UK, House of lords call for loot boxes to be classified as gambling

I posted this on HeelVsBabyface video about the same… It’s pretty sad when you’re happy for government involvement into private business practices. But when those practices are so egregious, as loot boxes are, you have to root for this to happen. Hopefully the US will take it up next.

I’m sure something will pass in America, soon enough.
If we can stop listening to the medias attempt to start a race war long enough, anyway.
Now, let’s see how else governments start interfering with gaming in the name of protecting children.
We gave them way in. They will take full advantage.

I’m only against “Pay to Win” stuff.

If you pay only for skins and visual stuff, then I don’t care, you do you. I’m more of a single player anyway. :P

I never said EA couldn’t afford it, but they are in the business to make money, plain and simple.

Long answer… they had the mother of all high dollar licenses and multiple projects in the works with tons of folks employed across several studios with two games fueling interest in their efforts and expected to keep interest high for the mothership that were the films. They were releasing a sequel to a game that scored mixed reviews and was heavily discounted (which could’ve ate into sales), they were offering free substantial dlc packs over several years in a marketplace which sees prices tank within months for most games. Again, they’re in the business to make money, when has any CEO been all like…”We’re perfectly fine with only getting a certain amount for our product, and not all that we can”?

Now sure, they could’ve came up with a better way to nickel and dime the folks that have no problem with being nickel’d and dimed, but the lootboxes weren’t as bad as folks made them out to be. Did they exploit children and those with gambling addictions? No more than every other blind box thing out there that nobody raises a stink about in the collectibles aisle or card packs that have been around for decades. Kids buy stupid shit, always have, this is no different just because it’s in digital form. Parents should be more responsible in regards to monitoring their child’s spending habits just as much as they should be in what they play.

And yeah, BF2 actually does deserve some defending as under the old upgrade system (which was better btw once they adjusted the character and vehicle costs prerelease) it allowed you to improve other classes/characters/vehicles while you concentrated on whichever ones you were focused on at the time which made it quicker to level up stuff across the board. The only thing they offered which was truly “pay to win” was the preorder exclusive tier four cards as you normally couldn’t acquire those in game until you reached a certain level, but even that didn’t make much of a difference after a weekend or so after release when most of the player base had upgraded their stuff.

Now as far as the claim… “People like you are to gaming as woke culture is to movies.” I’m not the one virtue signaling, Kenneth…so that comparison doesn’t fly.

@Kenny_Cartman

Thread’s glitched, so if this posts multiple times…my bad?

But yeah…

I never said EA couldn’t afford it…but they are in the business to make money, plain and simple.

Long answer… they had the mother of all high dollar licenses and multiple projects in the works with tons of folks employed across several studios with two games fueling interest in their efforts and expected to keep interest high for the mothership that were the films. They were releasing a sequel to a game that scored mixed reviews and was heavily discounted (which could’ve ate into sales), they were offering free substantial dlc packs over several years in a marketplace which sees prices tank within months for most games. Again, they’re in the business to make money, when has any CEO been all like…”We’re perfectly fine with only getting a certain amount for our product, and not all that we can”?

Now sure, they could’ve came up with a better way to nickel and dime the folks that have no problem with being nickel’d and dimed, but the lootboxes weren’t as bad as folks made them out to be. Did they exploit children and those with gambling addictions? No more than every other blind box thing out there that nobody raises a stink about in the collectibles aisle or card packs that have been around for decades. Kids buy stupid shit, always have, this is no different just because it’s in digital form. Parents should be more responsible in regards to monitoring their child’s spending habits just as much as they should be in what they play.

And yeah, BF2 actually does deserve some defending as under the old upgrade system (which was better btw once they adjusted the character and vehicle costs prerelease) it allowed you to improve other classes/characters/vehicles while you concentrated on whichever ones you were focused on at the time which made it quicker to level up stuff across the board. The only thing they offered which was truly “pay to win” was the preorder exclusive tier four cards as you normally couldn’t acquire those in game until you reached a certain level, but even that didn’t make much of a difference after a weekend or so after release when most of the player base had upgraded their stuff.

Now as far as the claim… “People like you are to gaming as woke culture is to movies.” I’m not the one here virtue signaling, Kenneth…so that comparison doesn’t fly.

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