You made a general statement. Don’t blame me for your poor communication. My post wasn’t even meant to be taken that seriously so maybe work on reading context as well. It was pretty jokey joke.

I wasn’t replying to the article I was replying to you. You said their weren’t any games where you could kill kids, then I pointed out there were lots. What does that have to do with the article at all? Seems like you made a bunch of assumptions about what I was saying and are now mad that I’m not agreeing with them.…

Also should point out you can absolutely can kill the kid robots in nier (how traumatizing it is is irrelevant you still kill them) and the age of most street thugs you fight in side scrollers like double dragon are depicted as teenagers and they also have guns you can shoot them with so you do the math. Also nice…

You asked which games let you kill kids not which games let you kill kids in a realistic manner at a school. (Also I’m talking JRPGs and stuff not really the kinds of games getting banned on steam.) It was just a fun post anyways, but still, shifting the goal posts like that is pretty lame.

Quite a bit. For one a lot of games with an anime aesthetic tend to have the large portion of their cast both protagonists and antagonists (whom you kill) as minors. You have horror games like dead space where evil forces kill babies only for you to kill their reanimated bodies. You have ‘child murder sims’ like limbo…

The worst part of the whole mess is that they fix things so slow that by the time they get it in a good state the next expansion will be right around the corner and no one will care anymore. I don’t know how they’ve gummed up their engine but it’s ridiculous that it takes so long compared to other games. Even simple…

It’s honestly a smart move. Just swearing alone is a pretty lazy form of humor anyways. He’ll probably be able to evolve his performance more without using it as a crutch. I think the people upset are just mad because they use other’s bad behavior to justify their own. Seeing someone else reflect on their actions…

Okay so I got to go but looking at your points. You keep bringing up non sequiturs that have not had there status challenged and asking if it’s illegal the answer is I don’t know so they’re bad arguments. They have value to everyone involved hence they are sufficient reward.

The game does partly assign value through rarity. Look at any set price in the secondary market and you’ll see it correlates heavily to this. So yes, actually it does. Scarcity and demand both determine market forces and the game is in control of both. So no the game isn’t completely absolved of assigning value.

Except the penny sticker does work because by your example all they’d need to do is to advertise the ticket as win anything from a penny sticker up to 10,000,000 dollars and people would be buying upfront an item that could give them exactly what it says. The reason blind boxes aren’t covered is because they don’t…

You’re making a fallacious assumption that the items in the box are the same value as the box. The market place very much disagrees. Those items have variable value outside the box. That variable value makes it gambling, in part. As I’ve said repeatedly now, getting something doesn’t stop it from being gambling or…

Permanency isn’t really as big of an issue as it may seem. After all people spend loads of money on a good wine, a good dinner, a vacation. All very limited experiences. Even something like a car or electronics has an upper limit on shelf life. All of these have been used as the prizes for various forms of gambling.…

As I’ve stated before getting something every time is not sufficient to make it not count as gambling. If it were every lottery could simply hand out penny stickers to the loser and bypass gambling laws entirely. The truth is those games have been operating in a legal grey area and are entirely skirting the line. In…

There’s definitely loss when you spend a lot of money on loot boxes and end up with nothing you want. The idea that there is always a payout doesn’t hold up either as scratch tickets could just give out penny stickers instead of a you lose and bypass gambling law entirely.

Gambling isn’t so narrowly defined as only referring to ‘betting on the outcome of a game of chance.’ Scratch tickets, for example, are something you buy that then reveals what items or money you receive, randomly determined by draw, and is still most definitely gambling.