>you own a bakery
>another bakery opens up across the street
>both your bakeries are equally successful
>you find out that at their bakery they offer fancy gift bags for take home purchases
>what's more is: they don't even know what kind of bag they get when they buy one. the patterns and designs are random
>for some reason this bothers you so you call the police
>the cops come and ask what's the problem
>you explain to them
>they laugh at you and politely ask you to never waste city resources like that ever again
>but then you see it
>a boy buys a gift bag hoping for a blue one
>he buys one but it's red
>he buys another and it's green
>another red one
>a pink one
>finally after several tries he gets a blue bag
>you tell the police "HE'S BEING EXPLOITED, THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL"
>they scoff at you and tell you that you should be so thankful that they both like your donuts more so they won't fine you for being an idiot
>this pisses you off to no end
>you go into the back and grab a wooden spoon and a large saucepan
>you go across the street and start banging your pan with the spoon and screaming "DON'T BUY GIFT BAGS HERE, IT'S NOT ETHICAL"
>even your most loyal customers think you're an idiot (despite some of them agreeing with you)
>one of them tells you to not worry about it and just tend to your bakery since their bakery's practices hardly affect you
>you wipe away the snot and tears
>"b-but i c-can't.. i-i have t-to tell them"
>everyone realizes you're a lost cause and call the police to take you home
>"b-but i wasn't d-doing anything illegal just l-like them!"
>they police assure you that you were not doing anything illegal but given the sum of recent events on your behalf, it's certain you have autism and need to be put down
>you promise to behave
>the cop driving does his best to ignore you as he's heard this before a million times
>it's apparent you'd sooner court death than behave rationally
>you're taken out of the car
>bang
Stop being retarded Yea Forums
Lootbox legislation will literally kill gaming
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nice food analogy you fat fuck
>murrican makes retarded food analogy to defend predatory monetization aimed at children
Why am I not surprised
(You)
oh nooo that sucks
Let them ban lootboxes.
such an awful analogy that i think you have to be intentionally shitposting. i have no horse in the race, but i have heard many many people say online sports games have become genuinely pay to win with lootboxes. and the byline of the kotaku article you posted a screenshot of is a stupid excuse, "how will they pay these license fees"
same fucking way they did before 2015
imagine actually typing out all this drivel
I guess the market will have to innovate to stay competitive, imagine that
If a game relies on gambling to make money then it's a bad game and the devs should go bankrupt.
>Sports games in danger
Good
Are these retards or shills? Why do I randomly see posts defending lootboxes on here? They aren't very constant either, almost like it's people on a schedule and not active posters here.
Imagine being so fat that you look at video games and think of food.
When is the ban taking place?
>actually defending loot boxes and massive corporations
What's wrong with you?
OP's the only person with sense in this thread
>LOOTBOXES BAD
>WHY? BECAUSE GAMBLING BAD
>WHY GAMBLING BAD? BECAUSE UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>UHHHHH MUH CHILDREN
They're trolls. They think they're being funny.
>be bakery manager
>bakery is doing really well and customers love my baked goods
>want more profit because #yolosweg
>decide to sell base ingredients so people can make their own products
>stop selling full products
>introduce an option where people can buy ingredients in random mystery boxes
>this is the only way to get certain elements for making their own versions of the products that I used to sell
except in your delusional scenario the boy is supposed to be the one reporting the bakery, not another bakery.
slot machine babbies btfo
>unironically defending lootboxes
>unironically defending sports shit
>unironically making food analogies
>unironically typing all that out
Same shitty thread with the same shitty image in the op.
>Lootbox legislation will literally kill gaming
Good.
delet
cute and funny duck
Hey Dobson. How's life treating you?
>how else are those billion dollar licenses paid
By not paying them
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>"A birthday cake? Sorry, but we only sell mystery pastry boxes now. You have a chance to get a birthday cake though!"
>"But I just got a doughnut."
>"WOW ENTITLED CUSTOMERS JUST NEED TO ALL DIE HOLY SHIT WE'RE BRANCHING OUT TO A MORE INCLUSIVE AUDIENCE"
I want to fuck this middle aged man
tl;dr
>I suck corporate cock because I can't imagine the poor, poor indie company known as Electronic Arts selling games for money like every other video game company instead of trying to push e-poker onto minors.
>food analogy
You never got mad as a kid when your happy meal contained a toy you already had?
Hahaha no it wont retard.
It did not kill games in the 80s up to the 90s.
Didn't read. Death to EA and lootboxes. If it kills gaming as a whole, then so be it.
>sports games die
>casuals leave the market en masse because that's all they play
>consoles sell a quarter of what they did previously
>EA stops being propped up by their sports department and goes bankrupt
Imagine thinking there's any downside to this.
Gambling bad because there's no metric to how much you have to spend in order to make progress in the video game. It's real-money gambling for your electronic content in an environment where you're not told the odds (which is, by law, required for any gambling establishment)
>western gaming dies
>implying that's a bad thing
>you have to spend in order to make progress in the video game
Do you even play video games? Because that's clearly not how it works. Lootboxes are an optional bit of fun on the side, you don't have to spend money in order to progress at all.
