I don’t go to a casino to gamble, I go to drink and socialize over a game of blackjack. Not gambling?
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Which is why regulation looks like a tragedy of the commons a lot - people who are adjacent to the regulation don’t want to be looked at so they’ll vociferously knock down anything that looks like it could touch them, even to the point of disallowing the regulation of anything anywhere.
Bingo - we as a society understand the need for vices. But part n parcel of accepting the need for vices is that we will also do a lot in our power to help people avoid them if they can. Basically - we’ll let you do your thing but we’re also going to remind people it’s a vice for a reason.
You care about the aesthetics of a medium where countless fans of the media do sexualize it - its a throwaway joke that really seemed to rankle you given how quickly you spat out ‘projection!’. Sorry I lumped you in with the pervs that perv on cartoons instead of taking you at face value as an aesthetic connoisseur of…
1. The user MAY be aware. Any state run Lottery will explicitly lay out the odds of overall odds of winning any prize and then specific prize levels. If imposing full disclosure on the discreet odds of any one item popping up from any one loot box is too tall a task for devs (it’s not, I promise) then they don’t get…
I watch children’s cartoons to laugh and thus the aesthetics of what characters should look like to comport with schema is non essential. I didn’t bring up why the way cartoons look rubs me the wrong way, you did.
The problem with looking at a ‘like’ thing such as MTG is that MTG is still confined to a lot of the same logistical issues they always had to contend with. While loot boxes are ‘like’ MTG packs in some ways, they are a different beast in the logistics and hurdles. So while MTG is a nice cousin to compare some things…
If it wasn’t for gaming, I woulda lost everything to gambling. Thank Nuffle for Blood Bowl!
I love products that defy inflation because of market forces.
That’s actually a good fucking reason to do it. Taxing gambling is morally right. Profits from a game of chance involving little to no ‘skill’ should be taxed like the games of chance they are - heavily. There is no sense in treating gambling itself as some mover of economic activity given it’s mostly zero-sum PvP or…
It’s worse than gambling, if you take that ‘it’s different’ tack. If there was an establishment that offered the reward of ‘Bar Scrip’ that was randomized in value for every 5 bucks you put down, yes, you could argue that the game is ‘Drinking’. But that’s as flimsy as amortizing your ‘free’ drinks from gambling based…
Predatory in this case would be the following:
https://kotaku.com/1830717757 My thoughts on the distinctions.
To some extent, yes, I do believe that while not all loot box schemas are the same, some are inherently worse than others and those are worth examining.
But see, there are distinctions in play here.
Maybe they should? I mean, you dangle that question out there like it’s a killshot but maybe it’s a conversation worth having especially in regards to the difference between digital and hard products.
Michael, don’t ever stop writing. Hilarious!
And then you fapped to this 5 panel?