Comment on Steam's Multi-Billion Dollar Gambling Problem
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I love Valve, but let’s not mince words: They invented and created the problem of Loot Boxes, which were the first true iteration of modern gambling mechanics in Valve games.
To be fair, however, gambling and psychology have been abused in games for decades. I’ve said for over 20 years that Diablo II/World of Warcraft and offshoots like them are *glorified Skinner Boxes.
It’s time for some god damned rational gambling laws in regards to “gaming” and fast. And I don’t mean the idiots who overnight re-rated Balatro as an adult game because they assumed based-on-poker-rules-means-Gambling. Idiots.
vinyl@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not to downplay the fact that valve has popularized and continued on with this trend, to be technical, FIFA was the first major game to introduce loot boxes in around 2008.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Nice catch, I’m not a sports game guy, so I’m not familiar with the FIFA history. It looks like it happened about a year before Team Fortress 2 first added loot boxes.