American senator proposes bill against loot boxes in games
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fantaskarsef
Somebody's waiting for his lobbying check. 🙄
When do people realise that maybe it's the parents that's supposed to protect their kids form stuff like that...
Fox2232
Would be nice. It is one thing I really dislike. And it is out of control. Hey Bethesda... Blades... not even released...
$25 for chest with just one legendary piece of gear.
$125 Special currency enabling you to buy 5 of chests above and little bonus in In-Game-Currency.
And to write this, I started game which took 6 attempts as it would not even log in due to server issues. That's the state of a PC based company and their gold rush on android.
If I were to write about companies who based their income primarily from android, I saw cases where you could buy $1000 packages and getting "upgrades" to final stage of buildings will cost you like $3000, or you'll wait for 2 years. And there are games where you spend $15000 and still not have everything there is to have for single character. (And all those mentioned things are unethical pay-to-win things.)
If this kind of $h*7 goes away in US, maybe someone gets enough guts to do same in here.
@fantaskarsef : My problem is not about kids spending. That's as you wrote responsibility of their parents. What I do not like is pay-to-win as that always results in much worse game that it could have been.
War child
I'm waiting for a senator to step in and stop RSI from selling more and more vehicles in Star Citizen. Maybe then they will focus on actual game play, not in game fluff.
Their vehicle catalog is big enough.
But limiting loot boxes to under 18 prohibition isn't good enough. Younger generation are far smarter than before, and will easily bypass any age restrictions.
Parents can do what they can, but put simply, in todays tech, children are often smarter and more tech savvy
Phill-7
I like the man. It's a step in the right direction.
fantaskarsef
cryohellinc
Definitely a step in the right direction. Looking forward to seeing more on this development.
sverek
Not knowing what you going to get is the issue imo.
Loot boxes are gambling and industry is being built around it. Sad thing is, I don't think majority wants to revert to pay for what you want style anymore.
Most gamers just loves spending money and having moment of hope it will get something really rare.
Having a price tag on an item, buy it, use it... just lacks fun and amusement at this point. We don't pay for the item anymore, we just like throwing moneys away.
At this point, it's just like shopping, cigarettes, alcohol or whatever people do to distract themselves.
American senator just trying to get traction and visibility. The issue is people.
Please, introduce me to a senator that wants to propose a bill against alcohol.
lucidus
Not a fan of governments interfering but predatory practices need to be shut down.
Fox2232
@fantaskarsef : Well, Even cosmetic random lootboxing is not something I like. it is one thing I dislike on Path of Exile. But at least they have magnitude more of cosmetic microtransactions where you get exactly what you pay for without gambling.
I have one very grey zone. That's purchasing of additional characters/classes in game. Like MoBa where you get few free heroes and then you can either grind for new one or pay. As this is horizontal progression and therefore not directly p2w. At least not if done properly.
Btw. Albion Online which was released as pay to play + premium subscriptions (p2w character progression) is now f2p + something (I did not check details, yet).
=> I am mentioning it for those who skipped it for reason that game should either have one time payment or subscription payments, but never both. (Especially in such unforgiving game.)
nevcairiel
sverek
fantaskarsef
Fox2232
Venix
For decades the target of developing a game was to be fun, now on a lot of cases is just psychology to make you buy micro transactions and lootboxes , really if they are ever get banned once and for all it will be amazing!
fantaskarsef
mbk's post and watch the third video (while I was already aware of such concepts and didn't watch that video, I'm fairly sure it gives an idea of what I mean).
That's a general problem. For decades producing long lasting, high quality goods was the thing. These days it's commercials are all about how you feel buying a good, rather than how good such a purchased thing really is. See TheDeeGee
I'm fine with banning lootboxes, but i fear developers will find other ways to milk money.
Imagine ending up having to pay a monthly sub for each developer...
nevcairiel
nevcairiel
Picolete
The government should stay away from everything.
SHS