/v/ - Video Games

>>13723670

What is social score? Why is a black major giving me orders to view lootboxes in WWII?

EA is full of some slimy social engineers.

Its a wonder that they're still allowed to do this.

>>13723709

Watching other people gamble and waste their money is fun. I don't know how that makes you a cuck.

>>13723670

>>13723709

>when things are so bad you want to see how bad it can get

>>13723716

Your progress/rewards are limited by the work of others. Literally Marxist

>>13723719

Someone else might do it and then the suits will just tell the devs to copy those mechanics into the new game and they'll think of a way to monetize that.

>>13723716

Because he's OP, and thus a faggot. It's only natural he would think buying lootboxes is having fun.

>>13723663

Wow, now you get literal Pay to Win.

I hope that only stays in shooters.

>>13723663

>AAA games continue to shit the bed

Good, the videogame crash can't come soon enough

The only reason I know what a lootbox is is because I took the time to research it. From what I've seen the only way to encounter them is to have a monumentally shit taste in games, so what's the problem? Dipshits deserve to be scammed.

>>13723712

Everything they perfect in the market will eventually be used against you by the government proper.

>>13723760

Because it'll effect you too, in the end. DLC didn't used to be common, but now every game tries to nickle and dime you with cheaply made dlc that obviously could've been in the base game. Loot boxes are even cheaper and more bullshit than dlc. Hope you're looking forward to having a virtual slot machine that you use real money for, in every single game five years form now. All because you were too lazy to fight it when it's happening in the shitty AAA games.

>>13723670

WE

>>13723760

I remember hearing the same line about season passes the first time they showed up in a game, now its hard to find a new release that doesn't have a season pass.

>>13723719

Fuck no. Raising people's standards is the last thing they ever want to do.

>>13723824

WUZ

>>13723839

TODDZ

>that's not real

>that's too fucking stupid

>patenting something costs a boatload of money

>noone would this, not even Acticancer

http://archive.is/7I9WO

<they did this

HOLY FUCK WHAT

You know what, I'm fine with this. Really.

It just gives me one more thing to make fun of idiots playing this game. It's not that I hadn't enough, but more is always better.

>Lol, you play a game where you're rewarded to see people opening boxes

>Lol, you're not good at the game, you just dropped 25$ on it and get to play against 6 year olds now

Even fucking TF2 has this shit together:

>join server

>bottom of the table populated by walking brainfarts stabbing people in the face with spy or m1+w pyro's

>top of the table populated with hardcore soldiers landing impossible shots or spies stabbing 7 people in a row

>you can gauge your skill by how close to each extreme you place

>if you dominate one of the top scorers you know you're doing well

>other team has 3 guys on the top with a large diference in points from the 4th (call these Good Players)

>your team only has 2, you included

>still manage to win because you two are even better than the other 3

>or lose but have a buttload of fun because you constantly clashed against those 33 Good Players while the rest was fodder

A fucking shit game ruined with microtransactions still managed to do the crucial part of NOT FUCKING WITH SKILL PERCEPTION BY THE PLAYERS.

How hard is this shit?

>>13724112

We've got bigger issues than niggers, at the moment.

>>13723670

>loot spectator

The fucking what now?

>>13723663

Don't forget the patent for a system that basically lets you one-click buy your killer's gun directly from a killcam for real cash money.

>>13724104

It's too late.

League of Legends already has this in a way, as proven by some faggot some while ago. Buying champions led to you being queued with better players in your team while the other team conveniently had a bad player on your supposed lane, so you'd end with an absurd score and think "Hey, maybe I'm good at this game and I should buy more champions"

Who's to say other games aren't pozzed already? I doubt most ASSFAGGOTS isn't riddden with this bullshit by now, and I'm left wondering if even cosmetics would lead into a similar system.

>>13724130

Also, I can tell you for a fact, if you stop playing league of legends for a pretty long time, the first match after coming back always puts you against glue eating retards, so you keep playing.

So, are we in agreement that anybody who actually buys this is a piece of shit imbecile?

This is beyond shit and Activision needs to die, but it should never have been a quesrion on whether Cawadoody We Wuz II was worth buying. One of the original annual cancer FPS franchises ever worth buying?

>>13724131

Man I'm glad I dropped out of any and all assfaggots years ago.

>>13724144

Even if they didn't it's as simple as making a bot farm to buy and cancel this shit constantly and use edited data to fool investors.

>>13724157

If the people were giving reviews and opinions like "THIS GAME HAS RIGGED MICROTRANSACTIONS, DON'T BUY IT, I'M REFUNDING RIGHT NOW" "BOYCOTT GAME X" "DEVELOPERS, REMOVE THIS AT ONCE OR WE DON'T BUY THEM GAME" then it would work.

