Lootboxes should be regulated!

>Lootboxes should be regulated!

Video games are not an utility. You don't need to buy video games and lootboxes. Just because you don't like something does not warrant government intervention.

I wish to marry that Dva.

>overcuck

Why koreans wear a contrarian kimono? they should come up with some more unique clothing.

Wrong. Companies are not free to do anything they want and they havent been since the 1920's.

Because consumer protection should never be a valid task for government.

>Drugs should be regulated!

Drugs are not an utility. You don't need to buy drugs. Just because you don't like something does not warrant government intervention.

this doesn't really work because you're right

Fuck off Activision, you are going to be regulated and you will like.

>Child porn should be regulated!

Child porn are not an utility. You don't need to buy child porn. Just because you don't like something does not warrant government intervention.

So why are loot boxes causing all this asshurt in a game with free updates, but mobage gacha shit is still fine

Why do you have a picture of my wife

Casinos are regulated despite not being a utility, video games already have regulations. Maybe you should listen to the free market, if customers aren't pleased with a product shouldn't the corporation be held accountable?

>Murder should be regulated!

Murder is not a utility. You don’t need to buy weapons and assassins. Just because you don’t like something does not warrant government intervention.

Blizzard should’ve at least consider making SOME of the skins available onlt by gameplay and I ain’t talk simple “play X for 100 games” or some shit, I’m talking like tie it to an achievement the characters already have”

Then again, I’d be impossible to get a Zen or Lucio skin through it but think of the bragging rights for getting a skin for Zen because you were able to discord and kill 4 people in 6 seconds.

all asians cultures are the same
just some like torturing animals and others like getting fucked by them

I'm fine with loot boxes that only have cosmetic rewards, at least in Overwatch you can buy skins if you save up for them.

There is a massive difference between actual health issues and colorful costumes in video games. Comparing the lootbox issue to drug regulation, lead in food, murder and child porn is just absurd and childish.

The only reason you want lootbox regulation is that you personally dislike them and find the idea of a nanny state appealing.

In-game items which cannot be converted into real currency is not gambling. This makes them different from real gambling such as casinos where real money is concerned.

>Lootboxes are literally the same as these things.

>gambling isn't gambling

>an utility
lmao fuck off you third worlder

D.Va is not cute, in fact she's down-right fucking obnoxious.

>implying there is anything wrong with a nanny state

>people literally do not understand the concept of natural rights anymore
Government schools have been successful

How do I find a cute Korean GF?

Gambling is actually a very serious issue on par with drugs since it all ties back to addiction and a lot of it is regulated or outright illegal for legitimate reasons.

But I don’t expect a D.fag to understand

Go to Korea and flaunt your big american penis.

Nah government intervention is good and cool, there should be more of it because corporations are run by cum=eating freaks who should be scourged from this earth via guillotine.

Yep, this is the mindset of the average anti-lootboxer

>not-gambling isn't gambling
Fixed that for you

Shoo shoo soyboy. Shouldn't you be in the meeting of the local marxist-leninist club?

Video games are not in the sphere of natural rights. They do not need to be provided and regulated by the government. They are not a right.

You can get addicted to anything. Should we ban coffee and designer clothes too?

>an utility
learn2english retard

I want to put my D into her Va if you understand what I'm saying here

Explain further

Nice amount of zero arguments.
Caffeine is regulated btw.

from korea

>2050
>lootbox dealers are scarce and I'm not even sure this lootbox is pure

Are we talking about Gambling or are we talking about compulsive shopping you god damn Goalpost mover?

>Slot machines should be regulated!

Slot machines are not an utility. You don't need to play slot machines. Just because you don't like something does not warrant government intervention.

You don't get the holiday off, EAshill?

>Should we ban coffee and designer clothes too?

>Physical objects which provide sustenance/clothing/resale value that doesn't target children or addictive personalities are the items i choose for this equivalency.

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>DVA KEKS

DUDE

>everything the gubment do is evil. everything regulated is evil. it's okay for children to gamble.
Is this an amerifat thing or a lolbertarian thing, or both?

D.Va's the kind of girl you want to fuck raw and choke her so she passes out during coitus.

