FTC investigating loot boxes in video games

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Uh oh…

Maybe time to stop the predatory practice that has become a cancer within the industry? You could once again be a trail blazing company Blizz, set the standard and be the first one to rid this game of this horrid system that is plaguing the industry and a generation of young kids for whom it has the potential to act as a gateway to a gambling addiction.

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Except you can earn lootboxes in OW, and if you dont get what you want you can buy it for gold. If you want more and faster COSMETICS THAT DOESNT AFFECT GAMEPLAY then you can buy them, I dont know why you would though.

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Predatory practice?
Gateway to a gambling addiction?

I think you have too much free time on your hands pal, holy guacamole of the exaggeration christ.

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Some pretty crap parenting if their children are developing a gambling addiction.

Do the kids have their own credit card or something?

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Expect 30$ skins, lol

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This.

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Lol here come the white knights. You realise plenty of fantastic parents have children who unfortunately become addicted to a range of things yes? Plus Blizzard has cash shops in all of their games now.

I personally have no real issue with it, I am an adult with a job, but when you have friends whose kids (otherwise normal, great kids) have stolen their credit cards to buy lootboxes, skins etc you start seeing that it is a potential problem problem. Or you act like a know it all and white knight for the gaming industry, I guess you do one of those two things…

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OP is 100% correct. This is not about “oh but if you don’t want to pay, you don’t have to”. There is a reason why Blizzard creates so many time limited and event-locked skins and triple their pricings on those skins.

Lootboxes and any luck based microtransactions shouldn’t be allowed in video games ESPECIALLY if they are time limited.

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If I had stolen My parents card when I was a child, My mother would have given me the belt.

Not blame a company for her kids lack of proper discipline

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Sorry to break your bubble but no, they aren’t.

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No, children of good families never do anything wrong because they already had perfect parents :slight_smile:
They are also imune to drugs, alcohol and gambling.

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It’s also super apparent on mobile / ipad kinds of games. The whole point is to try and get kids addicted and poach them of their parent’s money.

You could argue the parents should be doing a better job, and I’d be inclined to agree with that actually. Doesn’t mean the practice isn’t completely predatory.

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Oh also there are plenty of studies by government organisations, not-for-profits and universities that show the correlation between loot box purchases in young gamers and problem gambling, but let’s not let those get in the way of white knighting…

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… this sounds like an opportunity for a “lesson”.

Kids aren’t just Great or Crappy. They need to be taught things. Like about how games of chance work and why you shouldn’t play them and the value of an actual dollar and how stealing from your parents is wrong.

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Yes, they are. Stop being so condescending and pompous. Keyboard warrior much?

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Yea and there has been studies that “showed” that video games leads to violence irl.

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Now kids will steal twice more, cause from 50 lootboxes you had chance to get all skins. And if prices will be like in fortnite - you’ll pay even more. With 100% result. But waaaaay more to get everything

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He’s right look at fifa ultimate team

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Which is why there are age restrictions on violent games… exactly what I am implying as a possible solution to games with loot boxes (or just remove them). Your point?

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It is and the mobile gaming market is BOOMING.
Parents play a big role but most parents don’t know anything about gaming, so how can you set a limit for your child or explain something that you don’t know ^^

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