I know, I am unrealistically asking for too much out of dumb shit normalfaggots with "wow! if I pay for this gun/item/character I will own!" mentality.

>>13724186

Maybe they want to display their tolerance, consolidation and respect for the semitic people by doing it.

>>13724186

They're like birds, gazing at glimmering objects in the grass, their first instinct is to dive headfirst to grab it as fast as possible.

No thought behind it, nothing. They just rush straight ahead and try to catch it.

>>13724199

>>13724200

Shoo shoo digit jew.

>>13724186

They are just mindless NPCs doing what they are told to do.

>>13723719

No. Vidya is now taken over by the same people who run Hollywood. People with no talents beyond marketing. They treat consumers like addicts, knowing normalfags will buy vidya anyways, so their job is to make each retard spend more and more on each product. They don't care about the quality of a game since their metrics say, rightly, that it doesn't matter. Faced with two piles of shit, people will buy one anyways.

>>13723663

Not only is this inherently gambling, their behavior is going to get the government involved and ALL of this shit will be listed as either illegal or require gambling regulations/taxation. We’re fucking winning.

>>13723670

This is an entirely new level of “You don’t own nothing, goyim.” This is you NOT OWNING ANYTHING (watching someone pay real mone for digital guns) not owning anything (paying real money for digital guns). YOU… YOU… DOUBLE KIKE.

Actually, no; it’s three layers because it’s not real money. Federal Reserve Notes are piece of cloth that have no intrinsic value.

TRIPLE KIKERY.

>>13723670

>watch other people open lootboxes like a poor kid watching richs kids open xmas presents

>niggers nose is as wide as his fucking mouth

I just want it to end. I want it all to go up in nuclear hellfire. I want post apocalypse, so we can hunt down all the people who deserve death without repercussion.

>>13724282

Remember that if martial law is declared–or we have another Carrington Event, or there is a even just localized upheaval–it is up to you to know the names and addresses of your local jews (and nonwhites) so that you can do what must be done. Because you can’t fucking rely on the police or military to do it.

>>13723760

Give an inch and they'll take it to a mile that you can't predict.

>>13724288

>11 AM to 8 PM Pacific

>that means you can’t even get chat support on the East Coast until 3 PM

These liberals’ hubris will be their undoing. Self-driving cars are a “success” because they never test outside of California weather. They can’t drive in snow, fog, heavy rain, or on unmarked roads. Electric cars are a “success” because of treasonous government lobbying and subsidies, as well as never being tested outside California weather. Li-ion batteries HATE the cold. The little California bubble they all live in will pop very soon.

>>13723847

Remember that with minimal effort you can turn tf2 boxes and drops into internationally recognized currencies

Something overcuck or any other game doesn't have.

t. sold a super rare shiny weapon for decent-quality paper with numbers and faces of famous people on it

>>13724186

Turns out once you remove all religion people don't become brain surgeons or astronauts, instead they worship a corporate entity and believe in black cats crossing the road as a premonition.

lessons to be learned.

>>13724310

Like in Vanquish?

>>13724275

>Not only is this inherently gambling, their behavior is going to get the government involved and ALL of this shit will be listed as either illegal or require gambling regulations/taxation.

You're too optimistic. There was a push for regulation and it fizzled out fairly quickly.

>We’re fucking winning.

>We

The legality of lootboxes question is already falling out of the short attention of normalfags. It's going to become the norm in all AAA games, just like DLC, season passes, preorder locked content, and other cancerous shit. Anons tried having the lootboxes are/aren't gambling debate here and most here went full "no step on snek!", as if laws regulating anti-consumer business practices are inherently a bad thing because gubberment.

>>13725600

Gaming is fucked, well AAA gaming at least. Normalfags seem to begin losing interest in videogames now and kids don't give a shit about videogames either.

What else could they make with this goddamn game other to come up with more cancer? Its the same shit we played in 2003.

>>13725718

Even if the game was fun to play I doubt Norm L. Faggot would bother wasting time to grind out all the microstransactions when he can back to the other skinnerbox he already spent hundreds of hours on.

>>13724258

>They treat consumers like addicts

When it comes to loot boxes, consumers literally are addicts.

>>13725839

The whales will provide. They made Destiny highly profitable despite being a shitshow and they're doing the same for Destiny 2 despite it selling about quarter as much and Destiny 2 reuses a ton of assets. They are continuing make games profitable regardless of playerbase fluctuation, something previous games could not. That's good for investors.

>>13725718

It doesn't matter if they play, it matters is if they buy. You know how Steam makes bank on sales and you often hear about people with giant libraries of games they'll never even try let alone complete? Same principle. You hear how people rushed through Destiny 2 and got to non-existent endgame quickly. That's why Destiny 2's active playbase suddenly dropped off. All those people still bought the game and many of them bought loads of microtransactions. The playerbase will spike for every major DLC and fall again. Then during every major DLC they'll have larger promotions for all microtransactions and lootboxes and make record profits again.

