4368e1 No.15400351
http://archive.is/VQj4d
>NBA 2K19 launches in a couple weeks, and in Belgium, it’ll be missing a certain component: players there will not be able to buy card packs with real-money currency, thanks to a determination by the Belgian Gaming Commission that such transactions constitute illegal gambling.
>As might be expected, publisher 2K doesn’t agree with this ruling, and has issued a statement to that effect on the official site. The statement also asks for a little help from Belgian fans.
>“We are working to comply with the BGC’s current interpretation of these laws,” the company wrote in the statement. “As a result, we have made some local changes to the MyTeam mode. These changes are necessary in order for us to accomodate the BGC’s interpretation of the Belgian Gaming Act. Specifically, we will be turning off the ability to purchase packs with premium (non-earned) currency/VC.”
>2K says it’s having “continuing conversations” with Belgian officials about the BGC’s interpretation of the rules, and the company argues that the packs you can buy in games like NBA 2K19 already comply with Belgian gambling laws.
>“If you agree, we recommend that you contact your local government representative to communicate your opinion,” 2K wrote. “We will keep the community posted on any developments. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
>‘Blind’ loot boxes, where players pay for packages of random in-game items, have been banned in both Belgium and the Netherlands recently, following government studies that found them to constitute gambling.
>However, similar studies in the U.K. and France have come to the opposite conclusion.
Tell your local government representative how much you want lootboxes in your games!
f06b2a No.15400361
>>15400351
Holy shit! They are this fucking desperate to shill Kikeboxes!
bd55f4 No.15400419
The fuck does a NBA game have with lootboxes? Procedurally generated nigger players?
12790c No.15400432
>>15400351
>being this desperate
>expecting that your consumers will mail their fucking government because they can no longer throw shekels at you which should have been in a 60 bucks AAA game from the start to begin with.
20a375 No.15400442
>Expecting your customers to email the government so you can push lootboxes
The absolute fucking state of AAA gaming
b41e6d No.15400458
And then you have retards saying that the crash will never happen. More countries will ban microtransactions sooner or later and the publishers will be on suicide watch.
4368e1 No.15400468
>>15400458
>And then you have retards saying that the crash will never happen. More countries will ban microtransactions sooner or later and the publishers will be on suicide watch.
>>However, similar studies in the U.K. and France have come to the opposite conclusion.
b41e6d No.15400480
>>15400468
What Britbongs and the frogs do or think is completely irrelevant anon.They don't even buy games as much as eastern europe and asians
e4fe19 No.15400497
>>15400432
>>15400442
Already sent 20 letters today :^). The level of desperation is unreal.
4aa14b No.15400498
Why would Europe care about a NBA game in the first place? Are they just that desperate?
4448c7 No.15400510
>>15400351
Yuropoors care about apehoop?
629160 No.15400520
>>15400498
NBA was somewhat popular in Europe at one time around 25 years ago, but that was mostly because of a huge push by burgers to internationalize. When the push stopped, basketball went back to being mostly a burgerland thing. Europe's thing is more rugby and handball.
869ddf No.15400528
>>15400361
>>15400432
How about we troll them and send letters to other countries in the EU to keep lootboxes away from the union, so it gets unbanned in Belgium and it gets banned everywhere else?
fb3f01 No.15400541
>2k games pleading for lootboxes
>2k mostly makes sports games
why the fuck do sports games have lootboxes? I can understand why a game with cosmetic options would throw the system in even if it's a bad system but how the fuck were they implemented in sports games
4aa14b No.15400552
>>15400541
Because anyone still buying these things are dumb enough to fall for it. Hell, I don't even know what they are, and likely the people playing it don't either but it's not like anyone will care. Just yell SPORTS a couple of times and you've got these literal apes ready to cash their entire welfare checks on this shit.
b41e6d No.15400553
>>15400520
>Europe's thing is more rugby and handball
Pretty sure football is Europe's biggest sport
41eaf5 No.15400555
>>15400541
>>15400419
EA's system was a team builder mode where you got random players and got more in lootboxes. I'd imagine 2K's lootboxes are the same idea
bd55f4 No.15400566
>>15400555
>it actually is procedurally generated niggers
0cdc67 No.15400573
The world feels so stupid to me nowadays I can actually imagine people doing this
f5bc98 No.15400575
>>15400351
I'll get right on it 2K, i'll send in many letters telling my government that Lootboxes are gambling that targets children and should be banned.
4448c7 No.15400601
>>15400566
>dis be Jamal White
>he finna jump real high n fuck hoes in he spare time
>an dis be Jatavious Hudson
>he like Usain Bolt up in this bitch namean?
>but he cain't hit nuffin wit the ball
629160 No.15400606
>>15400553
Football is the biggest sport of everything but the US, so of course it is. I was being more specific as to what sports were really tied to the continent.
7f0b45 No.15400750
>literally asking your fans to tell the government to abolish a fucking law just so you can buy some characters for a fucking videogame
I bet they're going to make a fucking underground market out of lootboxes
4f3ecd No.15400756
Let's see if Belgium remains uncucked
7c0069 No.15400813
>>15400432
>implying that anyone that is stupid enough to buy their games in the first place won't actually do it
and here i thought summer was overfoolish me
712129 No.15400827
>>15400813
Anon, summer never ends.
