/v/ - Video Games

>Archive with cookie warning

Good job you baka.

>lootboxes classified as gambling

topcuck.

In any standard gambling activity, be it betting, poker, slots, blackjack, pachinko you have a non-0 chance of winning money, or metal balls that conveniently unrelated store nearby is exchanging for money or prizes

In gacha shit, you don't win.

Even if you "win", you lose.

>>16055676

Looks like it is time for EA to raise the price of their games there and blame it on Belgium for being "evil"

>>16055676

your archive is fucked mate

>>16055690

>its not gambling because you always win

retard

>>16055704

>It's gambling because you win randomized worthless .jpg images you cannot sell, or trade.

You're the retard here.

>>16055676

>just in beligum

call me when its in the rest of europistan and the U.S. too

>>16055707

Reminding people that the free market is supposed to self-regulate any jewish shit like this out of the industry isn't supporting it. It's pointing out that this whole economical theory is based on false truths and wishful thinking.

>>16055718

>if the prize isn't money then it isn't gambling

keep being stupid pal

>>16055718

How is that any different then winning worthless chips you cannot sell or trade except inside the gambling house? You put money in and you get "prizes" that are of inferior quality to what you had.

>>16055689

A-archive everything r-right?

>>16055734

>you win chips

>chips get exchanged for real money.

>this doesn't happen in gachashit outside of valve gambling parlor.

Are you braindead?

>>16055732

lootboxes are worse than gambling, are you too fucking stupid to comphrehend that?

>>16055730

The thing is that there is currently no free market, whoever tells you that is the case is a thieving kike.

>>16055750

>true market was never tried

epic.

I'm sure once lolberg revolution happens information assymetry will disappear on its own.

>>16055740

>i was just pretending to be retarded

>>16055740

>They have to give you back money

In what definition of gambling does it have to be just money and not just wagered things in general?

>>16055754

>There's no free market

<IN A TRUE FREE MARKET ALL THIS KIKE BULLSHIT WOULDN'T BE REGULATED SO IT''S OK EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NO FREE MARKET AND STUFF IS REGULATED AND HOMOGENIZED FOR THE TOP KIKES

Yeah, makes loads of fucking sense

>>16055750

There would be but the governments of the world wont move in to break monopoly's that just keep competition just strong enough to avoid intervention and oligarchy's.

>>16055689

It bugged out because the site now begs you to turn off ad block and that tries to override the cookie warnings the cheeky fuckers.

>EA shareholders in panic mode

source

>>16055765

the kike bullshit is the regulations

>>16055761

>It's gambling and not a predatory scam because you win jpgs you can't even do anything with.

>>16055765

<In a true free market every man would be a perfect ubermensch that isn't swayed by biases, emotion and only uses facts.

Unless of course the companies producing food witholds the information on the contents and additives because there's no reason not to.

>>16055767

And all participants in the free market would compete fairly, and for fun, not to establish monopoly by any means necessary.

We're going into communism-tier delusions, but at least in a communist fantasy you have a hivemind society that looks out for each other.

>>16055767

Those monopolies are kept by the state, some even directly funded.

>>16055775

That's what I'm referring to

There are tons of hoops specifically designed to keep people from competing with the top dogs, many of which are century old and never had said regulations in the first palce.

>>16055778

>>16055779

No ones spouting lolbertarian propaganda you shit for brains

I'm fucking mocking them for ever defending this shit because "muh free market" when we never had a free market in the first place.

>>16055786

>When you have high regulations the kikes can kike the government in to creating the exact regulations

Except we have both right now

>>16055780

>Government vanishes overnight

>Net worth of companies in BTC stays exactly the same

>mom and pop start a soft drink company that has a product superior in every way to cola and pepsi

Name one thing stopping either of those corporations from buying them out, or sending a heroin addict to shiv the Mom and pop before it becomes a competitor in case they refuse.

>>16055697

You joke about this but this is exactly what's gonna happen, you'll see mudslimes complaining about it

If Konami was any smart they'd make a free version of the same shit EA has done

>>16055732

Aren't lootboxes just electronic versions of booster packs?

Are booster packs in trading cards gambling?

>>16055676

>EA got bullied by itty-bitty-tiny belgium

good job faggots, may many french fries and german beer come your way.

>>16055730

>economical theory

>with addicts

no.

just, no.

and also because >>16055750

>>16055778

>looks out for each other

mostly to check who got the most meat remaining on his bones.

>>16055750

>TRUE CAPITALISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED

>>16055730

>the free market is supposed to self-regulate

Why can't I buy a lightbulb that isn't engineered to failed after X amount of hours that was regulated by oppressive government, Y amount of turning it on.

Or any other appliance that doesn't have planned obsolence

Why was Aureal killed by creative?

>>16055778

>predatory scam

The issue is normalfags see nothing wrong with paying money for useless digital items. Then you have kike lawyers who might argue the validity of digital items and crap. It would be nice to call it a scam, but it would appear easier to call it out as gambling to shut it down.

