nah thats a reverse fact,

due to progressive taxes, low income people pay less tax money,

If they gamble all their money away, the big gambling emporiums with their larger taxes, would be paying way more

@I AM ERROR gambling legality is closely related to prostitution's legality. Its manly just for "moral" reasons.

also upper class people with a "not in my back yard" mentality

Normally I'm against giving the government more powr to control or regulate anything, but given the addictive nature of lootboxes and crates, I'm fine with this one concession.

Then again, I'm also against drugs being illegal, so I hate this 'middle ground' stuff we have going on where some substances are legal, but others are not.

It's like, either ban all drugs, or make them all legal.

Either ban gambling or don't.

keep in mind i am not in favor of more rules

im in favor of recognizing lootboxes as they are

gambling

and applying the rules of gambling to lootboxes too

aka no minors

Yeah, I get that argument, but then with that same logic you have to do the same thing to card packs, like in Magic the Gathering.

The argument *for* lootboxes up until this point has been "but you always get *something* for what you pay for, so it's not *really* gambling guys.
Even though it feeds off of the same risk-taking part of the brain *as* gambling... but it's totally **NOT** the same thing, guys!

hmmm

maybe kids should not be allowed to buy random card packs too

though i have to admit, it seems ok for card packs

i bought plenty of pokemon card packs myself

well not plenty, but enough

In an online game like Hearthstone, I would argue not, because of how easy and convenient they've made it to buy them. It's much easier to get 'hooked' onto opening card packs in an online game than in a brick-and-mortar store.

im just wondering if i can justify the difference between card packs and lootboxes..

even if they are digital card packs...

if i recall correctly the overall value of a card pack from pokemon is always the same, if you count cathegories

like

1 shiny, couple of energies and a couple of basic pokemon

oh and tech cards

Still really similar to lootboxes, only lootboxes typically have a variety of items, not just cards, but then that's really hair-splitting at that point.

its also possible im just biased in favour of collectable cards cause i didnt feel like it effected me so much

never had any experience with lootboxes as a kid

Before I knew what I was doing, I let myself spend $500 on Hearthstone...

Years ago.

And I don't even play that game anymore today.

500 is like my gaming budget for over a year lel

including components fyi

I don't have a particular budget, but yeah I definitely don't spent that much on a single game unless I've been playing it for years.

Like last year I spent quite a bit on gaming, but only because the Nintendo Switch came out.

too give you an idea, i consider a game worth it, if it provided an hour of enjoyable gameplay for every euro spent

most games dont make that treshold tho

so i wait for sales

i never play shit on release anymore

I rarely buy games on release or preorder anymore, with Nintendo being the exception.