And its not about the seasons either.
f398ef No.15401270
>>15400351
Organize anons to push for the complete ban of lootboxes AND companies that implement them.
>>15400528
Make it get banned everywhere.
b117cf No.15401374
they can't be fucking serious right? who the fuck would be like "yeah i wanna buy good goy boxes, imma tell my goverment ASAP" there can't be no fucking human being that thinks like that right? it's all just a heehee haha move by 2k
e6d87b No.15401383
>>15401374
>inb4 a demonstration numbering thousands gathers and demands moar lootboxes
4aa14b No.15401392
>>15401383
>>15401374
They're going to astroturf the fuck out of this and make the Dante's Inferno protests look like child's play.
7e6129 No.15401399
>>15400351
Lootboxes are cancerous as hell and allows developers to sacrifice quality gameplay for little gambling boxes you drop egregious amounts of money in minor amounts per box in order to get vanity items.
Fuck that.
5112df No.15401402
>>15401374
Never underestimate the niggercattle.
3124e2 No.15401468
>>15401456
>non-venezuelan gommunism has neba been dried :---DDDD
1a5092 No.15401538
Belgianon here.
If they have hopes to unlock their case this way, they're completely wrong. In fact, it may actually have the opposite effect since, when you criticize a decision recently made by the government, the ones who take your criticism actually do some research.
Should it be confirmed that they are pushing their customers (you can't really call them "fans" considering the way they treat them) to push for a rollback of the legislation, that's legally wrong in Belgium, and you can take heavy fines because of that, which is what will happen.
In addition, it'll serve as proof that lootboxes are predatory measures designed in the same way as a gambling game, but with the lack of regulations that make it gambling. Which means it might be adopted in more European countries because of that. For the same reason that doubling down never works for SJWs.
Oh, and the article is wrong on one point - While UK has clearly said lootboxes aren't gambling, France is actually waiting until November to have a final decision about that, pointing out that "there are several different ways lootboxes are used, we need time to have an eye on all of them"
Proof of this bullshit has been sent to the commission related to that, and I suggest everyone who is against lootboxes here to do the same. It might have a bigger impact against lootboxes than expected.
e24e08 No.15401539
>>15400419
You don't want a super rare nigger with diamond-encrusted grill and giant Black Power Fro with BlackLivesMatter and Kneeling taunts?
1a5092 No.15401548
4aa14b No.15401583
7e6129 No.15401589
>>15401538
Honestly, it is gambling.
>Pay x dollars for a digital mystery box
>Mystery box contains vanity items that can be sold or traded on a market (like steam) for a lesser or greater price value.
PUBG Is a prime example of this, where box sets of clothes and rare weapon skins can sell for upwards of $200-$1,000 while there are common items that sell on the market for $0.25-$1.00
you pay $2.50 per key for a "loot crate" (fancy term for digital scratch off ticket) and you can "get lucky".
4aa14b No.15401590
>>15401589
I like when dumb shills argue it isn't gambling because you can't actually make real money off of it as if that's a point in their favor.
7e6129 No.15401596
>>15401590
>I like when dumb shills argue it isn't gambling because you can't actually make real money off of it
Except that has always been a lie. In some games you can't actively "trade" for real money (unlike Playerunknown's Battlegrounds) but you -can- sell your account in many instances via third party (paypal for username and password).
Either way, it is gambling because the mechanics are identical to gambling. In gambling, you spend a fee to play a chance-based game or system in hopes you get something of value that you want (typically money but other times it is game prizes).
4562e4 No.15401599
>>15401581
He is right. It is blocking what he wanted to put into his game. And since now there is a legal precedent to supress the idea/implementation of fucking your consumer in the ass he can't express how much of a greedy corporate whore he is. Maeks me cry ebrityme.
I wish the "don't like it. don't buy it" mantra worked. but all the games with microtransactions are AAA or mobile games that already have a drone audience with no concept of keeping their money in their wallet
7e6129 No.15401601
>>15401599
Well, the issue with it would be games like Fortnite.
Fortnite is heavily marketed towards kids and kids naturally have to concept of fiscal responsibility. It's the same way that consumerist products would heavily market on kids tv channels like Disney or Nickelodeon in order to garner higher quarterly profits but it's extra devious since it's basically legalized gambling.
9b0e71 No.15401649
>>15401599
>Preventing a game being sold based on its content is the same as Preventing a game from holding back the content it already sold.
Are you seriously implying that lootboxes are some sort of gameplay mechanic. An artistic statement on the vanity of professional Basketball.
9b0e71 No.15401671
>>15401649
I mean I know you were being facetious but I hate the idea that some people think they are gaining content when they unlock a loot box.
4562e4 No.15401687
>>15401649
I'm not saying it is a gaming mechanic or a statement on basketball. But just saying he techncially correct on government preventing him to express how much of a subhuman degenerate he is.
