You can still buy PSN/Xbox/Steam credit with cash at retailers. So you don’t necessarily need a credit card to pay for Microtransactions in games. Kids can just save up their allowances to buy credit at stores.

I guess you’re not familiar with the fact that the world is full of irresponsible parents with either too much money and/or like to blame others for their mistakes.

You know, it’s quite fitting that EA would be the one to over-extend and get actual politicians to look into this loot box bullshit. Congrats to them for being so horrible that people finally noticed.

well the thing with things like MTG and baseball cards are that you are buying a physical item(s) which you are then fully able to trade/sell to others. Most, if not all, of the loot box systems games use do not have any way to trade items with other players to get the skin/whatever you want, and also all stuff from…

I think the difference is that People playing MTG or things like that know from the very beginning what they are getting into and it is an intrinsic part of the game and I assume it is F2P other than buying packs, whereas EA is trying to do shit surreptitiously.

“It’s a trap”.

Hell, I’m not even OK with just 3D rendered mechs, either. There is very little in anime that’s more beautiful than fully hand-drawn machinery.

No it’s not similar at all.

I don’t know.. it’s a full 3D rendered anime... I’m ok with Mech animes rendering the mechs in 3D, but human characters too? That’s plain lazy.

“What you doing in your game today? Commenting on the sexual orientation of other men or perhaps suggesting their mothers are of illrepute?”
“Nah, I’m going to try to make elaborate first contact with NPC aliens with no hope if it working but doing so makes me feel more whole as a person.”
“...Oh... I guess you can ALSO…

This is a fantastic opportunity for game devs to reward their player community for creative thinking while also generating great press for their game.

This is why I love gaming. To go to places I’ve not been, to see things I’ve not seen, and to meet people who do all kinds of cool shit I never would have thought of trying. Hope the devs reward this behavior in some way.

FYI its about 40 hours of gameplay to unlock each character.

When they said DLC would be free, I knew there would be a catch... There’s always a catch.

Journeys are generally in service of the destination.

I always hear this when people defend bad endings. Don’t get me wrong, the journey DOES matter, but you have to stick the ending as well.

Yeah but it was an ending that went “that journey meant nothing HAHAHAHAHAHAHA”.