Any form of taking money inside a video game is the same abuse. Lootboxes per-se only disappeared once people admitted they were barely-disguised gambling. All that changed is the disguise.
And everyone scoffing ‘no no no, lootboxes were different, whatever’s happening now is fiiine’ have the same damn arguments as people who told me lootboxes were ‘fiiine’ twenty goddang years ago.
Do you think these constant updates that games are basically required to have nowadays are free? Someone’s gotta pay for cosmetics to bankroll the development of patches and content drops.
They’re only “required” because this abuse relies on addiction. You have to keep playing the same game, forever, so it can keep raking you across its wallet-hooks.
When games are sold - you get what’s in it. The whole game, all at once! We only expect patches to fix the ways the product was broken. That takes a slim fraction of the people involved and gets budgeted ahead-of-time like marketing. Some games do add stuff later, but only to encourage more sales of the whole-ass game.
Any form of taking money inside a video game is the same abuse. Lootboxes per-se only disappeared once people admitted they were barely-disguised gambling. All that changed is the disguise.
And everyone scoffing ‘no no no, lootboxes were different, whatever’s happening now is fiiine’ have the same damn arguments as people who told me lootboxes were ‘fiiine’ twenty goddang years ago.
Do you think these constant updates that games are basically required to have nowadays are free? Someone’s gotta pay for cosmetics to bankroll the development of patches and content drops.
They’re only “required” because this abuse relies on addiction. You have to keep playing the same game, forever, so it can keep raking you across its wallet-hooks.
When games are sold - you get what’s in it. The whole game, all at once! We only expect patches to fix the ways the product was broken. That takes a slim fraction of the people involved and gets budgeted ahead-of-time like marketing. Some games do add stuff later, but only to encourage more sales of the whole-ass game.