Well then I guess we better become South Korea and start monitoring how long people play video games because that too is an unhealthy addiction. There are people who die sitting in their chair for endless hours, that means government regulation time

>Caffeine regulated
In what way? Nothing prevents me from going to a store and buying 20 packs of coffee.

Your argument was about the addiction of gambling (even though lootboxes are not that). So I didn't move any goalposts.

Lootboxes do not target children.

It's called believing in your rights. Also, lootboxes are not "gambling for children", because
1. Lootboxes are not gambling
2. It's the duty of the parents to teach kids the value of money, not the government.

While you can get addicted to anything, gambling has been proven to be more susceptible to lead to addictive behavior, and many casinos or other gambling parlors often use techniques to encourage such addictive behavior. Not to mention addiction can lead to more serious negative effects than say a coffee addiction. My mother used to be addicted to coffee, and all it lead to was headaches if she didn't have a cup of coffee in the morning. My uncle on the other hand had a gambling addiction and until recently was still paying off debts from it (ironically he got the money to pay them off by winning the lottery)
There's a reason cigarettes are regulated and coffee isn't: one can destroy your life easily, the other can't.

Lootboxes are scummy and people defending have to be shills but asking for more government regulation on videogames doesn't sound very good.

It's actually good and cool to deprive corporations of revenue and put more power in the hands of the worker, IMO. The best way to defeat loot boxes forever is for the developers of video games to unionize or seize the means of production.

Now this is a problem, actual videogame addiction, redditors are mad because they BOUGHT the game and felt ripped off, they fucking bought from EA after all the shit they've done.

Same

You're right. They shouldn't be regulated.

They should be banned.

Along with microtransactions, outright.

>muh economic efficiency and market equilibrium

It's not the boxes that need regulation, it's the companies, in order to reduce their escalating exploitation of consumers.

Not him, but is it really gambling in Overwatch when you can earn everything for free just by playing? It's pretty analogous to old video games where you unlock skins and shit by playing the game.

Although if you're talking about stuff like TF2 or BF2 where you have to pay for gameplay changing items, then I can agree that's bad.

>cp exploits kids for ez cash
>loot boxes exploits kids for ez cash

Better yet, we give them the ability to obtain fair dinkum pay and allow for the games to survive based on their quality, rather than the marketing arms of publishers.

It's for regulation on gambling not on video games. Are you worried that regulating lootboxes would lead to a slippery slope where you can't have anime tits in games or something?

I have no issue with regulation and generally approve of heavy regulation of industry. I don't care about le economic freedum

It's a damaging cancer that should be banned, yes.

Well, to begin with, I don't think you understand what regulated means. So whatever basis is there even to discuss anything with you?

It isn't good, at all, once you allow the suits to take over you are done, it's funny how on one side they are asking for their help but they go apeshit when they talk about removing net neutrality.

p-peepol shouldn't spend mony on stuff I don liek! don be a corporate chill.

It's the people that need to be educated, these people will keep spending on stupid useless crap.

>dude if you don't get fucked by a corporation it's literally communism
Guess I support communism then

The issue that I have with lootboxes is that in some games, such as the new Battlefront game, it affects the game, as you pick up powerups and heroes.

With games that use it cosmetically, then it shouldn't be regulated, nor should it be paid with actual cash. It's unreasonable for a game that has been a smashing success to continue to create continuing revenue when the product itself has passed the black a long time ago.

You have a good argument there, but lootboxes are not real gambling, you cannot get money out of them. They are more like trading card booster packs, which are not regulated. Though I must admit your argument is pretty much waterproof, unlike the ones the communists ITT spout.

What's with all the commies on Sup Forums?

>It's called believing in your rights.
That's why governments don't force recalls or have standards for vehicles, food, and drugs, right?

I want to fuck D.Va in her ass and choke her.

>all the government regulation is because it "targets kids"
>somehow parents aren't at fault at all
Ok sure. Are all the "affected kids" stealing their mother's bull's reparashuns credit cards?

>What's with all the commies on Sup Forums?
You tipped the pro-corporate hand too much. Gotta keep a balance, nigga

Again, vehicles, foods, and drugs are in an entirely separate realm than different voltage levels inside your computer.

