Lol its like 1 dollar or something stupid low to get those stash tabs. Not bad at all considering the services and prices Blizzard has if you really think about it.
ugh. josh hawley.
/vomit
They will just make games 18+
You have to pay for something that becomes necessary. Beside the monthly fee, RMT in WoW aren’t required.
Plus you can use gold to purchase them.
So if loot boxes are gambling I’d expect every quarter machine in every grocery store to be taken out. Those are just real life loot boxes. Yet I see no outrage over them…
You seem to have a hard time understanding the concept of ZERO monetary value.
I’m just going to move on. Think that would be best for both of us. Have fun.
- New legislation gets introduced all the time. Seldom does it actually pass much less take effect nationwide.
- Nothing in WOW’s shop is random. All loot is exactly as advertised with no randomness.
- If it does end up killing random loot boxes, while i won’t care since i don’t play games like FortNite and such, you probably will. Without loot boxes you can expect those games to die off or to stop being free to play.
Gawd, by that criteria, any game you pay to play could be seen as gambling. We pay a subscription and then go do those raid runs on the hope of getting a piece of gear we really want. We aren’t guaranteed of getting it, it’s purely chance. Or that serpent mount of the Sha that I killed regularly for 3 years before I got it, with teeny odds in my favour. Specific item, paid to play.
But certainly I’m splitting hairs in a big way in WoW’s regard because I don’t play it only for those situations.
It’s 2019, and some people still don’t understand the difference between “capitalism” and whatever it is they’re actually criticizing.
The only aspect of WoW this would directly affect is WoW Tokens.
Hearthstone and HotS would be in trouble though…
This could effect apps that Blizzard and others use to gather information and then sell it to others. Other than that parents should monitor their children not the govt.
Insanely huge difference.
I did say I was splitting hairs - probably a whole head full of 'em - but it was more a philosophical comparison.
god, i support this whole-heartedly.
every day that a CEO feels pain is a good day. these mongrels, these… i don’t even have strong enough language to use to make my loathing known, these filth cretins need to be expunged from gaming.
i don’t care how much of a dark bargain this is(it is, btw. the government getting involved is a double-edged razor blade), i’ll pay whatever price to hurt the pockets of gaming CEOs.
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… The “General Discussion” forums are specifically for the “General Discussion of World of Warcraft” as mentioned in the pinned post “Welcome! Please Read” at the top of the forums.
The forums for generalized gaming discussion would actually be under off-topic in the Games, Gaming and Hardware sub-forum.
On top of that, this looks like a copy-paste of an article. Sourcing articles and videos on the GD is cool and all, but at least make some attempt at discussion instead of just copy-pasting an article without a source, a video, a link, ect and then adding nothing to it.
Here is proof that this is just a copy-pasted article with nothing added to it.
Its literally word for word just a copy paste with TC adding nothing to it AND they can not even be bothered to provide the source of where they got this from. Plagiarizing is not cool dudes and while I get that MMO-Champion can not properly moderate themselves and allows threads like this to run rampant on their website, IE threads that are just copy-paste’s of articles where the TC does not add anything to it and more often than not does not contribute to any discussion after the initial post, this is not MMO-Champion and these kinds of low effort posts are pretty frowned upon here.
You didn’t answer their question, what does this have to do with WoW? What does Lootboxes have to do with WoW, a game that does not have Lootboxes?
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this may not be a game with loot boxes, but it’s a game with microtransactions.
one day, i want those expunged from wow too. there is no place for this cancer anymore, and the day of chemotherapy is upon us it seems.
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This would end gold and would be replaced by playing the game.
… No… No it would not? How do you even come to that conclusion? The focus on this article is that paid lootboxes are akin to gambling and have been getting away with basically selling gambling to children for a long time.
Nothing WoW does, be it micro-transactions, WoW-Token, ect fall under what the suggested legislation is targeting and going after.
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What if i send your account one of my toons and a million gold. Costs to transfer 25$ to blizzard. You level it to max on follow. Send toon back to first account less the gold?