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  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Reminds me of that Australian law that was proposed to make anything with a relation to casino games Restricted 18 but merely mature for exploitative slot machine loot box mechanics.

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      8 hours ago

      Sounds about right. I’d seen “slot machines” (we call em poker machines or “the pokies”) more times than I can remember before I was 18.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      12 hours ago

      I haven’t seen Loot Boxes in a game in awhile, I kinda prefer those to FOMO…

      I think the perfect system is you earn Loot Boxes by playing that can contain anything, but you can buy the specific things you want at any time, the boxes themselves are unlocked through gameplay.

      Heroes of the Storm did this, and god I miss that game.

      I wish DBD did it

      • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zip
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        24 minutes ago

        HOTS 2.0 did so much good, man. It’s a shame the game’s basically dead. Was a lot of fun to play with my brother

        I realised that what brought me back to League was Wild Rift. Maybe of HOTS had a “mobile” adaptation, I’d come back. Just not much (if at all) a PC gamer nowadays

      • mindbleach
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        3 hours ago

        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.