers are obsessed with skins.

Persona 5

I sure can't wait for DLCs to become packaged in crates. oi vey if you really want to continue Commander Shepard's adventures then you'll have to open dozens of EA's Fun Crates for Origin (PC)!

>>The Witcher 3
hours
>Hahahahahahaha
The main questline missions aren't the only single player content in the game. Running through all the major sidequests/getting even a portion of the points of interest in the main game and expansions is easily approaching 100 hours or going over.

I'll kick your fucking ass scumbag.
Picture attached is me.
I'll be at 5615 Hollywood Blvd today if you think you can take me

And Yakuza 0

BOTW probably

There's nothing to debate, you're factually wrong.

Unless you're playing minigames forever it really doesn't

No, if we had communism I'd slit your throat for a potato

Capitalism and communism are just two sides of the same shekel

>path of exiles has lootboxes now

Pretty obvious Ubi's been planning this ever since the loot chests you could only open with some shitty "companion app" no one in their right mind would ever install. At first it probably won't even make them a lot of money, but you can see where the iteration is moving.

i don't have a point, in fact we are actually agreeing.

JUST

AssCreed has always been a big part of why the industry is shit.

Who cares. None of you were actually going to buy an Ass Creed game in 2017, right?

What do they do? Isn't everything in PoE strictly cosmetic or convenience?

Like I'd argue that it's a requirement to own a currency tab and a premium stash tab, for the full multiplayer experience.
But it's still literally the best F2P model there is.

No, more likely is that games would be score-based and only developed to test the developments in the computing industry (Tetris)

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>a gay jew attorney made aids legal

You wish.

I didn't see anyone demanding it. What I saw is that developers continued to release patches because it was necessary to fix bugs in broken games.

It was devs who started pushing "games as a service" principle. First with DLC, then with cosmetic microtransactions, and now with gambling lootboxes. All in pursuit of more money for shareholders and not because consumers wanted it.

cant wait for the jim sterling callout video

I thought you guys loved loot boxes, didn't you guys praise and give Overwatch lootboxes massive attention when it first came out?

convenience is p2w

not as p2w as many other games, i totally agree that PoE's model is something for companies to strive for, but its not really an effective business strategy in general. GGG got lucky and made a good (or at least popular), game

if anything, i think the fact it constitutes online gambling will be its downfall, but that may specifically target games with trading.

simple fix for the companies though, remove trading and watch the shekels come in

On Sup Forums, we call (((them))) kikes.

That’s their excuse. The real reason is that they just want MORE money. Having a successful game that sells well isn’t enough for publishers. They set expecations way too high for sales and mismanage budgets and expect it all to be A ok. Every and any chance to make more money at the expense of a game itself will be taken.

This has been a disappointing thing to learn about for a game I felt pretty excited for (inb4 ubifag responses) but I’m hoping we get some clarification to how far this loot crate system goes in this game.

For what reason would you do this

I'm pretty sure there's an MSPaint comic of a guy eating shit while gloating about how much it'll piss off Sup Forums, if you could pretend I posted that here I'd really appreciate it.

Neither of those are AAA, the fuck are you smoking?

>Literally
Some ameribro explain me why everybody is saying this out of context now?

Millennials and Gen Z can't into English.

Why, logically, would there ever be a law against this? It's complete shit, but in no realm of the universe is it illegal. Just stop buying shit games.

this

>DADDY GUBMENT, SAVE ME
Fuck off, just don't buy it.
Vote with your wallet you fucking manchild.

nice goal posts

>"what was the last AAA game to have 100+ hours of single player content?"
>[2 games that aren't AAA]
>"Those aren't AAA games."
>"NICE GOALPOSTS FAGGOT!"

welp, guess i wont preorder.
thanks op

>He was planning on pre-ordering this shit to begin with
Disgusting.

>playing western game after *insert year where literally every western game went to shit*
they a shit, i just play jap shit now mostly.

Wonder how much longer this is gonna go on before the FTC just labels it gambling.

Unfortunately, Japshit is full of microtransactions too.

>weeb is now japanese
lol

>gacha systems in games made illegal
>they just move onto the next step which is just straight-out buying the thing you want, making it even more P2W in nature

That's overpriced DLC, not microtransactions.

>T-THAT JAPANESE GAME DOESN'T COUNT
Disgusting.

>go from map packs and actual expansion packs to microtransactions to loot boxes in single player games
Is there a way to make this an even bigger plague than it already is?

2nd industry crash when

i said i like japanese games, not weeb trash, weeb games to jap games are what f2p mmos are to payed mmos

>weeb games to jap games are what f2p mmos are to payed mmos
So they're both shit?

Just because they're japanese doesn't mean they aren't aaa.

lol ur stupid

Persona 5. Finished the first run with 120, didn't even try to complete everything.

It's not out of context, it's a cry for help. He's calling for someone to literally stop him from doing it because he can't do it himself.

Nothing wrong about what he said, chests that can be opened with in game currency containing random loot have been happening for decades.

Atlus is not an AAA developer, and Yakuza is not an AAA series, especially not in the west.
I don't think Yakuza even gets adverts on TV in the US.

Thats DLC, microtransactions is when you buy ingame currency to buy things

At least with DLC and microtransactions you know what you are going to fucking get These mystery boxes are complete cancer and are rigged so you get garbage all the time instead of that ONE item you want

>Atlus is not an AAA developer
LMAO

So do we base AAA games based on technical complexity and high budget? Or it's advertisement?

Are you retarded?
Do you actually think some JRPG dev that makes maybe a game or 2 a year is AAA?

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Budget and advertisement typically, though you can include technical complexity if you want, but it's not a requirement (See: BOTW).