>>15401671
There is always SOMEBODY who will be on the other side of the argument
31a5e8 No.15401730
>>15401581
Sad how the principle of freedom of expression became the legal right to profit from degeneracy.
6422d5 No.15401741
>>15401687
The government is letting him ask his fans to repeal the law so technically they are letting him put his kikery on full display.
58950e No.15401755
>>15401374
One word: whales
There's also the fact that some players just suck and instead of wanting to improve naturally, they prefer to go with the pay2win method.
f41155 No.15401888
>>15401581
>stopping people from getting kids addicted to gambling is the same as whining about things that don't appeal to you
>>15401755
I doubt there are too many people that are explicitly supportive of this kind of thing, but there are many corporate drones who will defend their favorite company's right to do this stuff using "freedom" as their excuse. They have to find some way to justify the fact that they worship a company that repeatedly fucks them over.
6cc4b3 No.15401931
I'm curious if trading card game booster packs would also be illegal in Belgium, as it's random and you won't know what you will get. If legal, then I wonder if EA could form a defense using them as a comparative example. Loot boxes = booster packs.
4aa14b No.15401939
>>15401931
Unless you can trade the stuff in lootboxes then they aren't the same.
f06b2a No.15401995
>>15401581
This guy is also a major sjw and commie.
f41155 No.15401997
>>15401939
>Unless you can trade the stuff in lootboxes
You can in at least some games like Valve's and according to this thread, PUBG.
Trading card booster packs should be illegal anyways, at least for minors who are not old enough to gamble.
260ef2 No.15402029
>>15401581
Moral relativism is a hell of a drug
f06b2a No.15402160
>>15401456
>>15401409
>>15401431
>>>/leftypol/
Go and stay the fuck gone!
7e4ff5 No.15402183
>>15400419
you become more black as you play by unlocking niggering perks, or you can become of 100% african heritage instantly for the low low price of 1099 V-bucks
4813c3 No.15402215
>>15400419
NBA athletes and looting already go together. Lootboxes provide a way to cuck yourself so it's like the real SPORTS experience where you throw your money at a race that wants to replace you. Maybe you could even get a virtual baby out of a lootbox, the offspring of the pure bred African and your waifu, for you to raise as your own.
1486f8 No.15402218
>>15401590
In a country where that isn't true the little turn style machines found in Walmart entryways constitutes gambling because you aren't certain what you're going to get when you pop your quarter in.
>>15401596
>Except that has always been a lie. In some games you can't actively "trade" for real money (unlike Playerunknown's Battlegrounds) but you -can- sell your account in many instances via third party (paypal for username and password).
Under this definition winning prizes with tickets at a fun center is also gambling because you can technically sell the items you redeem the tickets for.
I am in favor of shit like this being considered gambling when the item you "win" can be sold via ingame methods to someone else like in the PUBG example. Other cases and it's just retards throwing their money down the drain for pixels. While it's true the practice is predatory it's not gambling in the normal sense. It's the same nonsense that makes Pachinko legal in Japan.
16bd7f No.15402292
>>15402218
>Under this definition winning prizes with tickets at a fun center is also gambling because you can technically sell the items you redeem the tickets for
They don't call them kiddy casinos for nothing anon.
10f9eb No.15402321
>>15402218
>Under this definition winning prizes with tickets at a fun center is also gambling because you can technically sell the items you redeem the tickets for.
That is gambling. They just use a loophole of switching between money/coins/tickets/prizes so it's technically not gambling by definition.
16bd7f No.15402329
>>15402321
Which is bullshit because you still have to pay money to play the games. It's like a worse form of gambling I swear that shit needs to be made illegal the last time I was at the fun center they had an actual slot machine for kids there wasn't any kind of game at all you just put money in and pull the lever.
eaa34e No.15402349
>>15401581
A pro-MTX SJW, how beautiful.
4f395c No.15402452
>>15400566
It's fantasy football/soccer/basketball, but you have to grind lootboxes to get players you want, and the entire thing is just a gear treadmill of continually more expensive players so you can hypothetically build the best statted team in existence. Normalfags throw money at it hand over fist.
6cc4b3 No.15402516
>>15401997
PUBG item trading has been disabled for half a year or more. In combination of Valve shutting down major gambleing and trading sites during that freeze on trades, it resulted in something like $1m worth of items being permanently lost.
0a79be No.15402599
>>15400750
>mfw ill never sqeeze hex's boobs
oh well mums will have to do
e0a288 No.15402606
did the EU take a break from replacing white Europeans with African niggers to do something good?
618b93 No.15402618
>>15401581
Its a-okay for a rootless international tech monopoly to censor everyone right of center, and its not censorship. But not wanting lootboxes is.
b015f3 No.15402632
>>15400419
Random fried chicken based powerups.
feb055 No.15402688
>>15401374
I can't wait for Chad from Chad or Mike from North Korea to show up
1fd370 No.15402847
They get to have the rest of the fucking world's lootbox shekels but they're kvetching about missing out on a small market in a white European country.
58950e No.15402983
>>15402847
They're scared that the rest of the EU could follow suit, probably.
