Hmmmm

hmmmm

Fuck drumpf, and fuck white people!

>it’s real

There is a God. Thank you, Jesus. The loot crate menace will die in infancy.

...

>infancy
Do you mean your own infancy? That shit has existed for years now.

>gambling authority of Belgium
>Belgium
why the fuck is this even a country

It's most likely that not will happen since the authorities are most likely getting bribed but it will scare off publishers for at least a while longer.

is this what sex is like?
fucking disgusting

>phoneposter
Die

Fucking NSFW fuck off

MODS

>Overwatch loot boxes give nothing but cosmetic items.
>None of them have any impact on the game in terms of an advantage.
>People complain about it.

It's literally just cosmetic items like skins, spray logos, voice lines, etc. Why does that upset people so much, like if people want to spend $100's on cosmetic items then that's their choice. I'd understand if the items in a loot box gave a clear advantage like how Battlefront II's lootboxes work, but Overwatch loot boxes are 100% cosmetic.

No one cares when it was for MMOs and F2P trash. The issue is that you have big AAA games with them now.

REEEEEEEEEE

WHAT ABOUT FREE MARKET?

WHAT IF I WANT TO BE KEKED INTO ETERNAL GRIND FOR VIRTUAL ITEMS?

>not TF2

This, but unironically.

>bbbb-but muh Blizzard are good guys

wonder who is behind this post

this but im not joking

Remember when you had to earn your cosmetics? No you don’t bevause yoi staryed gaming in 7th gen.

>hmmmm
Reddit.

They're still gambling and they do affect gameplay by making the entire reward and longevity system of the game revolve around gambleboxes.

>People complain about it.
because it's literally gambling, even to the point where people have gotten addicted to it, it's about fucking time this got investigated.

Because this is a predatory business model and the true cancer of it isn't whether it effects the game or not.

>the Sup Forums extension finds deleted porn links

yay me

Why Overwatch and Battlefront 2 of all fucking games? You can't even resell the items you get from them, makes no sense. Why don't they target CSGO or PUBG? You know, games where people are actually profiting off of. Stupid.

Does cuck filter to kek now?

Lootboxes are cancer no matter what's in them.

Overwatch is a full priced game, if they want to sell skins they should let you earn currency by winning, or leveling or such and buy them directly.

Making you gamble for it is just a way of ripping off/exploiting people with addictive personalities.

Overwatch started this bullshit and deserves to be burned by it.

He does have a point, OW stuff is cosmetic. If they hid gameplay elements behind them then it woujld be a problem. Like, if they had character abilities get locked behind those loot boxes then it would be cause for alarm.

only capitalized

It will not. If, and only if there will be a lootbox regulation, then they will find other ways to implement them. There is no winning.

KEK

Earn?

You mean when there were just cash shops in the games if you wanted anything other than recolors?

Don't reply to me ever again.

I hate you

It'd be pretty funny if they had to get gambling licences and check their users age.

Neat

KEK

Better hire a jew lawyer to hire a jew investigator to investigate jews business for jewing Customers.

>I can’t control myself and this need a nannystate to protect me

ok cutie

>let you earn currency by winning, or leveling or such

They literally do. By a lot. Have for a long time

Valve already got in legal trouble with their own gambleboxes, what's your point?
Could it be that you're just a butthurt actiblizzdrone?

Don’t forget your helmet when you go to school tomorrow

btw im not defending lootboxes with this post, it just seems like a waste of time to investigate "gambling" in games where the user doesn't profit from lootboxes in any form (besides BF2 gameplay-wise)

Guess who's next?

they should make being fat illegal, so Sup Forums would finally lose weight

I wonder if this will also affect gacha games like FGO and stuff. Some already disclose probabilities for stuff, but shit like Dragon ball's dokkan is straght up unforgivable. They flag some accounts so they will never get a certain card or something.

Post more mommy.

Awesome.

Valve didn't get in any trouble.
People that were running gambling sites that allowed you to convert skins into real money did.

>game is literally ONLY played during seasonal events where there are multiple skins at insane price and the only way to get them is thru lootboxes
That's the only reason it's still played so yeah lootboxes have a big impact on the game, no one genuinely finds that piece of shit fun

>They flag some accounts so they will never get a certain card or something.

I’m sure you have plenty of evidence you can share with us

If there's money in it, the government will get involved, or not involved if they get bribed.

I love you

Finally

But you do earn currancy from overwatch to buy the skins you want. Any repeat item and they even have straight money rewards.

QUESTION!

What's the difference between purchasing Loot Boxes in games and purchasing Booster Packs for MTG/Pokemon/Yugioh/etc. ?

No, seriously, what's the actual difference? If one's gambling, isn't the other?

no amount of half truths is going to change the fact that it's a skinner box retard

Are you actually retarded?

>gabeN wins again

I draw the line at lootboxes in games like TF2 and CS:GO, people may have memed about those games for years now but at least in those games you can trade shit, and in TF2's case the game is f2p anyway. Looking at what we have now, its not really that bad in those games.

But lootboxes don't have to be in every game, I mean for fucks sake they are in single player games now. But I don't hate lootboxes because its "gambling"(Gambling is not a bad thing it should not be regulated) but I hate them because its such a shitty, greedy way to hide unlocks. I don't want the government telling devs what kind of games they can make, I held this belief during Jack Thompson, during Feminist Frequency, and during this.

