Gambling lootboxes

Passing a hot potato.

regulatory bodies have already decided that lootboxes are not gambling

or do you really think that a multi-billion dollar industry somehow slipped under their radar?

It was intentional, "they" want their industry left untouched.

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Who

(((they)))

Who

There is only one choice left, bros. We must use...THAT.

That's right, we must weaponize Reddit.

>the ratings board paid for by the video game have deemed the most profitable gaming trend isn't an issue
Golly, how shocking.

im glad im an americlap and i dont have to hear "PEGGEY 13" before commercials

>go to subway
>order a sandwich
>Sandwich Artist makes you a great sandwich
>before you start eating the Chief Condiment Supervisor tells you that you can a random extra topping for only 50 cents to make your sandwich taste even better
>you sperg out and tell him that this is gambling and it should be illegal and that they can keep their sandwich
>you keep going on and on about it, your rage gradually increasing and you start screaming incoherently and tossing the contents of your sandwich all over the place
>the Sandwich Artist and the Chief Condiment Supervisor fail to calm you down and call the Bagel Meister so he can explain the situation to you
>he tells that it's not gambling because you are still getting a topping for your money, even if it's not the one you want
>This doesn't stop your impotent rage, and as run out of your culinary ammunitions you start using your feces as a ballistic weapon
>after calling the Bagel Meister a kike you storm off without even taking a bite of your sandwich, your hands smelling like feces, meatballs and Sweet and Sour Sauce

This is how people complaining about lootboxes look

>food metaphor
IMAGINE BEING SO FAT

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this is bait. please do not reply to it.

gam·ble
ˈɡambəl/
verb
1.
play games of chance for money; bet.
"she was fond of gambling on cards and horses"
synonyms: bet, place/lay a bet on something, stake money on something, back the horses, game; informalplay the ponies
"he started to gamble more often"
bet (a sum of money) on a game of chance.
"he was gambling every penny he had on the spin of a wheel"
2.
take risky action in the hope of a desired result.
"the British could only gamble that something would turn up"

Based on this information, Loot Boxes of any form sound like gambling to me. Don't care either way, not playing those games.

Jesus just accept loot box as the consequences of you cheap fucks not wanting to raise game base price. If you don't like them don't buy them they are optional. OPTIONAL

>Based on this information, Loot Boxes of any form sound like gambling to me
Cool, I'm ready to ask you at the second you become an authority over this

Whats with the sudden Sup Forums obsession with loot boxes. Fucking, Overwatch has been out for more than a year. How slow are you tards. Did something else happen?

>can't look into a dictionary
>"but muh games"

its fine for me because i will never play any of these shitty online meme games with loot boxes therefor i am unaffected, and if a single player game wants to have loot boxes, well then i feel justified in pirating if i even want to play it at all

it’s not gambling it’s krambling, totally different guys

It's getting attached to every major game and not only for cosmetics

Then
>go to buffet, pay for access, pick and choose your meal as you wish
Now
>go to buffet, pay for access, half the options but you can pay extra to access other buffet options
The future
>go to buffet, pay for access, there's 3 grey food things you can choose from, but you can pay to spin THE WHEEL OF BUFFET for a random choice
>IT'S NOT GAMBLING, YOU GOT CHICKEN LIVERS INSTEAD OF THE PIZZA YOU WANTED SO YOU STILL WON

me too
however im glad the announcer has a steady job to feed his family

I enjoyed this post

>buying loot boxes

your fault for getting burned

stop trying to impose your will on us who don't buy that shit

lmao

because now every fucking game is adding them. first it was just f2p (like with tf2) then paid multiplayer games (OW,pubg) now fucking single player games are getting them too (Assassins creed, new lotr game)

Don't go justifying you pirating because you are jobless neet

Somebody with the Mona Lisa painting being used for modern games should add a new entry.
The Mona Lisa with bits missing and a box with a random chance at getting either a shitty 2x2 piece of the art or a "legendary" 10x10 piece of the art.

I haven't even played a single game with loot boxes in my life. Maybe those douches should fix their taste instead of bitching about shitty games having shitty mechanics like lootboxes.

This is what the ESRB should have said

There should have been a proper legal inquiry before an industry body mouthed off and established an attitudinal precedent

saw this already the other day

I think review scores should be determined by loot crate for games using loot crates.