>>13725600

>Anons tried having the lootboxes are/aren't gambling debate here and most here went full "no step on snek!"

>Most went full lolberg

I missed this but surprised we have that many lolbergs still, would have thought between fascists, natsocs, and even the commies, they would have outnumbered the lolbergs.

>>13723663

What a brilliant, bright future we have in store.

>>13725951

I don't think you read the full OP, when they cough up the money to buy the gear they then get intentionally matched against worse players so they can win more easily.

>>13726004

The argument was most often that having lootboxes regulated by state or country gambling laws would allow the government to control the content of the game. The counter argument is that business model =/= content. Then the argument is that business models have a direct effect on the content of the game. So my question is this: What positive effect on the content of a game do lootboxes have?

>>13723670

I didn't even notice he was black at first because I was so surprised that there are achievements for watching lootboxes being opened.

>>13723670

Please tell me this isn't real.

>>13723663

So there is P2W system that is in reality not P2W. You are paying for better items but in reality it means you will eventually get matched with low level noobs that will destroy your game.

Hell it means for progressing without paying you will get raped in the ass solely for having any good items, skins or whatever.

We can also be sure more developers are using similar system.

>And this is only just the beginning, what will the future hold?

Me not giving any money to games with paid loot ever again. Unless it has some trading, stable economy and shit.

>>13724112

Well, in the campaign you get saved by a female french spy. I know there was some but I'm not sure the one in the campaign is based off any real life version since her name doesnt' match any of the known ones. I guess more accurate than black nazi's.

>>13726162

>Max Fleischer was born to a Jewish family in Kraków,

This is very good. Activision makes horrible fucking trash and no sane person will play their games + normalfags will understand sooner how shit like this is devil's idea.

Normalfags already shit on lootboxes, such decisions by AAA devs will only speed up the crash

>>13723670

>Rewards

>25 Social Score

What the fuck.

So how long until weapons and items are handled like Counterstrike but with real money via in-game currency? I could totally see a F2P FPS or ASSFAGGOTS coming out in the next five years that let you pay IRL small change to upgrade your weapons in the beginning instead of earning them later on - have most weapons and accessories cost literal pennies (maybe a grand total of $0.15/round on average) but give the players options to drop some serious dosh for certain weapons/skins/taunts/etc. and reward them for doing so with a cash-back program and bulk discounts along with constant, long-term rewards for heavier spenders and a small cash bonus (based on how much you spend and your perfomance) for winning the match so that players are incentivized to buy items to win so they can save money on more items later. This seems like it could be a very efficient treadmill.

Regulation can't solve this, it's the same as regulating piracy, no one actually involved is unhappy about this, neither the person producing the content or the person consuming it (if people are unhappy about it, then they just wont buy it). It'd be a victimless crime and you're forcing other people who don't believe in your value system to follow it. Only when people are taught to have some self respect will companies like Activision stop rolling in money.

Though, I really feel like that video is stretching it, the dastardly part of the patent is engineering the matchmaking to condition people into buying micro transactions, sounds like all Activision is doing in this case is taking loot boxes, the skinnerbox system in session based multiplayer games, and trying to make it more social. It's silly and asinine, but it's not fundamentally evil.

>>13726434

>you're forcing other people who don't believe in your value system to follow it.

So?

>>13723663

other MMOs did that shit already, when a player obtained a rare item from a lockbox, there was a message all over the channel/server

"xXxNaruSaskeF466ster888xXx obtained Sword of Thousand Fuckyous skin" and such

>>13726434

>It'd be a victimless crime

In states with gambling regulations children aren't allowed to gamble and it's a 21+ thing becuase kids are stupid and fall prey easily to predatory business practices like this, turning them into future whales that will bankrupt themselves for skins. Those are your victims. A meth addict doesn't have to be unhappy with consuming meth to be a victim of addiction. You can say adults are stupid too, but that isn't going to make people remove the AoC or literally any other age restriction based purely on "maturity". The point is that there's a much less likely probability of becoming addicted at older less impressionable ages.

>>13726434

>it's the same as regulating piracy

Wew lad. Pirates and priate distributors are not giant public companies milking you for every shekel you have. They are third party entities. If regulations were put in place, AAA companies would be forced to comply or face major and expensive lawsuits. They can't just hide behind 7 proxies.

>>13726310

The oldest of the 4 Warner Brothers was also born in Poland, and yes they were Jews.

>>13726614

I thought there were only two Warner brothers and one Warner sister?

>>13724275

Quadruple kikery!