That would be an absolute joy if it happened.
6529bf No.15403056
>>15402349
Soon they'll run stories about how a study showed women are three times more likely to buy mtx that the crusade against them is really another indication of gaming's misogyny problem
7cc80f No.15403235
>gibs me ur shekels plz u r 2k's graetist ally
6ad2e3 No.15403243
>>15403217
Is this fucking nigger gacha?
1486f8 No.15403247
>>15402321
>That is gambling. They just use a loophole of switching between money/coins/tickets/prizes so it's technically not gambling by definition.
>technically
And there's the caveat of the lovely word "technically" that makes many impossible things possible. The law and the lawyer profession is built on the word technically.
41eaf5 No.15403252
>>15400566
I think it was random real players instead of character creator with everything set to random.
>>15400606
It's called "soccer". Its been called that in English since 1950, after our team of amateur part time players kicked the ass of the British team in the World Cup.
d93bde No.15403300
>You WANT to buy lootboxes goy!
5681f8 No.15403363
>>15403243
More like nigger slot machine. But you right, they even have mobile application that allows you to "open packs" for console game.
The game is stripped away and only nigger slot machine left for easy use without any "game" needed. Then you play with niggers you won when you return home, but that's not popular to even stream anymore compared to "pack opening" videos.
3b9e2d No.15403366
REMEMBER HOW JAYWALKING WAS MADE A CRIME
REMEMBER HOW AAA URGED DRIVERS TO BITCH TO CONGRESSMEN
REMEMBER HOW CITY STREETS WERE STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE TO GIVE TO THE MACHINES
5681f8 No.15403375
>>15403366
Car drivers need to be shot tbh. They pollute our cities, they steal our streets, they kill people more than guns.
Ban cars now. No amendment protects them.
4e6738 No.15403378
>>15401538
You should contact the Belgian Gaming Commission since you're in that country and tell them how thankfull you are for that shit.
Maybe even detail exactly why this shit is fucking stupid and horribly dangerous to kids (just link a few articles about kids spending 1000+$ in FIFA) and that'll do the trick.
Frankly, I liked the idea of lootboxes as rewards for playing. Every few matches, here's a box with random shit, thanks for playing so here's some candy.
It's only when they start charging for them that this shit gets ridiculous, it enables far too much retardation.
Overwatch, for instance, it's nice that every few matches you got enough XP to rank up which means free loot box. It's a neat surprise every now and then.
But then you have videos of faggots unboxing 20-30 crates they bought during an event just because they want a specific skin from that event without having to play during it.
At this point I'm not even sure it's the right thing to ban companies from doing this, maybe what these kids just need Darwin in their lifes.
4e6738 No.15403389
>>15403363
How come nobody made an analogy between this shit and slavery yet? It's literally a nigger lottery, buy niggers and comparing how good they are at their job. It'd be a perfect metaphore if you could trade them with other players even.
>>15403366
Fuck off retard. When you grow up and get a driving license you're gonna understand why jaywalking is a crime. Buncha retards with their eyes glued to their cellphones, giving no fucks about themselves or anyone else, crossing the street because "he's not gonna run me over or is ass is toast!". You have crossings all over the fucking place, stop putting my car, that I use to drive to work, at risk or making me late just because you wanted to shave 15 seconds of your time.
If anything Jaywalking should be punishable with dead by car.
4813c3 No.15403390
>>15403378
We have to protect the kiddos or we'll have Darwinned ourselves. A 12 year old is in no position to battle international Jewry solo.
3b9e2d No.15403409
>>15403389
>muh cars
>muh werk
https://archive.is/BriEN
https://archive.is/WlVo2
YOU SUFFER WHEN INDUSTRY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE LAWS
YOU SUFFER WHEN INDUSTRY IS ALLOWED TO EXPLOIT YOUR NATION
a96b8b No.15403422
>pay2win
>what is this fucking garbage? fuck this game
>pay for the chance to win
>fuck me in the ass I love this have all my money
Dumb fucking niggers.
039868 No.15403427
>>15403252
>Americans can't play FOOTBALL so they invent some weird pseudo-sport and call it football
>you don't even play it with a ball, but with an egg
>you don't play it with your foot either, but with your hand
>it's just a bunch of retards on steroids giving eachother braindamage between Pepsi commercials after a national anthem concert
lmao
4e6738 No.15403449
>>15403390
>We have to protect the kiddos
No, we don't. Their parents have to, they are the ones accountable for their kids and anyone past 18 is accountable for themselves.
I'm honestly struggling to find an argument here. Gambling isn't necessarily illegal, just unavailable for minors, so as long as they restrict that part from minors, it should be legal for them. But even then, there are legal restrictions on gambling and I don't know how they'd apply in this case.
>>15403409
Fuck off with this shit already, jaywalking is fucking stupid anyway with how many crossings you can find.