The government stepping in is not the answer to this.

Lootboxes are not ok in a paid game no matter what, cosmetic or gameplay. CS:GO and Overwatch are both shitty and predatory games. Remeber in the old days how you used to unlock cosmetics in games?

>game marketed towards children where the reward system is lootboxes
???

They have the same effect on the brain as gambling and there are near countless stories of children buying hundreds with their parents credit cards. Just admit it, you are a shill and move on.

He's right though, Blizzard lowered the season length from 3 months to 2 exactly because no one was playing the game after their ranks stabilized, they even directly said that.

You're playing for shiny boxes and numbers going up, not for the gameplay.

>toy blind bags hoping you get the one you want
Gambling
>buying a car and hoping it doesn’t crash on the drive home
Gambling
>walking outside and hoping it doesn’t start raining
Gambling

>constantly bitch about a mostly unregulated market continually doing shitty things and trying to fuck consumers out of as much money as possible
>thinks jews control and own everything
>wants healthcare and education to be privatized

The Alt-Right, ladies and gentlemen.

That does not make the game “literally unplayable”

>Sup Forums cries about loot boxes
>companies remove loot boxes
>now you can only get in game items by directly buying them with real money, instead of earning loot boxes by playing the game

Nothing. The only difference is that booster packs cost money. Lootboxes can be earned but it's addicting because of the fact its so hard to get one. Its like a drug. You can wait patiently to get it or automatically but it

It was in a reddit post, lemme find it.

>people whining literally don't even know how the system works

No one said that in this thread, what are you talking about?

You can (usually) buy the cards individually from a third party.

Technically they did with Dota 2, but they changed it to where you can't get duplicates, unless you keep buying the treasure after collecting all the was inside of it.

So that means if Loot Boxes become purchase only they'd be ok?

OY VEYY

YOU STUPID GOYIM DELETE THIS NOW

GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU STUPID GOYIM IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE

Only for you dear

blizzard went as far as to fuck with the algorithm on lootboxes to very rarely give repeat items so you're less likely to accrue currency for when new event skins come around and make desperate pixel-happy shitters more inclined to buy lootboxes when events roll around

literally evil genius tier

sadly nothing will come of this

>they remove gambling lootbox rng
>their shit games will suffer in playerbase

wew nothing to lose for me :).

PoE does that it works great, the game shouldn't rely on gambling hooks to keep players.

I love the "Just let us buy the cosmetics we want directly" meme.

>have a successful game
>can make additional cosmetic items
>hmm people will buy a skin for $10
>oooor spend up to $50 for a chance to get it

There is no reason what so ever to let people buy it directly. Bonus points for making certain cosmetic items time limited, so people will be prone to buying more boxes in a shorter time frame.

You get a physical product that you can sell or trade.

KEK

Imagine the lewds sounds.
Anal is the best.

Its not gambling if you're rewarded either way. You'll never get an empty lootbox

based muttposter

>game journalists warn about this shit
>retards here dont listen because GAMERGATE

so why are you crying if you dont play the games anyway
>b-b-but reddit told me it's baaad

I mean in order of sin I'd place Overwatch last but still needs to go. Tf2/csgo actually encourage gambling and real money trwding. Then you got battlefromt which is just a mobile game hidden as a modern one.

The normal games we knew in the past can't last. Whales in low graphics low labor costs of mobile devs make it so.

>in belgium

Who fucking cares.

Also if loot boxes are gambling then so are TCGs.

LoL does this and I prefere this system. Since I am not a poorfag like you I can spend money on virtual shit. Spending my money on a chance of getting something I want is where I draw the line.

Its fucking true, OW is poorly designed game from the ground up doesn't even have quick updates like every other multiplayer game
But WHY are people still playing, for good goy boxes hell they even mentioned before that player numbers spike during events and placements cause people want fucking skins and piss colored weapons

You are still sort of gambling on booster packs and most people are aware of this but

>you actually get a physical product
>it's a physical product worth something
>you can trade the physical product
>you can buy specific physical product from third parties instead of endlessly opening packs until you get what you need
>also you aren't buying "magic the gathering the game" for 60 dollars and it's an empty box that you need to buy packs for

Lootboxes are a lot worse

I don't know about you but I am feeling very sleepy. We could probably keep discussing this at a later time when we are not all so sleepy. Ya-wn! So tired...

>game is only profitable because of whales specnding $1000 on microtransactions
Why would you even play these games anyway? Any non-F2P game with any microtransactions at all is a shit game.

>You get a physical product that you can sell or trade.

So then if they did it like Counter Strike does, or like how Steam does their cards, that'd be fine?

It's almost as if there were nearly twenty years of video games before lootboxes became popular. I wonder how they handled item progression back then...

If they add currency you can earn in game to unlock these items as fuck tarded that is, it would be 100% superior than loot boxes.

>Overwatch started this bullshit
TF2 started it, though.

Yes, lootboxes are more profitable than a simple cash shop but they are anti-consumer and abusive and that's why they should erased from the face of this Earth.

Holy shit its happening
This is amazing