>you don't own the gun because you don't own the game only a licensed copy but they can revoke the licence at any time

>>13726729

those libcucks are trying to grab our digital guns!

>>13726538

Can you argue your point without pearl clutching, also surely it's a good thing retarded parents are losing their money?

>>13726931

>Probably not though.

You underestimate the Jew.

>>13726447

it's not sustainable.You don't even have the power to force laws on the majority. And even if you did, all it would take is for someone else to have more power than you and then you're fucced. That's why we (or used to, before people started using the law to push their business or personal agenda) base laws on universal axioms like property damage.

>>13726538

How would you stop people from selling games to children? Would you require a license to sell videogames? Would you require that every time someone sells a game, they have to report what they sold, the address, date of birth, and full name of the person they sold it to? How would you even describe the predatory practices in question so that it's not a coin toss whether or not what a company does is illegal? How would you define a framework for this to be expanded (you'll have to as companies move to new techniques of tricking the shit out of people)? How will you stop that from then becoming a weapon for lobbyists? You're comparing a brick and mortar industry which has been largely unchanged for what may be thousands of years and has some form of regulation baked into almost every modern civilization, to videogames. Which have been around for probably fifty years, and don't even have a medium of regulations, hell they don't even exist in physical form. Most of the people in public office have probably never even played a game so who is even going to make these regulations?

>>13726568

Morally it's the same, antipiracy is publishers saying that two voluntary parties transferring data to eachother shouldn't be allowed to do that. Here you're saying that two voluntary parties transfering data to eachother shouldn't be allowed to do that, you could get bent out of shape over the fact that this involves money while piracy may sometimes not directly involve money but if you do you're missing the point that this is still a gross invasion of peoples' personal lives. You're also saying that as if regulations haven't been the number one tool that international companies have used to hold their monopoly vs new businesses for the last two hundred years.

>>13726914

it has chain reactions that cause other other problems in society that aren't worth letting it happen in the first place. like jonestown sure you had a bunch of retards drink the koolaid and die but now you have the cleanup and trying to encourage others not to stress your emergency service budget doing similar retard things. my buddy has gone to casinos that have fucking suicide checks in the hotels and are relieved to hear you're smoking weed in the room and not killing yourself

>>13726655

Wahrlich. Ein Jude unter den Juden.

>>13726655

>I fucking called it too, when everyone was discussing ways it could possibly get worse, I knew they were going to push the impulse buy by encouraging you to either buy the weapon the guy who killed you was using - or buying an item that provides a defense from the weapon they are using.

To double down on that, make weapon/item acquisitions reset after a certain point. Maybe make a game around some sort of short episodic theme and then every time a new episode comes out make players grind for new kit or just buy it outright. You could also tie in an element of randomness to it - if someone gets a legendary item or something from a crate and then kills you with it, you have to pay more to get it versus a more common item. And of course, you still need to have lootcrate-only items to keep people buying lootcrates. For even more shekels, set up some sort of in-game auction house and take a percentage commission on top of adding a subscription service that offers subscribers a discount on item purchases.

>>13726954

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that lootboxes are gambling and should fall under the same regulations as other gambling types.

>inb4 they're the same as baseball cards

That his is gambling as well and should be regulated too. I don't give a fuck what excuses come up with, lootboxes are predatory bullshit that benefits nobody but the company and we are allowing them to raise generations of gambling addicts and whales. Call it pearl clutching if you want but this shit is fucking wrong on so many levels.

>>13726995

you can at least exchange baseball cards with others, no such thing for lootboxes

>>13724275

With gambling there's the chance to leave with more money than you had. There's no such chance with video games.

>>13727025

Casinos actively hunt down people that count cards. You can't even hedge your bets because those kikes do not want you to win. Might as burn the money, more chance of accomplishing something that way.

>>13726995

Regulation is not the answer. You're going to have to police videogames like nothing you could even imagine to have a hope in hell of being able to catch even a slim minority of these cases. It'll be incredibly expensive, incredibly invasive, and more likely than not, it's going to target the totally wrong people because "lootboxes" isn't specific or exhaustive enough to make actual laws out of.

>>13727133

Just give an AO rating to any game that includes lootboxes and microtransactions. Problem solved.

>>13727170

Damn. That'd be devastating.

>>13727173

You have to be an adult to gamble, so I fail to see why games with gambling shouldn't be subjected to the same shit. If they want to kike it up they are free to do so.

>>13726914

Can you argue any age restriction gambling laws without bringing up muh children? What I want is equal application of existing gambling laws to this form of gambling, with the added side benefit of making shit like lootboxes untenable for triplayyy. They should not get to sidestep the law.

>>13726954

>How would you stop people from selling games to children?

Don't need to. When lootbox shit is rated 21+, either it will stop, or the stigma around higher age ratings will be forced out. I highly doubt the latter will happen.