Besides "CITY STREETS WERE STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE TO GIVE TO THE MACHINES" ? Unless there's self-driving cars with no passengers inside, you're full of shit, there's still people inside those cars, people that have places to be and really don't like stopping every 5 meters because some nigger can't be bothered to wait or find a crossing.
a97e69 No.15403481
>>15403409
>>15403366
Yeah, and now you faggots are trying to lobby the government into stealing our machines from us, since you hate personal freedom and want us to ride the bus to predestined locations like cattle. Like the gungrabbers, there will be no mercy for you on DOTR. You should strongly consider following your leader though, "Chloe" Sagal, and that way all we'll have to do once the continued existence of automobiles becomes too much for your triggered brain is to neatly collect your ashes instead of having some poor motherfucker hose skull and brain fragments from their windshield into the storm drains.
394fba No.15403495
>>15401374
>there can't be no fucking human being that thinks like that right?
you severely underestimate subjugated cucks
a97e69 No.15403496
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>>15403481
Since there are faggots that still haven't done so, watch vid related. It is one of the main goals of the (((elite))) to limit car usage to richfags (read: jews) only, so that the rest of us may easily be contained within the limits of a cookie-cutter concrete ghetto.
Also riding a bicycle naturally sterilizes you over time, so there's that. Plus you look like a faggot in your skintight catsuits.
1a5092 No.15403504
>>15403378
Already done.
About lootboxes themselves, I'm fine with free random rewards, or a totally free system like that (you do X number of plays, you get credits, you can use these credits in a shop to get random cosmetic and fun things, nothing more). But nothing more.
3b9e2d No.15403517
>>15403449
>>15403481
>>15403496
>>15403389
>he can't see the parallels
Okay then.
Now I support loot boxes!
Industry knows what's best, and industry says loot boxes are harmless.
>>15403504
Fuck you for attacking my freedom to consume loot boxes.
Sage for shit anti-consumer thread.
4e6738 No.15403553
>>15403517
You dumb faggot, that's not how this shit works. The industry can promote whatever ideas they want but if there's no public support they go no fucking where.
The automobile industry might have started the jaywalking shit but if it was aproved by the government, it's because it had enough public support for that because, turns out, some people actually drive shit! And they don't like pedestrians acting like fucking liabilities every day for no good reason.
Seriously, you faggot. There's light stops, crossing, air crossings, subterranean crossings and you can even "jaywalk" if there's no car nearby, no cop would arrest you in that situation.
Why the fuck do you feel entitled to jump in front of my car when I'm driving around, instead of waiting a few seconds for me pass by so you can cross the street without slowing me down?
Why do you spit in the most basic concepts of civility and them demand them back?
a97e69 No.15403577
>>15403409
Also, just to establish something:
The streetcar was killed off via a mutual collaboration between GM, Firestone and Standard Oil through an operation that was guaranteed to print all three copious amounts of money, and it manifested itself from bus production. In other words, replacing one method of public transport with another. Private transport did not come into it. If you drove a Ford, fit Goodyear tires on it and filled it up with fuel from Union 76 you would be contributing nothing towards their conspiracy. That's the beauty of a free private market. Something that seems to be lost on the current generation.
3b9e2d No.15403578
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>>15403553
>autojews are better than vidyajews
Nah.
Take your anti-consumer bullshit elsewhere.
>but if there's no public support they go no fucking where
People want loot boxes and you don't have control over the video game industry.
You salty faggots deserve this shit.
BEHOLD YOUR LOOT BOX FUTURE
HAIL LOOT BOXES
4e6738 No.15403592
>>15403578
>anti-consumer bullshit
I drive a car, you infantile cuck. I'm the consumer of the roads I drive in. You have as much of a right walking on them as I have driving on the sidewalks.
>People want loot boxes and you don't have control over the video game industry.
Indeed, people have the right to buy lootboxes just like they have the right to gamble all their money away.
Provided glambing regulations are obeyed and minors can't participate.
What I said holds true here as well, lootboxes are only prevalent because there's public support for them, not just because there's companies shoving them in the market.
Banning this shit solves nothing, the retards that buy them are still there, ready to fall for the next scam. Only by educating or weeding them out can this be solved permanently.
However, gambling is illegal for kids and that much should make the games with looboxes automatically rated AO, but that's as far as you can legally go.
888c5d No.15403603
>Then: Oh shit, government regulated arcades as gambling? Maybe back off from this and search for other revenue streams before we get fucked over some more.
>Now: Write your representative so we can highjack your dopamine systeme again and sell you virtual gambling services where the payoff is digital bullshit that will be lost when we shut down the game RIGHT NOW,
a97e69 No.15403606
>>15403578
<what, the goyim actually support autonomy? Ehh, forget what I said, let's talk about lootboxes again!
No, faggot. Let's keep debating about the parallels you tried to bring up and are hilariously trying to shoehorn down our throats.
<but why do you need a car goyim, no (((real))) aryan needs one
Because if you're not a mouthbreather that lives in the city you do in fact need a car or motorcycle to get from one place to another, unless you're a fan of going cross-country on horseback, self-induced sterilization or willing to go by train every day. Also speak for yourself cuckold. We're much like the /k/ crowd in the way we don't take kindly to enforced personal property acquisition and any attempt to take our cars from us or even so much as putting our names on a "car owner list" will be met with a swift and appropriate response i.e. having your fucking head hung out to dry on DOTR.
