The master skins were great, too. Further ideation on the main theme of the character. An aesthetic indication of progression.
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While part of the blame can and should be attributed to the parents loot boxes and gotcha mobile gaming is legit gambling with all it’s addictive properties attached, but marketed towards children.
It’s pretty terrible.
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But the problem is that not every mobile game is addictive. I think if the law is a blanket statement then some games that have actually made it work (Overwatch for example), then they will be hurt by the extra option.
I’m not a fan of legislation/regulation - BUT if this causes Bliz to go back to currency systems, I say legislate the holy hell out of it please - make it so. I’d rather rng go 100% away and we have a defined currency path to all gear. Lets do it.
HotS and Overwatch you sell skins.
Hearthstone is the real kicker… who ever heard of buying individual cards as the only means? Card game’s biggest appeal is that excitement you get from opening a new pack.
When the industry fails to self regulate, this is the consequence.
/shrug
I’m really skeptical about the bill. It’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth in my opinion. You just know that the government won’t stop there and find more things about games that they feel they should regulate. This is going to be a serious monkey paw effect.
If a game’s biggest appeal is no longer playing the actual game itself, maybe it is just time for it to go.
Have you ever played Magic: The Gathering? Or one of them off brand wannabes like Yu-gi-oh or the Pokémon card game? Part of the fun is the game, the other part is collecting. Having a binder full of your favorite cards to look at and show off is an amazing thing.
I was never able to get into Hearthstone so I don’t know how it translates to virtual cards but I’m sure there’s still some joy in collecting and looking at your collection.
I’m sure the Fanboys and Blizzard will just yell “it’s just cosmetic” till their blue in the face to defend their favorite gambling mechanics.
Meanwhile, i’m just over here, hoping this passes so the game can get better without 'em.
I love loot boxes in HotS. They don’t do anything bad to the game.
You literally play the game to get them. And all the while you get gold for doing quests to save up for whichever hero you want.
OH NO!! Not rampent DLC! not DLC carved out of content baseline and sold to us later! Not Season Passes! Not DLC cheats!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!.. 
Not nearly as fun, in my opinion. I played MG:T in school with friends every morning. The fun was in playing the game with people right in front of you. Doing silly things, coming up with unique game modes. (We played a rush variant because we were in school and time limits were a thing. You could drop down as much mana as you had in your hand, and when you cleared your hand you drew a new hand. Made for some… interesting deck builds.)
But I never found joy in opening packs themselves, only annoyance at the packaging. Aside from playing the game I only had fun in redesigning decks and messing with mana-spell-monster ratios to build a specific advantage. (My Red/Black deck was feared throughout the school as the ultimate crusher of dreams.)
Digital card games? Not so much fun. They’re constantly going through updates, you can’t modify or hand-waive silly rules, there’s none of the intense rules-lawyering that can cause hilarious debates and end up with “Well fine then, if X is true, then I play Y, and now you are well and truly boned!” “Meh, counter-spell, 6 mana charge. You were saying?” “buhh… oh fine then. Armageddon. Wipe the whole board.” (We had to outlaw nuclear spells after awhile.)
More like a lot of these predatory practices are in T and M rated games. Many kids still play these games that are not for them. Maybe the government should regulate that to protect the kids? Give the government an inch and it’ll take a mile.
Well i mean, if the Government push to make us have our ID for M and AO games, that wouldn’t be too bad. Yea that will be weird, but if that what happens, it wouldn’t be the worst thing happened in the world when the government got into something.
You can legally change things to side step the law(s). This happens every day!
They should have done that in the first place
And yeah i want this anti-loot box thing to happen
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Dont care how Blizzard responds.
What Im more concerned about is how this affects other things where you pay for an item and dont know EXACTLY whats going to be inside…such as Magic the Gathering booster pack/boxes.
I can see a scenario where, if this passes and gains grounds, that some spoiled little twit who didnt get the MtG card he wanted in a booster box, hires a lawyer and helps kill booster packs too.
By this Logic, Then why Dungeon Keeper Mobile is considered crap? you can mine blocks for free, it just takes a day. Why people dump on NBA 2k19? you can get things for free, you just have to grind for hours before you get good at basketball. Why people want to hate on the initial launch of EA’s Battlefront 2? you can get things for free. just have to spend 40 hours to get darth vader.
And you know what? i wouldn’t have too much of a problem (Except dungeon keeper mobile) if the option to skip it with real money, or just buy your way, doesn’t exist.
Actually, that would be a better system and give Overwatch a bit more content and make it feel actuality rewarding, which adds to my overall enjoyment of the game. Do you know how unrewarding it feels to expect to just get crap from a mysterious box? who the hell needs sprays like seriously?
If only these brain dead politicians understood what pay to win was.
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