>How would you even describe the predatory practices in question so that it's not a coin toss whether or not what a company does is illegal? How would you define a framework for this to be expanded?

That takes some working out and deliberation. Being able to pay money for the uncertain outcome of recieving goods and/or services. Buyable fake currency that allows you to this should fall under this as well. Being guaranteed to receive some goods and/or services with the probability of more/better goods/services should fall under this. I can't give you a perfect definition off the top of my head. A proper defintion will be refined by the edge cases that are brought up and whether or not the arguements for or against them being gambling are stronger.

>How will you stop that from then becoming a weapon for lobbyists?

Nothing can be stopped from becoming a weapon of lobbyists. The only way to do that is to go full ancap, which would only make predatory practices like this worse.

>You're comparing a brick and mortar industry which has been largely unchanged for what may be thousands of years and has some form of regulation baked into almost every modern civilization, to videogames.

If I put porn in a videogame, it is pornography. Pornography has existed for just as long if not longer. Putting it in a videogame does not change what it is. If I put false advertising (lying about a something in a trade, something people have been doing since before snake oil salesmen or any equivalent phrase existed in any langauge) in a game by lying about say, the stats of a purchasble weapon or the probability of a lootbox drop, is it suddenly legal because it's in a game and not a 30 second blurb commercial or on a physical product packaging?

>and don't even have a medium of regulations

See other illegal or regulated business practices such as false advertising. The medium is unimportant, like with free speech. What's important here is the business practice.

>Most of the people in public office have probably never even played a game so who is even going to make these regulations?

People like Scalia.

>Morally it's the same, antipiracy is publishers saying that two voluntary parties transferring data to eachother shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Way to entirely dodge my point. I don't care that they're morally similar to you. You said it can't be regulated in the same way piracy can not be regulated, and that is false for the reason I stated in the post you responded to.

>you're missing the point that this is still a gross invasion of peoples' personal lives.

How so. We make it an illegal business practice. Target the companies, not the consumers. Nothing good comes from targeting the consumers anyways.

>You're also saying that as if regulations haven't been the number one tool that international companies have used to hold their monopoly vs new businesses for the last two hundred years.

I'm sorry the whole world isn't ancap enough for you. What your saying here is that regulations are inherently bad because they can be misused. You like your guns? You gonna listen when some liberal faggot says people shouldn't have guns because they can be misused?

>>13726655

>Next up, DISCOUNTS! Limited time offers! Bundle and Save microtransaction packs!

That's already happening. GTA Online does this all the time.

>>13726655

>>13727255

Been happening for a long time, just about every thing that has microtransactions run discounts and limited offers.

>>13727170

>>13727173

>>13727186

This is ultimately what I want. Gambling laws range from being illegal to 21+. It won't stop anyone from buying anything but Vidya would be forced to set new age ratings above 18+, destroying the age rating stigma of 18+ games and thus creating a push for greater creative freedom from developers that have high rated games and are shooting for that 17+ mark. Alternatively, and most likely, they cut that lootbox shit out. Another possibility, though the most unlikely, is that it starts a wave of reforms that loosen gambling laws. May not necessarily help vidya, but there could be less harsh regulations on gambling across the board.

>>13727310

>less harsh regulation after what happened in vegas

haha, no.

>>13727341

What happened in Vegas?

>>13727350

Wow, really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

>>13727234

Do this bit by bit because there's just too much to talk about to hit every point with any amount of depth, and not end up rambling.

>When lootbox shit is rated 21+

Do you mean introduce a state law to rate it 21+ ie. incorporate ESRB into state law, or adding it to the list of things that classify something under ESRB 21+/AO as it is now?

>>13727395

What does the shooting, using guns that were already illegal, have to do with gambling regulations? I thought you meant there was something to do with gambling regulations changing there.

>>13727531

>Do you mean introduce a state law to rate it 21+

It would have to be state law. The ESRB is backed by the games industry itself which will of course cut corners for itself far easier than any lobbying would. Game companies would send state gambling commissions, that already monitor gambling, information about their game. They wouldn't be required to actually play games, just look at all the ways real money can be spent in a game as listed by the company getting their game checked. The ESRB doesn't play games either.

>>13723719

That doesn't bring in quite enough shekels though. A mediocre game you can pay to make less mediocre is better than a good game right out of the box.

>>13727626

gambling is implicated as a cause

>>13728094

Don't actually go and give the kikes more shitty ideas, one of them might be reading this thread RIGHT NOW

this guy is the same class of asian as ProZD. don't they sound alike?

>>13723730

It was always about money, but it used to be that customers were smart enough to only give their money to fun things, which made fun a requirement for profit. Not anymore.