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Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach are among the three earliest and significant pioneers of the automobile. All German. All Aryan. Then 20 years later you saw Henry Ford bring the technology to the American masses, and if you don't know the man Henry Ford was later in life then you should still be lurking. His work revolutionized the US and created millions of jobs in the forms of manufacturing and driving. It turned Detroit into a powerhouse during the first half of the 20th century until (((automation))) started taking over.
Anyway, there's nothing stopping you from claiming that Darwin Award you so desperately seek if you walk towards a railroad intersection and decide the crossing signals aren't for you. Even better if you do it wearing one of those edgy "tax disc" satchels since you feel you shouldn't pay for a service that you use and which that requires frequent maintenance, such is the case with healthcare.
4e6738 No.15403633
>>15403606
>car owner list
I'm not sure how law in America goes here, but can't they ID you based on your license plate? Isn't that basically a "car owner list"?
>Henry Ford
I can't say I like very much his contribution to the industry in the sense that he turned workers into replaceable tools that learn no transferable skills in case they ever get the boot. It's more efficient for the industry but it's way less humane for the workers, and this comes from someone that programs robots to take their jobs.
However, there's something funny about Detroit since, unlike cuck Anon's posting, it was the Industry that made it the amazing economic wonder it was and it was the Government and it's citizens that reduced the whole place to rubble. It's easy to forget that it doesn't take being a CEO to be a greedy asshole, you can still do jewish shit when you're working for a Union or you're just a plain worker.
>"tax disc" satchels
???
7d2fb7 No.15403654
>>15403217
holy shit I just realized they're probably making billions off of niggers with lootboxes in sportsball games
5492ab No.15403687
>>15403389
>It'd be a perfect metaphore if you could trade them with other players even.
I'm pretty sure you can, you can put your nigger slave on the market and then wait for someone to buy him.
9e60bd No.15403698
>>15403654
Something like $1.6 billion a year, yeah.
ab4e55 No.15403702
Did you know this game had a SECRET gacha market INSIDE of the gacha market?
This is how easter eggs look in video games nowadays. They propose you to buy more stuff.
5ca32f No.15403706
>Belgies tell 2K they want them in boxes
ab4e55 No.15403707
Also i just realized its called "blackmarket".
And you buy blacks in it
5ca32f No.15403722
>>15403702
This isn't a game. Why is this teanigger anglo attempting to sound like a burger? Strayan mess of humanity? I have no hate in my heart but stranger danger but the mind, the mind, says make sure not another one of these are fed.
4e6738 No.15403726
>>15403654
>>15403702
Someone should leak this to Kotaku and other clickbait sites.
There's an actual "blackmarket" where players can buy african american basketball players and trade them with one another so they can slave away playing sports for their mastahs.
Especially considering the Madden shotout, this is just the other bit of "white supremacy" that needs to be in the news.
Sport players: racist white supremacists that trade black players in illegal black markets and shoot african americans when they lose!
ab4e55 No.15403729
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>>15403722
I am just lurking what the fuck are "2K fans".
Don't open the video if you don't want to cringe real hard. I even spoilered it.
5ca32f No.15403744
>>15403729
I already opened the box long ago.
f3ee86 No.15403748
How do you call a white teenager who is a fan of niggerball?
3b9e2d No.15403750
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>>15403592
>>15403606
tl;dr
Look at these pro plays.
Loot boxes are the future. Saying otherwise is commie bullshit.
How else are these poor companies fighting for pennies going to keep online services running?
Loot boxes are great because now I can give whatever pocket money I can to the cause!
45cdda No.15403757
>>15400750
No, selling characters and other ingame content is completely legal under Belgian law. They want their customers to beg for legalization of lootboxes.
c3d8f5 No.15403807
>>15403726
There's a community thought that NBA itself is a slavery.
4e6738 No.15403820
>>15403750
>I'm too lazy\illiterate to read
>So let me tell you about lawz and shiieet
Fuck off nigger. You actually read it, noticed how it proves you're wrong and retroactively chose to ignore it.
Nobody is forcing you to avoid being hit by a car, by all means do so as soon as possible because nobody fucking cares about you. What nobody wants is to wipe nigger blood from their car and wait 3 days while it's in repairs so they can resume their life, which is why jaywalking is illegal.
>>15403750
>pro plays
What pro plays? What are they playing? Looks as "pro" as bingo to me.
>Loot boxes are the future.
Don't give a shit as long as minors can't get them. Everyone is free to tard out and ruin their life and savings.
>Loot boxes are great because now I can give whatever pocket money I can to the cause!
You can buy as many lootboxes as you damn want because the only person that gets to suffer the consequences is you.
However when you jaywalk and someone runs you over, it's not just your broken ass that's in trouble, the driver likely will have a lot of problems forward as well, from losing his license, having to repair the car, losing his job, etc.
You are trying to conflate two things that are not the same at all, you do not get the right to fuck over other people just because you want to take a shortcut.
