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EA and Epic Games
| Because people swallow the colorful pills.
| Kinder eggs don't have variable prices or tiers of goods and they(hopefully) don't have a black market of rare items
Did I also mention that the kinder egg comes with the same chocolate every time? What do lootboxes offer that's invariable to add value to them?
And kinder eggs are illegal in the US so that argument is only helping them outside of great 'murica
| Kinder Eggs are so expensive most parents know to keep their kids the heck away from then. Kids can buy loot boxes just by sneaking a peek at their parents' credit card and no one's gonna bat an eye if they buy dozens at once
| >>573265 Ingots and prizeless eggs too!
There are fake ones as well. Ashens has taught me a lot of useful things.
| because EA are faggots and lootboxes are the most anticonsumerist way of making money quick, has chances for good stuff but mostly stuff worth nothing.
You know just like a slot machine.
| >>573840
Yeah, they lack the lethal aspect which filters out children unworthy of its mystical plastic surprise
| I think it's time to man up and say it:
Some people have addictive personalities and exploiting this is just evil. Would you givea junkie his fix anytime he needs it and then wait for him to turn his life around? No, because he's a fucking addict. He will never stop seeking that hit unless physically forced to.
Same goes for gambling, and loot boxes are exactly that. Call them surprise mechanics or whatever, but it's exploiting the addictive personality of some people to get them >
| To spend as much money as possible on a fucking game. You can't expect them to stop the same way you cant expect a junkie to decide to stop.
Gambling must be allowed because most people are fucking retarded and will never get enough of it.
Now why the heck would you want children exposed to this?
Lootboxes must be banned.
| I don't think gambling(and
by extent lootboxes) in games should be banned.
But it should warrant an AO rating and a warning about the nature of the game, like it's done with porn games
| I neeeeeed metro exodus in korea right nowwwww I can't wait a hole year!
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| They say loot boxes are like kinder Eggs so why would you want to ban them?