>>13727658

Merely by the shooting happening there, or are you suggesting there's been evidence that the shooter was a heavy gambler?

>>13726488

There's a difference between a little text buried in the constantly scrolling chat log, and actually seeing the loot box being opened in full 3D with the sparkly special effects and fanfare, as if it were your own, but it's not.

>>13728094

>No… you don't want to piss people off with limited licenses just yet.

If you frame it right, not enough people will be pissed off. Make some action game with 8-week or 12-week "episodes" with different settings (think Timesplitters) that are basically a hub world, an infinite set of progressively generated instances/zones, a few hard-ish endgame raids with high-end PvP gear and then arena combat that allows gear from all episodes. When one episode ends, don't cut it off, but push your support to the new content. Let people still play the older stuff but basically remove the incentive to do so by adding new tiers of PvP gear every time you release a new episode. People will buy PvE gear to earn PvP gear.

>>13723663

if you have taste you are safe from this

Goys, how about…loot box games? Buy our game for the cheap, cheap price of 10 dollars, and you just MIGHT get our AAA epic, meme-filled, inclusive, woman-empowering game for 10 dollars! If not, you'll still get fantastic rewards like a voice track, or a song jingle, or one illustration or wallpaper! You might even get a hilarious feature like Big Head Mode or Rainbow Blood mode, for only 10 dollars!

But don't worry, if you purchase the physical version, you'll have this very same fun, thrilling roulette!

>>13723800

Konami really didn't know what they're doing, the whole vidya industry is turning into a giant pachinko parlor and they're checking out.

>>13725924

>vidya started off catering to nerds with decent games

>vidya expands its market to every demographic they can lay their hands on and the games become shallow

>vidya becomes terrible and now caters specifically towards addicts trying to fill the hole in their heart

Is this how the crash will happen? A few whales commit suicide after running out of credit and the whole industry falls?

>>13728395

For God's sake. At this rate, casinos in Las Vegas and feathernigger casinos will have "family-friendly" casinos where they'll plop children and teens to gamble for skins and weapons, and send them to their accounts.

Oh God, please don't tell me that's already happening.

>>13724122

This is going to make the mad money on the screamers.

My younger brother used to always pick whatever character I would beat him with in fightan vidya after I won with them, resulting in a situation where I would have to travel the entire roster to avoid playing the same character against each other which I've never liked for some reason.

>>13728184

Very early on before everything was made by giant publishers it was both about making money and making something they could be proud of having created. This was when the people running the company were designers themselves, now the ones running it have marketing and finance backgrounds so they care about nothing but revenue, its all garbage to them regardless.

>>13728444

Welcome to gatcha shit except with just pozz, literally aping Japan at this point.

>>13728184

I guess this was the whole idea of pushing gaming into mainstream and declaring "Gamers are dead". Just to open it up to jew the fuck out of people,

>>13728943

That's literally what kikes do, destroy, subvert and kike.

>>13723663

So now they have Activision employees infiltrate the game and get better items in front of everyone.

> Look anon if you buy this you get better weaponz

> dont you wanna win?

>>13730305

>Remember when CoD set in WW2 was good and was built around its singleplayer?

no? it was always built around trip wire enemy spawns, erratically behaving AI that spawned in infinitely and a few gimmicky set pieces. 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6-12 all have very similarly designed single player campaigns. They really haven't changed much.

>>13730377

Big deal, goystein has 4h cutscenes and 2h of gameplay.

>>13730377

You think that's bad? Wokenstein 2: Electric Boogaloo and the Nu-Cuck Loss Edits is also 6 1/2 hours long. 3 1/2 hours are cutscenes. A journo said 6 hours is impressive.

>>13730305

Ahahaha oh WOW.

>>13723663

Activision is rubbing right up against internet gambling laws here.

>>13728395

Humble monthly works in a similar way ($12 monthly subscription for a bunch of "mystery" games) but at least they reveal the main game in the bundle before you subscribe. It's pretty much the same idea as loot crate.

test

>>13726931

The next step from "this game is doing it" is to "this industry is doing it." There you go.

The Germans on the western front in CoD:WW2 use the Soviet PPSh-41.

Wew lad.

>>13730377

Because a movie costs $12 to see in theaters and $20 to buy on disc and own forever. A game costs $60 initially, plus loot box profits.

>>13731243

Hey, that's pretty good. How much time it took you to render?

>>13731368

With the -speed 2 setting I was just under a real time encode, so like 7 mins or something. Would have taken longer if I had kept the video at 60fps but OP didn't do that either so again was matching like for like.

>>13731243

All you have to do is to use two-pass encoding, jesus christ it's not rocket science.

>>13723663

>webm

>You get to watch other people open their loot boxes.

…when micro-transactions became the thinking man's fetish.

