If someone pays 60 dollars for a game they should get the whole game, no loot boxes, no micro transactions and defiantly not make it a gamble for content.
Well the heat is coming on to EA this release. Honestly I want to see them torched.

https://overclock3d.net/n...o_in-game_loot_boxes/1

-=Update=-
EA has caused the hammer to fall.

https://overclock3d.net/n...eeks_a_ban_in_europe/1

US Government now closes in on EA lootbox gambling practices
https://overclock3d.net/news/misc_hardware/us_legislator_calls_star_wars_battlefront_ii_s_loot_boxes_predatory/1
https://hexus.net/gaming/...-themed-online-casino/]https://hexus.net/gaming/...-themed-online-casino/

Good job EA, and other game companies you just got big brother involved on the world stage. 

Something needs to be done about this type of gambling. 
 

the_Scarlet_one

blackforce
Just stop playing games then you will not have a problem.

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Or developers can stop being stupid.

Didn't you know, we shouldn't dare question what greedy game publishers do.  We should just accept it, be good cows for them to milk.

Games with loot boxes should be rated Adult.
 
 

Game publishers with morals are hard to find. 

MSim
Game publishers with morals are hard to find. 

Only because the consumer has allowed them to get away with it for so long.

the_Scarlet_one

fearpoint
Games with loot boxes should be rated Adult.
 
 

Nc17 is the same thing, but parents are too stupid and let their kids do whatever they want. I can see why this is rated teen, since there is no blood, but the micro transactions should definitely rate it as adult because of needing a credit card.

Console manufacturers don't allow adult rated games which is why I think rating them as such would stop the practice cold, or at least for awhile until they figure out a work around that is. Nothing to do with parents any longer. Instead use the ESRB and the tyranny it brings to the industry to actually work in favor of gamers rather than just to be for show while being overtly obnoxious to consumers. e.g. age gates.......

donta1979
-=Update=-
Loot boxes in games will be banned in the EU soon. Belgium has ruled on it and well EA has caused the hammer to drop.

https://overclock3d.net/n...eeks_a_ban_in_europe/1

I can't see EA not having a team of people figuring out how to get around this. My guess is instead of selling loot boxes they will sell XP boosts instead so you earn a chance at a loot box faster. That way they are getting around "gambling for money" and instead the gamer is buying a item of value.

Hoggle
 
I can't see EA not having a team of people figuring out how to get around this. My guess is instead of selling loot boxes they will sell XP boosts instead so you earn a chance at a loot box faster. That way they are getting around "gambling for money" and instead the gamer is buying a item of value.

Or they will just out right sell items and you buy what you want... 

Hoggle

donta1979
-=Update=-
Loot boxes in games will be banned in the EU soon. Belgium has ruled on it and well EA has caused the hammer to drop.

https://overclock3d.net/n...eeks_a_ban_in_europe/1

I can't see EA not having a team of people figuring out how to get around this. My guess is instead of selling loot boxes they will sell XP boosts instead so you earn a chance at a loot box faster. That way they are getting around "gambling for money" and instead the gamer is buying a item of value.

+1.... its all semantics. Im sure they have all 50 of there lawyers in a emergency round table right now drafting the way around this.

One way or the other they will get their pound of flesh. I see the next AAA releases hitting $100 for standard edition either that or they put less into them.

Whats a lootbox!! One of the main reasons i dont play online these days, to many crybabies and pay to win adult entitled bull crap...  

Hoggle
Does anyone think EA wouldn't find a new way to get the money if we banned micro transactions? They would just release DLC that can be used in the original game that would make DLC owners clean the floor with people who stay with the base game unless they want to grind for hundreds of hours and it would be perfectly legal. Just a simple fact that EA doesn't becomes a good publisher because they are forced to change loot boxes. They will find a new way to make that same cash.
 
 They already do in BF1 with each new DLC theres new weapons that play better than the previous models that you can play in the base game.If you don't buy the DLC you don't get the new weapons.
EA has battle packs you can buy that have skins in them. You're never sure whats in them, if your trying for a certain skin your just gambling. Skins do not change game play they're just a visual item.
 

post edited by Nozler - 2017/11/25 08:11:51

I think valve has forgotten their game for so long :O