Bad analogy. No one’s making you wait in line. If you heard that a game is going to give you random drops and you don’t like it just don’t buy it for f*ck’s sake, no one is taking that choice away from you. Why gamers have to make a big deal of the stupidiest things?

If you paid $60 for the privilege of going to a cafe were you have the option to enter a raffle for different coffee cup colors and you reacted by screaming about how you’re being forced to spend extra money . . . then yes, you’d be a toxic consumer advocate.

There’s this certain toxic Hyper-Consumer attitude that permeates gaming. This self-aggrandizing view peddled by “consumer advocate” YouTubers convincing people who identify themselves as capital ‘C’ Consumers that they and their opinions are the most important things on the planet by virture of spending money. Their…

Jason is on point! Its a shameless collection of tactics that came over from mobile gaming (which I’m not as upset about because the games are at least “Free”), Japanese Pachinko, Las Vegas gambling machines, etc. What offends me more is that it masquerades itself as the evolution of “expansion packs” which were…

It’s pretty much exactly the problem we have in the real world. The homeless population just grows while some rich assholes buy every house in the city for the express purpose of trading them at prices the homeless couldn’t hope to afford.

Except for the entirety of FFXIV 1.0.

That just hurts the developers and engineers. They have easy ways to track and see that people are buying the game BUT not buying the micro transactions. The dev and engineering teams can argue against upper management that all those man hours spent designing the stupid micro transactions and loot box system were of…

I’ve said it elsewhere: it’s not gambling. Skins/Orcs/Cards/other loot items don’t have cash value, nor can they be traded for cash. Therefore, it’s not gambling.

hahaha holy shit

I don’t actually think this will milk money out of much of anyone. As I mentioned in the article, the game straight up gifts you a bunch of those premiere boxes / orcs, to the degree that I started ignoring them. While the internet rages about the principle of a thing, in practice, the system is relatively generous…

Probably the forthcoming Totinos Pizza Loot Roll.

There is not a single thing a Overwatch loot box than can make the game more fun or any more balanced.

Would you like to show us on the doll where the loot box touched you?

... a handsome orc

If the Pay-to-win aspect of the game really isn’t, I’m all-in. I loved the first game (I have a high tolerance for repetition if the setting/gameplay is my cup of tea), and was super excited about the announcement of a second. It sounds like they didn’t entirely fix the “problems” with the first game, but since I was…

One time, I landed a critical that set my sword, along with all the dry grass surrounding me, on fire. Orcs ran in every direction, screaming, and before long, I was on fire, too.

It’s the old “Hey, FUCK YOU causal, I grinded like a mofo for my weapon/armor/pet/skill/etc, you don’t deserve it like I do!” thing. Elitists get super, ultra pissed when content they had to spend days or longer working at to get becomes accessible to the guy who might only have five hours a week to get.

PUBG now exists. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that a very large chunk of those rather toxic players have migrated over to that shooter.

100% agree. You really should have your logo in you game icon because of the way the games are laid out on Switch. But man, it’s so completely unnecessary to have reddit posts with 100+ comments on the front page of the sub every time there’s a subpar logo.

Some players might express their feelings in an overly aggressive way, but I think the problem is legit. Switch icons are what you see everytime you’re on the home screen, no matter if the game card is in or not, and they don’t go away either when you play new games. They are taking more than 1/3rd of the screen…