>>13727025

>what is the csgo steam market

>>13723760

the problem is that its gonna infect games that you like too because $$$

>>13725718

they don't care if the numbers drop as long as trust fund kids blow hundreds of bucks on lootboxes

>>13728411

>A few whales commit suicide after running out of credit and the whole industry falls?

No one would give a shit unless they were someone ultra famous.

>>13723663

Pretty soon it'll just be on par with how the old Korean grinding games went. I remember playing this really, really fun game. S4 League iirc. Super fun gameplay, skill based third person shooter with some kind of crazy sports theme.

Fuckin absolutely amazing until they added cash shop items that would literally make it impossible for someone to win against you unless they also had those items. The game died shortly after.

>>13732148

A way to do loot boxes in a reasonably uncorrupted way is to have all the possible loot be of roughly equal value, with approximately the same chance of appearing. And if the loot boxes cost real money, then none of the items should give the player a tangible advantage over other players in competitive gameplay. But then people wouldn't have any real incentive to buy them, since there wouldn't be a stupidly slim chance at some ultra-rare dildo. That's why people buy them in the first place. It's like playing scratch offs.

>>13732175

>in a reasonably uncorrupted way is to have all the possible loot be of roughly equal value

retard.

The way you do lootboxes Good is you have the stupid benis dickfuck glowshit while still having a plain alternative to it obtainable by players, I mean even now the TF2 Team doesn't Totally do it as well since they were made to add cases and shit with limited cosmetics the somewhat upside to this is like 99% of case cosmetics are awful and or Low Value.

An Unusual Strange Professional Killstreak Decorated Skin Scattergun is not needed to enjoy tf2, but retards with too much money can PAY to try and get one.

They even have ALL the mvm tours playable for free.

>>13732199

>>13732175

Isn't that was CoDWW2 is doing? I thought all of this "watch people open loot boxes" shit was a vehicle to get people to buy more lootboxes of cosmetics.

>>13732207

Pretty sure there's limited weapons

>>13732222

Must be true because of the quads. Shit, I thought it was just making your guns purple.

>>13732239

I don't know about CoDWW2, but there are already lots of games with lootbox items that give huge advantages to players. Especially in the Freemium Korean MMOs. They totally embraced the lootbox idea.

>>13732239

It always start with the "it's just cosmetic items, you retard" and then a few months later they add weapons variants and new weapons that you can't unlock via xp progression.

It happened in Black Ops 3 and Modern Warfare Remastered.

CoD bleeds users since MW3 and this seems a desperate cashgrab to cover the lost ones: problem is CoD is still a big franchise, voting with your wallet doesn't work and there are enough fanboy to actually defend this insane bullshit.

For how bad it is to says,the best hope is people stop being naive fucking idiots and don't buy into it and get angry about it. Or,and we are scraping the bottom of the barrel, hope that it stays contained.

>>13732148

>>13732175

The only correct way to do lootboxes is to triangulate the IP of the transaction and then murder the buyer in his sleep.

>>13726282

Black Nazis were perfectly legit, but only in Africa where they were recruited locally.

>>13728395

Back when GoG still stood for Good Old Games this actually wouldn't have been too bad a deal, the only shit games were part of a series collection bundled with something good.

>>13731441

No, two-pass encoding (which I used, not sure about OP) is not the fucking same as using VP9 and Opus you retarded faggot.

the retard masses and kids who enable this jewry deserve to be gassed

I became so numb

>>13726954

>it's not sustainable.

Yes, it is. Governments can sustain themselves through force for centuries.

>>13737845

The best thing you can do (IMO) is mockery.

People are less keen to buy, if it means they'll end up a meme about how people playing those sort of games are temperamental children who can't handle loss SO MUCH- they have to pay to win.

Make OC and spread it. Anti-advertising almost.

>>13737848

How about you remake that webm without the autistic music?

>>13737848

>I can't think of a different way to get more cards in Hearthstone

Not very imaginative. You buy the game (for normal game price) and get the opportunity to buy packs with ingame currency only. Or you get much more generous free currency/packs (like Gwent). Or you buy a whole expansion/season of new cards.

Keke at the blonde pretending to think

>>13723663

>>13723670

OY VEY

>>13723760

Because it will never spread and evolve into something uncontrollable, until you start to be scammed.

