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

>children are the target audience of this T Rated game

Well... I'm thinking about it now and maybe kids need to learn a lesson that slot machines are bad

bad?

Maybe Jim Sterling can get an endorsement from Nambla

slot machines are basically cons now

i mean, children frequently are the target audiences of T and sometimes M rated games

sometimes? you mean most of hte time?

No way, they are an offer. Take it or leave it

No, they're explicitly regulated to be not a con