There is nothing fun about predatory monetization practices you retarded shill.
sports game niggers deserve lootboxes
i honestly cant comprehend how someone would willingly buy a game where you need to shell out half your paycheck to not autolose
the jews deserve the shekels here just for how retarded sports game niggers are
Actually, it's more like
>Other bakery's bread is shit, but all your usual customers go there to get gift bags
>So you start offering gift bags too, but you don't have time to bake properly so your bread is now shit too
>The few customers that stayed loyal to you start complaining
>You laugh and tell them not to worry because it hardly affects them
>Buys a skill or level boost
heh, looks like I've made alot of progress
funny that the only worthwhile sports games aren't the annualised lootbox-filled big license games
iv never met a sports game fan that wasnt either inbred or melanin enriched
But it was ironically so it's okay
daily reminder to ignore shills
micro transactions are predatory and rob the consumer of the right to vote with their wallet
and that's a good thing
fuck gambling and fuck microtransactions
maybe games will get some fucking soul again
>Purchase game for 60 dollars
>A shit ton of content is locked behind a lootbox system that requires you to pay more money to have a CHANCE at unlocking any of it
Gambling in and of itself is not bad, when it is the entirety of the product (though even in such cases it should be regulated in terms of how accessible it is to minors). But when you charge the consumer for a product and then deny him access to everything that product entails unless he coughs up more money (and even then he is not guaranteed to get access to the content he wants), that's when it becomes absolutely ridiculous and deserves to be shut down. "You can earn it by playing the game!" is not an argument when these games are designed to take a better part of your life to grind everything in, so as to incentivize spending real money.
Friendly reminder "content" in video games is arbitrary and loot boxes are a condensed barebones reward loop that is at the core of pretty much every video game.
Regulating lootboxes hands power away from the individual to decide what's best for them in a completely subjective realm over to a group of people who don't care in the slightest about you or your demands.
>Do you even play video games? Because that's clearly not how it works.
Okay, post the odds required to gain any particular item in any game with lootboxes or you're full of shit.
>you don't have to spend money in order to progress at all.
Post the odds of gaining a specific player in NBA 2019 or you're full of shit.
If you can't tell us what the odds are right now for gaining any specific player/item/object in any of these games, then you're talking out of your ass. You wouldn't walk up to a roulette table that didn't have the odds clearly printed on it, but you'll buy lootboxes which have no odds and no metric to how long it would take to gain a specific item that you're required to go through lootboxes to get.
I think you've been living under a rock or don't understand what lootboxes are.
>game offers a fun way to acquire skins
>OH MY GOD I'M LITERALLY BEING RAPED BY THE CORPORATIONS!!!1! PREDATORY PREDATORY IT'S PREDATORY HELP ME VALVE IS LITERALLY RAPING ME THEY'RE PREDATORS!!!1
What's with the recent surge in bugposting?
gambling is bad because it exploits mentally vulnerable people into wasting money for the scammer's benefit
Imagine being so desperate to be a contrarian you defend lootboxes
This is what happens to people raised by imageboards. Take a good look
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>regulating Vegas hands power away from the individual to decide what's best for them!!!!!! It's not fair that those poor dealers have to tell people what the odds are at their table!
Eat shit and die
>you have to get every single player to progress
>you must know the odds at all times or else it's le predatory
>No more gacha shit
>No more yearly sports shit
>No more publishers cutting out finished content to hide behind lootboxes in good games
>Possibly the death of EA, mobile, and gacha in general
Literally every single thing that can happen from this is a win for us. You only lose out if you hold stock in a lootbox churning publisher or are a subhuman game journo that makes their living being a corporate drone.
Good let gaming return to zero so it can become good again. Stupid fucking shill.
literally just dont be retarded and it doesnt affect you
Is this an out of season april fools joke?
Imagine being such a sheep that you hate lootboxes just because the crowd does.
This is what happens to people raised by reddit. Take a good look.
Good maybe I'll be free at last
>Stop being retarded Yea Forums
you first, obese mongoloid
Commies have been seeking ways to undermine video games for years now. The feminism angle ran out of steam, now they are running with "Think of the children!!!111".
wrong, battlefront 2 was specifically designed to require dozens of hours of grinding to unlock single characters in order to coax you into buying lootboxes
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I hate lootboxes because they promote games as service cancer you retard.
When I first got here I was already 18. This was 10 years ago. The age limit is not a joke, it's to prevent children like you to grow up cynical and retarded.
Fact: lootboxes are a problem for people who buy them and nobody else.
You never gamble if you don't know the odds, brainlet shitposter
What kind of reddicuck green text is this lmao, is this moron trying to argue that lootboxes are cool or something?
>disallowing aggressive anti-consumerism will literally be the death of gaming
Sure thing Tim Sweeny.
>>you have to get every single player to progress
You didn't answer the question, what are the odds of gaining a specific player? Any specific player.
You need players to progress. That's kind of the fucking point of the NBA game, it's a management sim.
>>you must know the odds at all times or else it's le predatory
Yes it is
www.gambling-law-us.com
gaming.nv.gov
onlinegambling.com
With most kinds of gambling, it's actually considered theft if you do not know the odds. The law does not know a functional difference between someone stealing from you and a gambling establishment giving you a bet which you do not know the odds.
