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lagwin1980 wrote:
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Shioks wrote:
In EU all of these loot box games are gambling games. I think there was an incentive to make loot boxes show what you going to get when opening it. But i don't know at what stage it is now.
Yet not action has been done but things can change quickly:
http://www.arjel.fr/IMG/pdf/20180917CPEN.pdf
At some point it will be stopped/regulated
Especially for games not coming from the EU.
This only means 1 thing: if GGG/Tencent want to make money they have to - introduce P2W first and make enough money fast - before this regulation occurs.
What it means is that instead of loot boxes they'll just move it all straight to purchasable MTX like they do after the box is discontinued.
Fact is GGG do not add anything in those boxes that are required to play the game (no boosts of any sort or actual items) they display what you can get in the box and what the chances are of getting the items AND in the same post they tell you that it will be available for purchase later, they done this way before the whole loot box is gambling drama....lootboxes are for people that want to show off
It introduce the concept of gambling with money in a game which is played by many young people, or simply... Vulnerable gamblers.
This is enough to decide lawmakers to write new legislation about it. Or simply to massively tax it. Anyone can understand what i'm talking about.
On ggg/tencent side: they can also release new powerfull skills, OP ones that half of players will want to use, but with some flashy, unconvenient, graphical effect when played alot. a rare MTX then will be the only solution to get rid of that, or to stream without making watchers leaving.