>>13737851

>not on skill but what you've won bought

>>13737858

Yes, this whole "Cosmetics don't effect the experience" shit is a sham. It's ultimate end is that you buy a game that only runs in 480p and can buy a lootbox with a small chance of "upgrading the cosmetics to HD 720p" and an infinitesimal chance of 4K. Even just skins can effect the probability of you being noticed in multiplayer. Cosemtics often directly effect gameplay and even when they don't, it's still part of the experience. When you buy a game, you're not buying the raw mechanics. You're buying the whole package: mechanics/gameplay, music, visuals, story. All these things come together to make the experience. People are arguing that because gameplay is unique to games, that it's okay to cut out other little bits. Imagine you're playing Devil May Cry, but Dante has a much shittier outfit by default ugly and boring. The only way to unlock what would be the intended outfit that helps set the proper badass tone for the game is through lootboxes. You see how this waters down the overall experience? You could apply this to everything: Weapons, enemies, the enviroment, etc. Paying for cosmetics isn't just a sign of future cancer, it is a cancer in and of itself.

>>13723663

Who honestly gives a shit? Just play the multiplayer and don't buy the extra shit. Are plebs really that worried about cosmetics that have no value outside of a game mode that they throw down shekels for it?

>>13739711

>Are plebs really that worried about cosmetics

Pretty sure this is buying weapons, not skins.

>>13723663

Please learn how to encode in VP9. This quality is atrocious.

>>13739665

This here. Modern gaming is in a very dark place. Aside from just this nickle and jew stuff, the (absolute) state of game discs upon shipping ensures that you wont be able to enjoy physical games when the patch servers go down.

I hope our hacker bros are working on a way to patch the games when everybody has a jailbroken PS3.

>>13739814

Wew.

>>13739873

Only if the killed player watches a cam of the aftermath with the option of buying whatever was in that loot box.

>>13731243

>still shills his patreon at the end

pot calling the kettle black tbh

>>13739814

What am I looking at here?

>>13723663

>activision are scummy jews

Nothing new.

>>13739814

They should add a booby-trap supply drop.

>>13739980

Player losing a lootbox due to activision.

>>13723663

im not sure why youre webm'ing this. this isnt something id be ashamed to give a view to, its informative.

>>13742012

>giving anyone on jewtube views

Pleb

>>13740131

Oh is that what happened. I thought the guy running towards the box activated it before the one who called it opened the box.

>>13743534

*so nicely.

>>13724144

>Will normalfags ever stop buying into this crap?

I don't think it's just an isolated yet overwhelming population of normalfags that are doing this. I'm very sure there are anons who have done this especially if you looked in the Warframe threads or on Steam where 500+ backlogged games in a library is "normal". Especially when "support the devs", "vote with your wallet", piracy scare was in consumer culture.

>>13723760

>unintentionally admitting to not having played TF2 back during its golden days

Well done faggot.

It's gotten to the point where I don't know anymore what I hate most out of season passes, lootboxes, and nintendo's gay little toys. The only games I can even stand to play now are the rare ones that give you the whole game right away. It's all there. No DLC, no toys, no lootboxes. Anything else, no matter how good it supposedly is, I just have no willpower to play it.

>>13752225

It was always used figuratively, even by that other anon. "Pay 2 Win" in regards to shooters typically means that a player can use real currency to purchase a weapon that is significantly more powerful than common/free weapons, thus giving that player an advantage. However, said advantage does not guarantee that he will win every game with that paid weapon, though his chances of doing so are greater. A literal Pay 2 Win system would suggest that a player can simply pay money to outright win a game whenever he wants, which of course is completely ludicrous even in Current Year.

2018 will be the year of legal regulation against lootboxes.

>>13723670

>Those fucking ghetto headphones

>Loot Spectator

>wat? No, surely not

>25 social score

>oh my lawds

Things like this can't live long thankfully, they're like cyclops babies.

>>13724130

>Buying champions led to you being queued with better players in your team while the other team conveniently had a bad player on your supposed lane, so you'd end with an absurd score and think "Hey, maybe I'm good at this game and I should buy more champions"

That's the future, make the PtW fags the exemplars of their ethos and tempt/lure retards into buying into their shit to beat/become them. As usual it'l be retards and kids ruining their parent's credit.

>>13724135

I think that goes without saying.

>>13723663

Thatr's a new level of bullshit but YongYea is a dumb faggot that doesn't play video games.

He makes Destiny 2's shaders seem as bad a Battlefront 2's bullshit.

>>13764483

>ghetto headphones

That's the most historically accurate thing in the picture.

>>13771554

>Thatr's a new level of bullshit but YongYea is a dumb faggot that doesn't play video games.

Nani?!

>>13736900

all powered by the autism of rottenredditor

>>13739814

Annnnnd it's gone.

>>13743590

That guy needs to get into a fire.

>>13724263

That already happens in mobile games. Want to play? Wait 10+ minutes or play now for only 50 points, which just so happen to cost $1.99!

>>13723663

THIS IS FUCKING JEWISH!!!

>>13739492

I think it has something to do with the faggoty killstreak system. I think.

Do people really think that introducing regulations in video games are the solution to this?

>>13762398

>against

You poor, naive fool.

>>13772669

Nod an arguebend :^)