Except when you buy into a collectible card game, you don’t buy a complete game and then add on to it or enhance it via card packs. Additionally, the collectible part in CCG means you acquire value by adding to a collection, and can trade them as they are real world goods. In essence, the argument would have merit if…

I completely agree they’re the same thing. But that doesn’t mean that loot boxes aren’t gambling, rather it means that CCG packs are.

Except, I can buy exactly the magic card I want from other people who’ve already opened the packs.

but if the lootbox is ignorable, that seems to me to be less of a concern than some other things

Keeping servers up and running is expensive

Stop making single player minded games multiplayer whores. Stop charging $60 for MMO budgeted shooters and charge less but a monthly fee.

They can do what they want, but these loot boxes have influenced my buying decisions. I canceled my Star Wars Battlefront 2 preorder over the progression being exclusively tied to loot boxes, and the only reason i bought Shadow of War was because i got it for 50% off before launch from GMG (otherwise i would have…

Eeeeeh. Games that lock the “true” ending behind some form of in-game achievement isn’t anything new. Arkham Knight’s certainly not the first.

If they didn’t think they were going to be effective I doubt they would have put them in the game...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you don’t seem like the type of person who would buy loot boxes under normal circumstances, were it not for their job. These sorts of schemes are not meant to sway those who can resist this…

Also, who’s making all these chests? And out of such expensive and valuable materials. What moron orc is sitting around forging stockpiles of mithril into war chests when that same mithril could be making insanely useful weapons and armor?

Mobile games don’t cost $60 though.

Then that just makes me feel more like this feature is designed just to prey on those with gambling addictions or poor impulse control. It’s still predatory even if you feel like you can resist, because there’s always going to be some poor sap who can’t.

It’s nonsense, the only reason to have these microtransactions in the game is to make more money on top of what they’re already making.

I think that’s what a lot of people will end up doing, honestly.

One could argue that Loot Boxes in these sort of single-player games are inherently nonsensical.

The people being “milked” are a much smaller portion of the population that isn’t, and yet they provide a much higher (relative to their size) and statistically significant portion of the profits for these types of skinner-box economies. Companies then design around this small percentage of players, making it as…

Silver War Chest, Gold War Chest, Mithril War Chest.

I think I’ll just go play something else and skip all this nonsense.

The only thing in that list that isn’t taken out of context as part of a larger comedy bit is “He defended Daniel Tosh after his rape jokes” - which he didn’t actually do. Almost everything else on the page is not some random hateful statements, but intentionally controversial things selectively taken from his standup…

Your mileage may vary.