Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes
SupraMario@lemmy.world 15 hours agoThis isn’t true at all. A lot of games now allow you to sell the boxes on their platform.
Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes
SupraMario@lemmy.world 15 hours agoThis isn’t true at all. A lot of games now allow you to sell the boxes on their platform.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Give some examples.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Two that I have played off the top of my head, war thunder and Diablo 3…there is an entire gatcha industry. The amount of f2p mmos as well. EVE online has had a way to sell it’s currency for I’m thinking a decade+ now.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Diablo 3 has no real trading. You have only limited time trading of things you find while playing with other people. Maybe you meant Diablo Immortal but I don’t know enough about that to talk on that subject.
As for War Thunder and EVE. Yes, they have lootboxes and yes there’s a perceived monetary value to the boxes and things in the box, but they’re not the same as Steam because those games do the common thing (which IMO should also be banned) where you stick a premium currency between real money and the thing you want to purchase and obfuscate the actual value of things. I don’t agree with what they’re doing but they are making sure value of items is not directly translatable to real money. It’s one of the tactics companies hide behind (while also manipulating players to spend more). Steam doesn’t even do that. Steam literally puts real money value on the market. You want to buy a Factory new Marble Fade talon knife you know the starting price is exactly 732,98€.
I’m pretty sure in EVE and War Thunder you also get to open some of those lootboxes for free which is another difference from Valve games, where you literally have to pay real money to open the box. I imagine that also plays a role in how companies defend their practices, by saying it’s not gambling because you don’t have to pay to open lootboxes, you just pay to get EXTRA lootboxes to open.
And to make it clear, I’m not defending the gatcha industy. IMO that should be struck down the same way Valve’s gambling machine should be struck down.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Diablo 3 had a RMAH (real money auction house). I didn’t play the game long so it was still up when I stopped playing it. Since fuck blizzard.
WT requires you to buy keys to open the boxes, and you can sell the boxes you find on their store.
Eve has a full blown cash economy.
I honestly don’t care about any of this. I think if a fool wants to waste their money on digital skins for a game. Let them.
But I’m not a prohibition type. Blackmarkets pop up because people are shouting “think of the children”. It’s not kids buying this shit, it’s adults with jobs.