I didn't expect this to happen

I didn't expect this to happen...

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This is just “show the stun meter in Street Fighter V” band-aid.

No one cares that you can see how bad the chances are, they want the mechanic gone ENTIRELY. It still adds nothing good even if you know what you’re getting into.

They're self-regulating to deter the threat of banning lootboxes outright, which is absolutely what should fucking happen.
Don't fall for their tricks. These companies are not your allies.

Isn't that what gacha games already do?

like the man with a well done steak said to the waiter "sauce?"

I’m pretty sure it’s only legally required to show these chances in China.

that doesn't solve the problem.
It's still illegal for kids to play one armed bandit even if you tell them their odds.

This
Come on Nintendo have the biggest balls and ban All lootbox games
(As in games you pay real money for to win virtual goods so Xenoblade and Smash are ok) from your platform

>Nintendo
>loot boxes
What?
Are they all third party?

what about EA, Ubisoft and Activision? those are the ones that require this or this apply to any game that are released on their console?

They're required to show rates in Japan because of monkeygate

When Nintendo gets with the times they'll have to deal with it

Eh. Retarded gambling addicts finance shit that I get for free. I'm fine with it. No one who matters suffers.

Pocket Camp has the fortune cookies.

isnt getting new heroes in Fire Emblem Heroes at random? doesnt that make it a lootbox?

I have over a great many years watched this shit along with microtransactions and other "it's not that bad" faggotry get worse and worse and I have never once bought any of it.

How the fuck this even became a problem is beyond me. Who is buying this shit? I remember a few years ago people were complaining about Dragon Age: Awakening "only having 10 hours story content", now this. Who the fuck is paying money for this shit?

>Retarded gambling addicts finance shit that I get for free.
and in response the devs make it harder for you to play for free because they see the positive feedback of paying customers

This.

I don't know why Yea Forums is in an uproar over this, you guys aren't gambling addicts, or parents who let your children gamble, are you?

Someone needs to think of the addicts :(

It's saying the platform holders (Sony, Microsoft, nintendo) will require lootboxes on their platforms to show chance, not that someone is forcing them to show chances for their own lootboxes.
So all 3 will force Fortnite to disclose chances for winning shit pin their consoles.

Yes, but that's a mobile game. This is talking about consoles.

Roulette shows you the odds, albeit obfuscated by lots of numbers. Doesn't stop people gambling all their belongings away.

>Who the fuck is paying money for this shit?
Mobile shitters. You know the casuals that dont actually play video games.
Some fuckers here though are enabling this shit to continue.

What? No they don't. They just make more cosmetics that don't affect gameplay at all.
They're probably the people I'm talking about.
Sure, the dude making money off of them can. It's not my problem though. As an example, to keep playing SF4 I had to keep buying new versions. Now I get the balance for free and any character I want I've been able to buy. It's already saved me like a hundred dollars.

Yeah, but are those the REAL stats?

The mental gymnastics just makes me cringe.
>"Oh it's okay if it's only cosmetic and doesn't affect gameplay!!!"
I remember there being a metric dickload of cosmetic options in games without having to fucking buy them.

the gameplay suffers to make room for gambling mechanics, retards. They make the game more tedious to encourage people to get lootboxes and other types of micro-transactions.

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>the gameplay suffers to make room for gambling mechanics, retards
Then play an actual good game, idiot.

soon there will be no good games left

I was walking home to my crib when I smelled shit. I looked down and lo and behold I saw OP,

this is basically already required by law in most of asian countries
MTG also guarantees certain rarity cards for every pack
hardly a controversial decision, though if people really wanted loot boxes to be gone they'd push for changes in legal definition of gambling so any studio that wanted to make money through them would be forced to put a 18+ rating on their games and had to get license for gambling just like casinos
THEN they'd stop relying on loot boxes VERY quickly

>there are no good games left
>but also the video game market is over-saturated
pick one

The fact that the developers then realise they have to put in minimal effort for maxiumum profit. Why would you genuinley care about balancing a game and making sure every hero is viable to keep your playerbase there, when 10% of said playerbase is paying your wages? Why create new mechanics, expansions and ACTUAL content and charge $60 for it when you could ask some shitter to make a nice skin slap an orange font over it, call it legendary then put it in a box and charge $7 for it?

