NOOOO YOU CAN'T USE MICROTRANSACTIONS DEVELOPERS SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO PROFIT FROM GAMES THEY'RE WORKS OF ART

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YOU SHOULD P-PAY MONEY FOR GAMES THAT ARE NOTHING MORE THAN PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE WITH DOPAMINE INCENTIVES FOR YOU TO OPEN YOUR WALLET

>*Footsteps*
>"OH NO, HE IS COMMING"
>*Footsteps getting closer*
>"MY PAID SHITPOSTBOTS WILL SCARE HIM AWAY WITH SHITTALKING"
>*Shitpostbots launch their insults but CD-PROJECT-RED only start smiling because it doesent work on him*
>"NOOOOOOO I PAID FOR THEM WITH ALL MONEY FROM DUNGEON KEEPER ONLINE AND STARWARS BATTLEFRONT, HIS REPUTATION IS TOO STRONG"
>*Footsteps are getting even closer*
>"HE IS ABOUT TO CLEAVE ME WITH CYBERPUNK!!!! ITS FUCKING OVER, MY MICROTRANSACTIONS, MY DLC, MY SJW PROPAGANDA. HE WILL END THEM ALL!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

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Microtransactions are okay for cosmetics
Microtransactions for anything else is cancer see gachashit and lootboxes

no they fucking aren't

polan natzee.REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>"damn, I have no argument!"
>"I know, I'll call him a [political position I don't like], even if it's not the position he holds!"

Publishers profit from the microtransactions. Devs generally don't see a cent.

"Doing it for the art" is a figure of speech, it does not mean the work is literally art you retarded ESL SEAmonkey zulu nigger.

why on fucking earth did you make this thread

Developers already profit from their games. That's what the $60 price tag is for

Great arguments fellow anons, but you see this Wojak? I'm going to take all your opinions and put them next to this angry wojak.

>REEEEEE NO LOOTBOXES REEEEEE

Woah! Calm down there guy! You sure are silly! Now me, being the level headed and calm person, am clearly the victor in this confrontation. How do you respond to that?

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>entertainment can't be art
Based retard.

without restoring to some bullshit legalese, explain to me as if I'm 5 years old how loot boxes differ from a scratch off lottery ticket.

Don't you love it when libertarians throw a fit about companies doing what they want and consumers supporting them?

>muh laissez-faire market
grow up conservative cuck and get off the corporate cock.

>developers
>seeing a dime off lootboxes
That shit goes straight into exec and shareholder pockets

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> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUY THE GAME BUY THE LOOTBOXES STOP COMPLAINING BUY BUY BUY BUY CONSUME PURCHASE BUY SPEND YOUR MONEY YOU CAN'T SHIT ON THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED STOP IT

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>Games with Microtransactions
>Works of art
lol

His strawman is "games are works of art, they shouldn't have mtx".

because youre guaranteed to win something right?

I dont really give two fucks and am not pro loot box but thats the explanation in my head.

this. It's why the gaming industry has exploded in popularity but games have only gotten stupider and shittier as time went on. It's an unsustainable model and everyone will be better off if a massive correction happens sooner rather than later.

>Conservative corporations
Imagine being stuck in the 90s mentally like this retard.

you always win the ticket too, you at the very least get a piece of paper, which is usually more valuable than the trash a lootbox contains because it is actually real and can be used for at least a few things rendering it at least somewhat valueble.

there are also several ways to win in scratch offs too, it's not an all or nothing affair.

tell me why lootboxes are good for the industry?

hardmode: not mentioning profits, money or budget

>A Smash thread died for this

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Good.

Yea Forums in a single image

>HOW DARE YOU SPEND MONEY ON THINGS I DON'T LIKE WE NEED TO BAN THIS NOWWWW! BIG DADDY GUBMINT PLEASE MAKE LOOT BOXES ILLEGAL NOW NOW NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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>Yeah I support my favourite developers through the means they provide. You have an issue with that?

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Lick boot

>ironic meta-tier trolling
Hey let me spend like 10 dollars on a hat for this game I'll drop in an instant if my friends find something decent to play.

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>reading comprehension

Their success give devs with bigger IPs a good excuse to pump out official ecchi lewds to prey on horny teens.

honest question

why do we not sell lottery tickets to minors then?

That's a good question actually, why not?

Try selling a good game instead of a heap of shit plus accessories.

All entertainment is art, and there is a difference between good and bad art.

actual retard

because like it or not there are laws on the book that forbid it, if you don't like that then that is absolutely fine and i encourage you to call your congressman and let him know.

now, I'll ask you the question i ask everyone and never get a real answer to, how is a lootbox fundamentally different from a lottery ticket?

>implying it's the developers who profit and not the corporation

If you think lootboxes are gambling you're a retard. It's like booster packs for yugioh cards.

>wanting the government to get involved in games
In the nations they do such as Australia and Germany, the have censored many types of content in them. Fuck off leftist cunt.

>ask "what's the justification for lawmakers to forbid X?"
>answer: cuz it's da law lol
Come the fuck on.

So this is the type of person who actually defends microtransactions? Talk about cringe

>it's like booster packs
i can go buy a Charizard right now if i want, i pay for a Charizard and that's what i get

making people pay a hundred dollars just to get one mediocre gun or skin along with a bunch of trash they didn't want and is essentially worthless to them is absolutely nothing like a booster pack that contains physical items that are easily resold.

if you want to charge a hundred dollars to get one stupid item then just charge a hundred dollars for it, don't pretend like these publishers don't know exactly what the they are doing.

you don't have to like it, but if you want to live in society then you live by the law, if you don't like the laws then change it or just shut up, you don't get an excuse to break it just because you don't like it and you don't get to refine words just because you want to circumvent it either.

you didn't answer my question.

Aggressive microtransactions in 60$ games are cancer and people buying this shit are retards.

>it's just like booster packs
You're probably the kind of retard that buys digital downloads on console

and what makes you say that

Meant for

Got an idea user, what about we cut out the content of a fullprice game.
they could sell the rest of the content as dlc and charge about 200$ for the complete game.
that sure will save the poor devs

>wojak cancer
>terrible thread
Every time.

In general, minors aren't allowed to do things because they are assumed to be mentally or biologically incapable of doing them without significant risk to their person.

Gambling involves emotional compulsion and money. Minors are considered to have little to no emotional control (for several reasons beyond this discussion) and usually don't understand money. Because of considerations like this, people just made it illegal. If we're talking about the USA, then it's also a fairly puritanical society deciding it has to protect the children from the debauchery of blackjack and craps.

Companies like money and they know parents will spend it in the kids, so they create system as close to gambling as possible to bring in almost as much cash without breaking the law.

What I really don't get is why so many adults spend so much money on this stuff. 20 bucks gets a bottle of cheap liquor and that's why more fun than a new skin in whatever Skinner box people play now.

I meant "so they create systems" and "that's way more fun". Got distracted at the end, sorry for the gibberish. Also if you aren't a psych nerd, a Skinner box is something that trains a rat to perform a repetitive task over and over. That might be important too.

Nice, then we could cut story and sell them $60 per episode