>go to car dealership
>purchase a vehicle
>Sales Bro sets you up with a new, pristine looking car with all the features advertised
>before you drive it off the lot the Chief Accessory supervisor reveals that the car has no spare tire, gas, oil, pistons, brake lines, or spark plugs
>"Maybe you'll get the golden stereo system with leopard skin print and giant neon pink dildo array"
>you ask why he would knowingly sell an incomplete product and force you to pay multiple times over for the chance to own a full working set of parts
>the Sales Bro and the Chief Accessory Supervisor explain that with a little work, you can make the car run fine as-is, all the extra buys are just 'additional' goodies purely for your enjoyment
>he tells that it's not gambling because you are still getting a part for your money, even if it's not the one you want
>You cite the advertisement they ran which specifically stated that you would be getting a full product for your money and there would be no parts kept back in the market
>They say it's not unobtainable: you can unlock the air freshener for free by pushing the car around the lot 500 times
>Go back to shilling their products and inform you that y you can't refund the purchase since you already got inside the car and tried to key the ignition

But they have gone up, season passes are basically the price rise. and if that was all it was I could live with it. But adding loot boxes is just double dipping.

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literally exists because psychopathic MBAs infest vidya now and managed to con people into accepting mobile game gacha as acceptable.

If only this artist did more actual work.

They are only in "those games" for now. A sequel to "thing you like" or new IP from "dev you like" could get lootboxes if it's allowed to be the new normal.

i know numerous Pay2Play MMOs that have lootboxes

that’s good then you don’t mind if everyone else pushes to remove them, seeing how they don’t affect you

name 3

>Go to restaurant
>Choose the "all you can eat" option for 60$
>Waiter tells me that in order to keep the service running, only gruel will be served
>You can buy additional food on top of that, but it's randomly chosen from the menu based no what the chef is currently cooking
>Settle and eat my gruel
>They only gave me a fork
>The guy next to me bought some additional food and he got a spoon

How many times a day for how many days are you going to spam this exact same thread? How about you write to your Congressmen and tell them to do something about it instead of whining on Sup Forums.

>you are still getting a topping for your money, even if it's not the one you want

Then I won't buy them, simple as that. If [Pizza Company You Like] starts adding rats to their formula, you wouldn't keep buying their pizza. They either fix their formula or go out of business.

Meh, as long as Japan shit doesnt have it I don't care

It's probably spurred by Shadow of War.

And if everyone did it you just got run out of your hobby. But I like video games enough to not want it dead to me.

all the reviewers give ratpizza a 10/10 and its the hottest new trend, besides all the other chains are modernizing and will soon serve ratpizza exclusively.

Except in this case they're using psychological trickery and additivies to hide the fact that it's rat and it's not rat it's "mixed meat" because for every 9 parts of rat there's 1 part of beef

I'm now 100% sure that the only people who dont think loot boxes is gambling is 13 year olds who are defending their chronic lootbox gambling addiction

>we can't define what's violence, only a violence commision can!
>we can't define what's nudity, only a nudity commision can!
>we can't define what's bad language, only a linguistic commision can!

yeah that may be bad but have you seen battlefront 2? It's literally pay to win

Unfortunately lootboxes are going to be added to all games unless the devs take a moral stance on it. They're stupidly profitable and in non-shitposting circles people will happily throw away $20 to get stuff right away for that rush. Then all they need is a couple weak people to whale and go into credit card debt and they randomly get a $10k windfall for no extra effort.

Yes? Because it's a pretty grey area.

>How slow are you tards.
you're the slow one bro

A gaming commission's whole purpose is to define gambling. This issue clearly isn't as black and white as you hoped it to be.

oh god shut the fuck up you cringy embarrassing 12 year old fuck

Yeah I've heard of that too, I'm just saying Shadow of War was the one that got a lot more spotlight recently and thus, is a more likely culprit for these constant lootbox complaint threads.

If everyone did it, I still have a library of games that I haven't even played yet; there are others I'd love to replay anyways. What's more, I'm not restricted to having only one hobby. Fuck 'em, they're not getting my money because of retarded trends.

Ratpizza Reviews, the new hit Jewtube Content Creator.

But everyone does this anyways. McDonald's is the best example: they describe their beef as "100% Beef," but their fish is described as "zesty tartar sauce." Yeah, but what's in the fish? I don't buy the fish.

and yet thanks to PEGI
Nintendo removed the slot machine from Pokemon

It's not black and white but since it's primarily aimed at children, it should be addressed. Legally grey areas shouldn't prey on minors.

I understand gacha games, but why the fuck are AAA games allowed to do this?

But food is SIGNIFICANTLY more restrictive in what you can and can't get away with. So you know they're at least within a certain boundary. Thanks to all that regulation.

