The EA Loot Box Drama Thread

[Zero Kirby]

Lootboxes are gambling. In situations where you can outright buy them, you are paying real money to bet on a randomized outcome.

Hey, if Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver removed the slot machines because that's gambling even though you can't spend real money, then lootboxes (which are basically slot machines that do not look like slot machines) should be regulated.

I don't even have a problem with lootboxes the concept because they can be done fine enough. I've played a lot of Uncharted 4, which has lootboxes, but you can also just buy whatever skins or accessories you want outright instead of gambling should you wish, but if you do go the lootbox route, you at least can't get dupes (and you can actually reasonably expect to earn enough in-game currency by actually playing the game to open some without spending money). But practices where companies are actually basically forcing you to spend on them either through making getting them naturally take much longer than is reasonable, or intentionally pairing you against people who have opened far more lootboxes in order to convince you to spend more because hey look at that guy's stuff, is disgusting. It is taking advantage of that natural human instinct of "hey that person has things I don't now I want that thing".

Adults can fight that off a lot better than children can.

Falcon Punch is the result of the Sun heating fists. It drives the Blue Falcon. Heating causes destruction of water into the pain, where it then hurts, creating rain. Rain creates flowing water in tears, which can then be converted into other forms through more pain.



This fight has only just begun...