Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• natryamar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WTF there are singleplayer games with lootboxes?!?!?

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some assassin’s creeds.

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    • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now I realize why i never play those games

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. I liked Origins as a game but since playing that one, which I got for free anyway I think, I haven’t looked at the series since.

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    • natryamar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never played Assasins Creed but why on earth would a game like that need loot boxes? That just sounds crazy to me.

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They decided to give the game a wardrobe system with loot rarity so you could get EPIC MOUNTS and RARE SWORDS.

        But there’s no point to it because the game just gives you the Chocobo mount for free and that’s the only one worth using.

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  • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Borderlands

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does that really count? As far as I know, the golden keys mechanic was just a way to get some good gear. It wasn’t exclusive gear, and you could get it just by playing the game.

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      • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, but the fifa series afaik makes more of its money by selling packs of cards with players in them. Packs and players that you can get by just playing. But they still sell those packs for $$, so why wouldn’t it count?

        Borderlands the same, you can buy random gear with cash. I guess it’s less fomo and less abusive, but they’re still literal loot boxes that they sell for money

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Gatcha system is why I never finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The first game was phenomenal… But the second game required a gatcha system to unlock new party members. There were even quests that were locked behind certain ultra-rare party members.

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• kcweller@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re not though, you are still buying those games. Go the extra mile and pirate them if you really feel the need to play games containing loot box mechanics while trying to “stick it to them”

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    empress is dead

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