Article for thought

https://news.sky.com/story/video-game-loot-boxes-blamed-for-rise-in-young-problem-gamblers-11559402

I think people are starting to catch on.

Hopefully this will stop the trend.

 

I hope so too, this game has become just a lottery and that is just wrong. Even finding ship pieces comes down to a lottery, you can find 65 pieces or 5000 from a box. Why on earth don't they just give everyone the same?

If I could buy the new ship for a tenner, I would. If I could buy a epic sniper for a fiver, I would. The prices and the whole lottery type system for everything will keep people from spending money, whereas they think they make more money this way. I doubt that and if they do, it is over the back of people who unwillingly spent more than they wanted to find something they need. Which might never happen. That is why more and more people get signs of addiction and that is not good. I would get in to trouble with my conscious working like that.

If I go to a shop I want to know what I buy, not when I need a watch and I have to buy a box with an unknown content and hope it holds a watch, but when I open it is holds sunglasses, next one has women's pyjama in it, then next has some stroopwafels (which is always nice) and finally after having bought 40 boxes I get a watch, but it is for kids.

Edited it a bit today.

Regards,
Flint

 

Which is nuts because their home country is investigating this very subject. https://www.altchar.com/games-news/576661/finland-launches-investigation-into-loot-boxes

 

They seem to milk it to the very end when new laws are being implemented.

 

Wonder if their under investigation too?

 

Maybe it's the one final push before they're put in check.