Now go cross that road with a blindfold on. Either you die or you go to jail but either way humanity wins.
2500a7 No.15403821
>>15400552
>Just yell SPORTS a couple of times and you've got these literal apes ready to cash their entire welfare checks on this shit.
c1d48a No.15403826
>>15400351
Do they actually think this will work?
If anything, people in Belgium will say they don't want loot boxes.
4e6738 No.15403831
>>15403748
>I haven't been excited to open packs in such a long time
These people actually exist. They're real.
This is actually a thing, holy shit. I thought they were a myth, like 8ch.
Last month I went to a popular fair around here and decided to try one of the larger booths I never tried before. It was something like this:
>buy envelope with 5 papers in
>if you get paper A, B and C, you earn a prize
>Envelope with 4 A's and 1 B
>friend comes along, says he wants to try
>sure, go for it, I need to confirm something anyway
>his envelope comes out with 3 A's and 2 B's
>tell him it's gacha shit
>"Nah man, we could just buy 2 or 3 more, we'd get a C for sure."
>have to explain the concept to him
>fuck, it's a small fair booth, there might not even be a single C printed inside those envelope, there's no regulations
Combined, we wasted like 8 bucks to confirm my suspicions (since I'd never actually tried one of these things) but what amazed me was my friends like of thinking:
>there's 3 papers, that means 33% chance for each
>if we buy 3 packs, we're guaranteed to win!
I did learn some statistics and math in College, maybe that gave me a different insight in this.
But I didn't expect normal people with no higher math knowledge to be fooled this easy.
I guess that's why Belgium and other governments are starting to ban this crap, it IS this easy to sucker people into buying a CHANCE of earning something without actually giving them anything.
I don't consider myself intelligent or that other people are stupid, it's just that Gacha actually screws with the perception someone has of the chances he actually has making him think he has better odds than the system actually allows him to.
085b7e No.15403853
>>15400510
Lithuanians love basketball, and Finns like one Finnish player, but in general no one cares about niggerball.
7c0069 No.15403895
>>15403820
Hey fuck you you little shit
don't compare bingo to this,with bingo you can at least have an excuse to leave the house and socialize and maybe even win something with some value instead of just monopoly money
c46a26 No.15403898
I've been thinking of buying this game on many occasions. Do you think its just as terrible?
9a925f No.15403924
>>15403517
>Now I support loot boxes!
That's just as retarded as comparing piracy to stealing a car. Jaywalking carelessly can and will lead to your injury as soon as you stop paying attention for example Semis can't stop immediately because of momentum, all that weight and metal even at a slow speed hitting you will ruin your day. If you fail to grab a lootbox you just lost a hat or have to quit the game and play something else, not nearly equal outcomes of risk.
6c8743 No.15403947
71dda5 No.15403952
>>15403481
>63d79d4e-36bd-423f-a725-ad32af167363.jpg
>hello my fellow whites
JOAN'S TRACKING IMAGES HAVE SPREAD TO /V/
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f5447f No.15404135
Does anyone in Belgium care about Basketball? Does anyone in Europe?
In the rest of the non-North American world?
f5447f No.15404144
>>15403898
Pirate Super Mega Baseball Extra Innings. Characters are ugly as shit, no real teams and even women play. The Devs are almost definitely SJWs, but the gameplay is actually enjoyable. Haven't played the second game, so I don't know how it is, only the first one.
c46a26 No.15404621
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>>15404135
Okay, lets see here.
10f14e No.15404741
>>15401431
>Regulating capitalism to give it some structure and rules make it the most superior system.
THIS. Become a Fascist today!
>>15403496
>riding a bike sterilizes you
[Citation Needed]
c13519 No.15404745
>>15400361
when more than half your revevnue comes from loot boxes alone you'd be begging your fans to try and shill for you too
4fd4e4 No.15405218
>>15403366
Fuck you, you jaywalking nigger. I hope you get AIDS from stepping on a heroin needle.
000000 No.15405324
>>15404741
>Regulating capitalism to give it some structure and rules make it the most superior system.
>THIS. Become a Fascist today!
I second this.
And as always, some impotent leftist mod is trying to delete this.
4fd4e4 No.15405326
>>15403726
I know liberals irl who have already compared pro sports to slavery because teams trade players. Never mind that the players are fabulously wealthy or that there are white players too. Any thin resemblance is grounds for complaint.
10f14e No.15406716
>>15405324
>tor poster says something good
Blew my mind today.
>>15405326
Compare lootboxes to crack and say ebul whitey corporations enslaving black chillen with gambling.
000000 No.15406942
>>15406716
fuck you tor posters are dumb niggers
you're retarded for ever thinking they would say anything of value
10f14e No.15407028
>>15406942
Was confusing me a part of your plan?
e3dd61 No.15407429
>>15400528
Nope, make it a criminal offense worldwide. Then make sure both board of directors of the company and their shareholders are held legally responsible if a game breaks that law. You can be sure the practice will be eradicated in no time and if we're lucky some kikes will end up in coontown.