At the end of the day its the people who want good games that suffer from whales

I can't think of a single example affecting a game that wouldn't have been dogshit either way. It's just free cosmetics.

Games should have warnings for gambling mechanics on the box and before the game starts like horror games have gore warnings.

Pure speculation. Somehow I don't imagine the fucker doing 3d modelling is also in charge of balance.

can you elaborate? monkeygate search only yields some kangaroofucker and typical racial politics baiting

People who are prone to gambling addiction.

Won't make a difference. Retards will still keep spending money on that 1% chance.

what are the odds that they change the odds before revealing what they are to hide their 0.00001% drop rates for some items?

sure I'm glad gachafags are funding us Senran Kagura games

7even might be just right around the corner

>1% chance
More like

works in my games

>odds
this is so stupid. It's so easy to figure out.
>1% chance
Okay, buy 100 and you are GUARANTEED to get one. Keep brainlets out of games.

I can just see it now, retards out there are paying money for a 1/1000 chance to get the item they want.
That's just the most absurd shit I don't know why anyone participates in this shit.
I can't imagine paying a dollar at the grocery store in the hopes that I'll roll eggs but have it tilted to mostly cheap useless shit like plastic cups or something else worth a lot less than that dollar, then you keep paying again and again and again piling up cups and other very cheap shit before you actually get the eggs and it took lets say $13 dollars to buy a dozen eggs.
Who willingly participates in this ridiculous shit, why be a fucking sucker?

even if they change the odds it will still stay 0.00001% and they will blame RNG algorithm and nobody will have them accountable since they revealed the odds so it's all cool and dandy right

Feh shows it's odds and still fucks people over 9/10 times so it won't really change anything.

Alright. Look at Smite. The company needs money and what makes money? Not the guy that's playing their game for free, who might occasionally over time decide that they really like a certain god and buy a skin they really like for him. The one that makes money is the one that buys every new skin that comes out for whatever reason, and has to buy through the chests over and over, that are filled with fluff like ward skins, frames, voice packs and player icons.

Now that they've got guy two funding them, guy one is irrelevant; He isn't making the money. He can leave and nothing will change. Ergo, they become less reliant on interesting game mechanics and more reliant on quickly pumping out art department designs to fill the lootboxes.

These are not mutually exclusive

Literally casuals.

because for every person on Yea Forums not buying goyboxes there is 10000 normalfags that never leave facebook/twitter that do buy them
Yea Forums is a tiny tiny tiny minority

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They have to keep free players for the whales to play with dude. The free players are part of the product you offer the whale. Someone to style on. I played Smite and it received regular balance updates and I had a great time playing it.

nice. now lootboxes should require Adult rating and all in game microtransactions should require mature rating.

Except that's wrong. No whale will stick to a game without players. Player 1 is also important.

>implying this will do anything to stop the whales, who already know the odds are shit from experience but still do it anyways
or how about
>implying showing the odds will have any more effect then it does on lotto tickets, which is almost 0

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Thats not how odds work, you definitely could roll 100 times and not get it. Even if it was guaranteed, thats a hefty price. At that point you might as well go the steam market route and buy the skin outright

If you have a 1% chance of getting an item each time you open a loot box you are no where close to guaranteed to get one in 100 lootboxes.

B-B-B-BUT SELF REGULATION DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!! PLS DADDY GUBERMENT SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've often spoken out against being a corporateslave, but people insist continuing with their addiction and even have gotten depressed for not sinking their money into their favorite franchise for so long. Honestly, you can't help these people.

>you can't help these people.
There's no way to help addiction other than offer pathways for the person to leave and encorage them. Gachafags have to help so they're just gonna die tn their spiral.