Pokemon was already driving religious people crazy with being a cock-fighting simulator constantly talking about evolution which means it's of the devil, they had to remove the Game Corners before religious extremists jihaded Nnitendo HQ.

Well yeah dropping vidya forever is an option but I'd rather the industry rolled back on the cancer levels.

perfect

I like that OW gets used as an example, while I find their loot box system fine. It's just skins. No stats or gear. Just cosmetic bullshit. Which isn't even that fantastic to have in a first person game. I have bought 1(one) Lootbox in OW because I hade some money left on my Battle.Net account because of...something. Can;t remember what. I have a whole bunch of skins and shit too. The game literally throws these things at you.

In cases like that I disagree with loot crates but in things like Overwatch where the lootboxes in no way affect your game then I don't have an issue.

Because consumers are sheep and video game consumers seem especially ready to defend corporations from any criticism.

People are literally trying to flex on the internet because they threw away $60 on gacha.

I'm not disagreeing with you, the cancer trends need to stop. But reality is, if they don't stop, I won't buy their shit products.

It's more like it can enhance the flavor and make the sandwich worth 5k% more.

The FDA has approved that our rat meat is "safe for human consumption."

It's sad that people think taking away a game feature and reselling it to you at random is cool now. Goes to show how effective the publisher's tactics are. People aren't trying to get unlockable cosmetics back any more and even go as far as consider it the "ethical" DLC.

>Imagine being so wrong, even the retarded over the top food metaphor you came up with contradicts your point

Yes goyim, let your children give us all of your hard-earned money because they want just one more chance at getting Lucio's BLACKED shirt skin. It's not gambling at all in any shape or form though and to say otherwise is anti-Semitim.

Haha it's cause games are worth less than sixty dollars I get it

Always glad to see this post.

Textbook though, push the line too far, then take it back 2 steps and tell people "we've listened to your complaints and decided you were right" and now people are happy to buy game features that used to be free.

NOOOOOOOOOOO

And higher scores have less chance than the worse scores

Nobody here has children

Fuck off. Loot boxes should not exist in any game. Period.

Younger siblings.

All meat is safe to eat if raised and prepared properly. Domestic rats are clean animals. The biggest obstacle to harvesting rats is that they have so little meat it's not worth the time and money.

Now guinea pigs, they provide a good amount of meat.

If you can trade them for money or goods with a more tangible market value then it should be classified as gambling (since people aren't just paying to get something but rather for the chance to strike it big.) If they just stay in your account then it's just the same as mobile game crystals or smurfberries or whatever.

Personally I hate them but I'll tolerate them if they're hidden away in menus like in DXMD or Rise of the Tomb Raider. If they're in your face with 4th wall-breaking references or purchase prompts turning up in the actual game though then I'm not touching it.

type "overwatch account skin" into ebay

saved. tired of these fucking kikes shilling this "it's not gambling if you get something" retardation

>Goyim opens up Slot Palace in a non gambling state
>Gambling commission tell him thats gambling and that's illegal
>"Oy Vey! No, it isn't gambling!"
>"The people only buy the change to pull the lever to the machine! They're guaranteed a chance to pull the lever no matter what the outcome!"
>"It's not gambling, even if they don't get the outcome they want!"

Nothing's going to happen to lootboxes, just like nothing ever happened to trading cards like MTG, Yugioh, and Pokemon when people tried to rally against randomized cards in packages, and when it was baseball cards decades before that. People have tried to get them regulated (More to kill the industry than protect anyone), and failed every time.

Let's not have any new skins then since that's what pays for that. Probably no new maps either.

It's never going to happen.

Unless you want to put together a few cool millions to lobby some politicians gambling as it's legally defined will never apply to lootboxes as currently implemented.

Fucking good. Pack all the bits of operable game into one download and then fuck off of it after its out. develop something else

Who actually cares? The only people who buy lootboxes are people who can't control their wallets. If the lootbox system didn't exist, they'd just be throwing it at something just as meaningless.
You all are so late to this entire issue. Lootboxes have already been refined as a practice. Remember when they first came out and weapons were locked behind them? They've moved on to almost exclusively cosmetics because people will still buy them and they don't have to deal with backlash from nerds. It's too late.

And I don't see anyone up in arms over something like the trading card game market, which is actually pay to win. and suckers more people out of their cash with packs of cardboard.

Then just play the base game.

>the people that don't want this to be classified as as gambling because they'll lose money from chillins otherwise have classified this as NOT gambling.

really activates those almonds......

They didn't ship a base game, retard, they shipped half of one

>food analogy

ignore and move on