91f2f0 No.15407466
This has to be a double negative, state intervention in vidya sets a worrisome precedent, especially in the EU that has a tendency to monopolize low quality regional content by subsidizing the shit out of it.
Think I'm joking? The EU has already regulated Netflix to a point where in Europe 10% of the content on the website has to be produced in Europe itself. Imagine if this applied to videogames and how disastrous it would be.
That being said, publishers like 2K, EA and Valve have made this inevitable. Where the industry itself has tried to regulate itself in moving away from being associated with gambling in PAL territories (think of stuff like Voltorb flip in the Pokemon games) these companies went the extra mile in going full retard and made sure there's real life currency attached to the in game gambling. Of course people are gonna notice and that's exactly what happened, so it's hard to have any sympathy as a whole.
c879a4 No.15407489
>>15403898
Let's be honest here: buying a sports game nowadays is just purchasing it for the players and the logos, not the actual gameplay. I think wrestling games are an exception to this because of their extensive character creators, but professional wrestling isn't a sport.
e3dd61 No.15407515
>>15407466
>The EU has already regulated Netflix to a point where in Europe 10% of the content on the website has to be produced in Europe itself. Imagine if this applied to videogames and how disastrous it would be.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with favoring your own economy over some kike garbage coming straight from the US. Leafs had this too when cable tv was a thing, every single channel on basic cable had to show I believe at least 25% purely Canadian content. With satellite and streaming this stopped being true and from what I've seen the country is turning more into commiefornia by the minute.
4e6738 No.15407727
>>15407466
>The EU has already regulated Netflix to a point where in Europe 10% of the content on the website has to be produced in Europe itself.
A protection measure. Some people don't understand this but we are importing culture from America straight out of SanFran, which molds the society on the other side of the Atlantic according to American values.
This, of course, competes with the local culture for your time and attention to the point where citizens of european countries start caring more about the happenings in America's west coast than what goes in their own country.
There's no single good reason, for instance, why someone should know about the Kardashians other than maybe knowing what a big meme they all are. And yet you'll have women here taking life tips from them or caring about their life, that they see thrue a show where they fake being interesting creatures.
This isn't the best possible outcome, that being the local culture rivaling and beating foreign one for it's citizens and attention, but it's human nature to be curious about what we don't know and take for granted what we already have, so it's understandable that there's at least some intervention from politicians to keep your local culture alive and relevant. Your compatriots will easily forget about it after all.
>>15407515
>from what I've seen the country is turning more into commiefornia by the minute
Exactly like this.
The America you'll see broadcasted into other contries is the medium-upper class of California or SanFran only. It will show the "American Dream come true", that their country is great and the pinacle of civilization. It won't show you Detroit or similar cities, it won't show you the border with Mexico or the degenerates and poverty that they get.
Everyone ends up seeing American culture as an ideal to strive when that "culture" is just a fabricated image that doesn't even relate to most americans.
At this point, western movies are closer to portraying America realistically than modern series\movies.
91f2f0 No.15408101
>>15407727
While you make a good point about protecting local culture, I do have to argue that it's a one sided measure of which a bunch of globalists currently profit from.
If there were any similar measures in the US it would be justified, the thing is because American 'culture' has a more mainstream appeal it doesn't even need to bother to put any measures in place to assert it's dominance. The issue here is the money isn't being spend on making content that's competitive against the commiefornia content in terms of appeal. It's that the money is being spend fruitlessly on creating a European version of Commiefornia.
e3dd61 No.15408173
>>15407727
>At this point, western movies are closer to portraying America realistically than modern series\movies.
I'd almost compare modern day America to one of those post-apocalyptic horror movies. Where the mutants are the dumbed down masses and immigrants are those in line to get the virus transforming them in those same mutants. The mutation was engineered by the same fucks who create the garbage fake culture America is portraying all over the world. Meanwhile those who try to survive are the pure blooded americans who still try to hold traditional values. I see the movie ending in a Japanese gore flick style tragedy more than the garbage hollywood ideal of "good guys always wins" at this point.
3a51f5 No.15408376
>>15407515
>Leafs had this too when cable tv was a thing, every single channel on basic cable had to show I believe at least 25% purely Canadian content.
Which was a plague on animation because Canadian cartoons were abysmal Flash-animated cheap trash like Johnny Test. Canada produces fuck-all of value.
10f14e No.15408400
1486f8 No.15408467
>>15408376
>a plague on animation
Excuse me?
10f14e No.15408618
>>15408467
>there are ancient forum posts of canucks complaining how canada didn't want to air it
It's weird how the show was harder to watch in Canada than in the US.
c0f5a4 No.15408675
>>15400351
>contact your local government representative to communicate your opinion
Yeah, I'll be sure to thank them for wrapping these lootbox shilling cocksuckers in miles of red tape like they rightfully deserve.
c69a52 No.15409853
>>15400351
Good luck changing a law in Belgium they never agree on anything and when they do, it is nearly impossible to change.
>MFW my shithole country actually did something smart
3e7fcb No.15410137
>>15409853
Fingers crossed that others take up the idea. I want this lootbox bullshit to burn.