I kid you not.. and the expert who was talking at the time said yes, that needs to be looked at “because of the ability to sell and buy on illegal 3rd party website”

its already illegal

tf they gonna do?

Make it 18+ in aus

isn't Australia already like the most annoying market to sell games in?

Yes

It's a terrible market for consumers

Prices are high, the Australian government are a bunch of puritan babies

The thing about it is, when you look into how they say gambling is “bad” and “addictive”.. that’s 100% bullshit. Its based of the fixed ratio vs variable ratio study that is horse shit. 100% bullshit study that was used in the loot box AUS com.

Also many games don't have a proper Aus/SEA server so you get 200ping minimum

Like you're on fucking dial up

my problem with most lootboxes is that they are dangerously close to modern slot machines, which i do believe are problematic as they use social engineering to maximize money spent and minimize money put out that in some cases is tailored to the user

I'm West Coast so I run into a lot of Aussies and Kiwis in vidya

lootboxes are not that bad yet

Nearest region lol

Then people like Jim Sterling and others go on about how predatory loot boxes are.. while promoting gay lifestyles to children and pushing listeners to go get head meds if they don’t feel normal, and don’t listen to a doctor who doesn’t tell you what you want to hear. 100% bullshit!

I played a game with really bad lootbox mechanics, Rift

Like 75% of what used to be gear drops were boxes that you had to buy the keys for with cash

Oof

who are lootboxes taking money from? parents who don't pay attention to what their kids are doing

And this was a game that was supposed to be buy to play

Didn't it go f2p partway through or some shit?

Exactly G.. kids have parents. It’s not like kids are out gambling across town. They are in the living room 😂

My worst MTX experience was watching Battlefield Heroes get yeeted by p2win items

Bee, the Hawaii state rep Chris Lee said he wanted to regulate pay to win out of the market. This is leftism today

It was F2P but most of the stuff you'd buy would be expansion content like new classes

they sell it cuz people buy it

>regulate out pay to win
Wew

Just don't buy the game

so you mean all games?

It wasn't like the BAD kind of F2P unless you were into player housing (which involved shelling out for furniture)

becuase all but f2p are "pay to win" as you need to buy the game before you can win it

and that is 110% how that shit would go

It was his words, right after he called battlefront 2 a “Star Wars themed casino designed to lure children in”

like the time one country tried to regulate out online gambling and banned all video games

F2P is basically killing the chicken to get a few eggs

no, it was just a shit game

some f2p do it right

Look at the countries regulating loot boxes.. The EU.. that shit hole spot of the world.

The one that just destroyed their internet,
Lets trust them

Well to be honest I'm glad kids can't play slot machines