They're literally stealing from you and you have your head too far up your ass to care.
You're uneducated, dumb, and most of all gullible. Please educate yourself before you spend money on magic beans.
For being the gigakikes that they both are, I thought the NCAA and EA would surely be able to scheme up some way to jew the players out of their own likenesses.
>Activision is already getting fucked with their current situation
>EA relies on sportsniggers to prop up their ass
Come on you fucking politicians, pass this bill asap so I can see EA and Activision die in my lifetime.
They drastically change gameplay loops to promote lootboxes you retard faggot. They lock content within it that you'd normally unlock through gameplay
How much of a corporate bootlicker do you have to be to defend having less ownership of the products you buy
Not when entire game companies build everything around them. This is how we get Overwatch and Diablo Immortal from once good companies.
>posting a polygon headline and shilling for EA's predatory practices
I'd be ashamed if I were OP
>you should like buying lootboxes to own the commies
As a staunch capitalist, fuck you, corpo shill. I look forward to your future attempts at squirming your way into deregulation.
Trolls and shills. The bill gained bipartisan support and not many people disagree with regulating it so publishers are getting nervous.
Even then, it's a voluntary exchange.
The people who have a problem with lootboxes are the narcissists who demand everything in the world cater to their whims. All too common in the social media generation.
good to know you most definitely held this view before october 2017
Why would you buy lootboxes for a game you know is getting replaced in years time? Are sports games fans even functioning people?
ladies and gentlemen, a post more retarded than "JUST BEE URSELF VOTE WITH UR WOLLET BRO LMAO"
>Lootbox legislation will literally kill gaming
Yeah because they have to make actual games again instead preying on gambling addictions.
Why should he be? Look at all the replies his obvious bait got.
>please slide your big corporate cock down my throat master
>give me cummies and I'll give you moneys
Wow dude relax with that shit.
fpbp
If the ESRB had DONE THEIR FUCKING JOB than we wouldnt be here. Its necessary for this now because they didnt and wouldnt deal with it sooner.
>gambling
>fun way
>literally forcing people to grit their teeth in anger and frustration for not having access to to a thing they want
>risk having to pay anywhere from $1 to triple digits in order to acquire a useless fucking cosmetic
>causes obsessed people pay more than what the game is worth, in an attempt to fish that one shit they desperately want
>end up with several duplicates and shit no one wants in their quest to get what they want
>bonus points for making items that are LIMITED EDITION, in order to leech more money from obsessed people
>instead of just letting people browse a store and pick what they wantt, you make them roll a dice (several times)
>"""""fun""""" way
This is a copypasta from an earlier thread. Kill you'reself OP.
I keep asking myself how those sports games keep making money. Then I encounter a post like yours and immediately know the answer. You are what's wrong with and what will literally kill gaming, not that legislation.
there are people on this board who fall for the gacha meme, what do you expect?
You say imageboards but really it's just modern capitalist thinking run amok, these people are so indoctrinated that the very word "regulation" causes them to reel, they're not even business owners themselves, usually, they just know that they've constantly been told that the government is evil and that overreach is inevitable so obviously the only solution is unbridled capitalism. The bullshit has gotten to them so badly that I guarantee you I will get at least one reply calling me a communist or something stupid like that, as if the only people who could possibly call this out for what it is have to be on "the other side". The fact of the matter is that when businesses refuse to regulate themselves, and shit gets out of hand, government has to step in, or else we all lose. I don't want a future with lootboxes or gacha in every fucking game, but that's where we're heading.
>Lootbox legislation will literally kill gaming
>watch jewtube
>this guy spent 10k dollarydoos on fucking lootbox in fifa's yearly iteration
>NIGGA IS SURPRISED HE SPENT 10K
>nyah it's ok because I'm fucking rich nigga
This fuckers make EA float
fuck lootboxes
>thinly disguised food analogy
>you should like buying lootboxes to own the commies
Not at all, in a free market the individual decides what is best for themself. If you don't want to buy lootboxes. Don't buy them. Those that do, can. Everyone's happy.
You do not have a right to decide who someone else spends their own money.
>As a staunch capitalist
Why lie on the internet? You clearly aren't if you don't understand the very basic idea of capitalism.
I seriously hope this is pasta because if you unironically sat and typed this retarded food analogy out OP there's no hope left for you.
>Sports games in danger
Didn't they do pretty well in the 30 years before lootboxes became a thing?
Also OP is a faggot.
>run bakery
>your competition opens next door
>they run a casino-bakery outside of Vegas
>somehow this is legal because in their terms of service you cannot resell their products. License limiting your rights yo resell is gray area, forbidden outside or US.
>most of their products are crap, but one in a few million there is a golden doughnut.
>customers get shitty products
>the only way to compete is to imitate them
It is a loss-loss for everyone except lootboxes selling ones. Why are you willingly defending something that negatively affects you? Are you that thirsty for big fat corporate cock to ram you in the ass?
Remember the goal of this corporations is to make more money. If they don't make more money, they are good as dead to investors.