I think my favorite thing in this is all of the—I guess, “lefty”?—Rick & Morty fans who think the fandom suddenly became toxic, when it was almost certainly toxic all along. Like, sorry, but Adult Swim isn’t your exclusive domain. Anyone can watch (and they do).

Yeah, I’m getting a bit tired of the “why did the men in Hollywood do nothing about this?” argument, too. So these men (who, like you say, also would have had something to lose in the deal ... men aren’t born impervious to career trauma, after all) were supposed to just drag the private allegations of female…

Oh I know exactly what your argument is. But it all comes back to the Magic Gathering/Pokemon Cards argument. These stuff has been around for ages. I remember purchasing upper-deck sports card packs when I was young and most of times ends up with a pack of trash.

Board games like Monopoly has a card drawing element as well.

And Boston on weeknights is pretty much closed by midnight.

Then why bother even raising that point?

I don’t get it. Did he grow up on a farm or something? He’s acting like this is Rumspringa or some shit.

The difference is that this “feature” isn’t just dropped into baseball cards. Everyone knows that that’s what the entire premise of baseball cards is. These video games with loot box systems have core experiences that are completely unrelated to that feature, and the companies go out of their way to avoid talking…

Focusing on the “children” aspect is missing the forest for the trees. My argument doesn’t hinge on that point.

I know what your reply was and I don’t know why you keep jumping back to it - my comments have NOTHING to do with Government involvement, either.

There’s also the point Jim Sterling brings up, where more and more it seems like games aren’t just choosing one such avenue and running with it, but are building in basically every “feature” you can imagine that is explicitly designed to line their pockets. They’ll have loot crates, 3 different kinds of “currency,”…

I don’t think we should give two shits that the publishers don’t give two shits about us. I’m as liberal pinko commie nanny-stater as they get, but even I think the solution is laissez faire capitalism: don’t buy it, and it might go away.

It’s absurd because they wouldn’t arbitrarily do such a thing that would result in the rating system falling apart.

That is an absurd statement.

Y’know, if critics that used scores added rules that automatically detracted a point or two from any game with a loot box system, the whole concept would disappear overnight. Designers won’t go risking the metacritic score.

If players feel they are being disrespected or a game is not good for them, they need to stop playing, they do NOT need the government to prevent them from playing.

“do you think it’s respectful toward the audience” wtf does this even mean??????

Sorry, maybe its just my job as a lawyer, but acknowledging the law and realities of a situation isn’t “excessive concern with minor details and rules” but maybe thats just me....and the courts....and legislatures.....and industry regulators....and the investors that make finance these companies and their games…

Someone lacking the control to stop buying imaginary digital toy outfits is on them.

Nah its not pedantic at all.