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Credit to Valken at Guru3d for the thread.
From PC Gamer:
Earlier this week, NBA 2K19 developer 2K asked players to "contact local government" about the Belgian loot box ban. Now, a senior producer at the company has told Trusted Reviews (via PCGamesN) that its games' Virtual Currency "is an unfortunate reality of modern gaming."
https://www.pcgamer.com/microtransactions-are-an-unfortunate-reality-of-modern-gaming-says-2k/
My reply over there:
Loot boxes exist because gamers want them because many (not all of course), modern gamers are lazy entitled cnuts with more money than brains.
I'm an older gamer so I've seen the industry grow from pong clones up, back in the day if you wanted something in a game you really didn't mind grinding to get it because getting something through work was its own reward, modern "kids" are spoiled, lazy and entitled and have no concept of earning something through work and patience, that applies not just to gaming of course but everything else. Generations of bad parenting certainly helped contribute to that of course.
EA make $100m from Fifa's FUT card packs alone, that's a staggering amount of money which shows that it's vast numbers of people buying cards not just a small minority, of course they'll keep prioritising that to the detriment of the rest of the game as other companies are doing as well. FUT is only one example of course as it's the only pertinent game I'm interested in where loot boxes are part of it but the global annual market must be in the billions I'd imagine now?
From PC Gamer:
Earlier this week, NBA 2K19 developer 2K asked players to "contact local government" about the Belgian loot box ban. Now, a senior producer at the company has told Trusted Reviews (via PCGamesN) that its games' Virtual Currency "is an unfortunate reality of modern gaming."
https://www.pcgamer.com/microtransactions-are-an-unfortunate-reality-of-modern-gaming-says-2k/
My reply over there:
Loot boxes exist because gamers want them because many (not all of course), modern gamers are lazy entitled cnuts with more money than brains.
I'm an older gamer so I've seen the industry grow from pong clones up, back in the day if you wanted something in a game you really didn't mind grinding to get it because getting something through work was its own reward, modern "kids" are spoiled, lazy and entitled and have no concept of earning something through work and patience, that applies not just to gaming of course but everything else. Generations of bad parenting certainly helped contribute to that of course.
EA make $100m from Fifa's FUT card packs alone, that's a staggering amount of money which shows that it's vast numbers of people buying cards not just a small minority, of course they'll keep prioritising that to the detriment of the rest of the game as other companies are doing as well. FUT is only one example of course as it's the only pertinent game I'm interested in where loot boxes are part of it but the global annual market must be in the billions I'd imagine now?