>tfw you ruin own decent enough point with unnecessary (and poorly executed) Sup Forums garbage

>They are more like trading card booster packs, which are not regulated.
Numerous countries have banned TCG packs. Schools in the US have banned them as well and them being gambling has been talked about since the early 90's when magic released. Magic literally had to remove the ante system because it was gambling. Comparing tcg and lootboxes is retarded because TCG's were accused of gambling as well

There is nothing wrong with cosmetic loot boxes but when the contents affect the gameplay then it's a problem you stupid fucking cake boy.

That's the whole point behind this latest outrage at Battlefront. Fucking keep up nigger.

>being this much of a literal child that you don't even understand what regulation actually is and actually think it's just the big bad gubmint taken our freedumbs
Barely worth a (You) let alone arguing

I just want to say thanks for posting Dva pictures, user.

Because you say so?

>all the government regulation is because it "targets kids"
>somehow parents aren't at fault at all
Ok sure. Are all the "affected kids" stealing their parent's/guardian's credit/debit cards?
Jeez, dude. Sorry. I just wanted the Sup Forumstards who wan't lewtboxes to be regulated to answer.

>deprive corporations of revenue
>thinks there will be any workers left
Workers are the first to go when they start needing to cut costs

what is roulette?
>pay money
>spin wheel
>chance to win
what are lootboxes?
>pay money
>spin wheel
>chance to win

so what makes these 2 fundamentally different despite one being actual, certified gambling and the other not quite gambling yet?
>no guaranteed win on roulette
however, this would imply that if roulette gives you a prize every time you play, like some shitty 10 cent plush from china, despite not winning what you want, it would no longer be gambling. Needless to say, only a braindead moron would argue that roulette should no longer be considered gambling if you get a shitty thing you don't want instead of outright losing. So, what else is there that separates roulette and lootboxes? Lootboxes and their prizes are digital? But there are digital roulette, and what if your prize from roulette was bitcoin? Does that suddenly make roulette no longer gambling? Of course not. So that really only leaves the application of the prize. You wear/equip a lootbox item, while you can do whatever you want with the money you win.

Sup Forums doesn't want lootboxes regulated you dipshit.

Because one has actual money at stake where the other is equivalent to paying to play roulette just to watch it spin.

Which TF2?
I've don't know about Titanfall 2's situation, but everything that affects gameplay in Team Fortress 2 is obtainable through the drop system and crafting system.

So you're disagreeing about it?


Fair point. But why aren't TCGs regulated them?

You're welcome.

Real money != some virtual hat

but that's just the 'no guaranteed win' argument rehashed.

real money is being spent for that virtual hat, again, just rehashing the prize aspect that I already debunked.

By that logic why is marijuana illegal but not cigarettes or alcohol?

So I'm spending money to earn absolutely nothing? Shit is worse than gambling then.

Why are blizzdrones defending this shit.
It's like they treat blizzard as their friend, if you say anything shit about blizzard you get jumped by the rabid fanbase.

>the 'no guaranteed win' argument
Must've missed it, what was it?

Real reason I was in this dumb thread at all, honestly.

Huh so it's not Sup Forums who's going "think of the children"?
Geez sorry again.

They are called blizzdrones for a reason.
The Blizzard circle of games and it's players are a literal cult.

roulette does not suddenly stop being gambling if every time you spin, you are guaranteed to at least get, for example, some shitty 10 cent chinese sweatshop plush toy.

Literally who cares about skins?
Shit, who gives a shit how fucking corporations mangle their sheep with these fucking normalfag games?
If a game you play has lootboxes it is a normalfag game and it was always destined to be shit.
S T O P
P L A Y I N G
N O R M A L F A G
V I D E O G A M E S

But if there's no prize at all at stake it's no different than paying to ride a rollercoaster.

Overwatch lootboxes don't affect gameplay.

You are extremely retarded.

>I need to expel excessive energy protecting the interests of multi billion dollar international companies

I agree.

They should however be rated by the ESRB as gambling and therefore rated as Adult Only

but there is a prize at stake; the coveted stupid digital hat. Like I said, the only difference is the application of the prize.

Gooks hate Japs yet all asian culture is the same. They eat rice and dog, wear silk and drink rice wine.

The virtual hat cannot be converted into real currency, it's worthless. Bitcoin has value and can be converted to real currency.

Your bad purchasing choices are not the responsibility of government.