Retribution is coming for EA, you are too big to hide

>>16055799

>He's still pretending I'm a lolbertarian because a free market retard hurt his butt

Jesus fuck, read the thread you shit for brains nigger.

>>16055810

A free market will just lead you to something out of of the Industrial Revolution.

Right now we have too much freedom for the people with the right connections and money and too many regulations for startups.

>>16055814

>Capitalism = Free market

Stupid dumb commie scum

Hey guys, are we discussing video games in this thread?

>>16055835

oy vey

Any new development on lootboxes on the US side of things?

>>16055786

>Kiked if you do, kiked if you don't.

I think a better solution would be to round up all the kikes.

>>16055836

come on, would a communist EVER lie to you?

>>16055835

I don’t know anon

What does the industrial revolution and diesel have to do with vidya?

>>16055839

The 20 year funpay minibuy war starts and ends with Todd.

>>16055824

>>16055847

If you don't understand the relevance that lootboxes or their absence has to videogames then you are too stupid to post here.

>>16055862

So Volkswagens and diesel are loot boxes?

>>16055829

>>therefore you should support communism

That's right goy, there are only two systems

Good goy, have a star in recognition of your goodness. ✡

>>16055830

>Literally hundreds of thousands of people have died from the increased pollution of diesel

I think you mean hundreds of gorillians.

Jews are already beginning to shit this place up after they killed /pol/. Jesus christ.

Anyone who refuses to argue logically and face facts is either a shill, or is acting in bad faith otherwise. Ignore them. It's the same old yiddish playbook.

>>16055896

>We can measure the effect that has on peoples long health. Its about 40,000 deaths per year.

Actually, it's 6 million jewish deaths per year.

>Go into Casino

>Trade money for chips

>Gamble

>Trade Chips in for Money

>Leave richer or poorer

>Video Games

>They give you all of the winnings when you enter into it

>But they lock the winnings away behind fake money gating

>Trade real money in for fake money

>Gamble for a chance to access the prizes you already have

>Leave the casino with neither your money or the prizes

The fuckery of it is that casinos are at least held accountable for their fake money, because it translates directly into real money. If they lose more of their fake money than they have real money to pay it off - they go broke and have to sell off assets. In video games, their fake money and prizes are all created at the outset for a pittance and then duplicated infinitely - so they will never go broke on them and have no accountability. There is no risk to them, so as long as they can get people in the door - the entire loss state is offloaded on the player/payer.

>>16055899

Prove otherwise. Explain your reasoning. Otherwise, everyone here should ignore you.

>>16055824

V I D E O G A M E S ?

Fuck off you dumb fucking niggerfaggot, this is /pol/

>>16055912

/pol/ got fucking raped and mindfucked, which means /pol/acks are coming here. Once we begin actively trying to shut down all conversations about videogames, you can complain. Codemonkey is the one who killed /pol/ so scream at him.

>>16055923

>/pol/ is kill

What happened?

>>16055896

faggot, it's propaganda.

just happen that diesel engines are the most effective at extracting Energy out of the fuel they consume.

which means less $$ for same work.

Now who could have a problem with that and spew all kinds of over the top crap because it hurt their bottom line, eh?

Hell, they'll even slap green paint on it, because ecolo tards will allways be huge retards.

the same that fucking destroyed superphenix, a techno that would have divided by 18 the Uranium consumption of nuke plants.

Never EVER trust a greenie.

it's green on the outside, but red on the inside.

>>16055924

I remember numerous complaints of the old BO, codemonkey took control

>>16055923

>/pol/ fleeing /pol/ to the safe haven of a board owned by a Jew.

poetic

>>16055896

>Nitrus Oxide

non toxic

>soot

People can smoke cigarettes their entire lives until their lungs actually turn black from the soot, only to die of cancer instead. Yet somehow trace amounts of diesel exhaust are causing people to drop like flies? Bullshit. I don't support pollution if it can be avoided, and it's probably a good thing that the diesel cars are removed, but there is no need to lie about it.

>>16055924

First Jim Watkins took over 8chan from Frederick Brennan, which led to 8chan itself becoming a U.S. government honeypot hosted on federal government servers, which led to Jim Watkins forcing 8chan in the direction of supporting Trump in the 2016 election, which led to Imkampfy a Turkish immigrant becoming moderator of 8chan and completely destroying the board, which led to Codemonkey "ousting" him and turning /pol/ into a

"Free speech board"

With basically no rules.

>>16055830

>Literally hundreds of thousands of people have died from the increased pollution of diesel

My sides were not prepared

>>16055940

*becoming moderator of /pol/.

>>16055938

He said hundreds of people died, not thousands or more. Why are you complaining? Is it so hard for you to comprehend that only a few people died from diesel pollution?

>>16055948

>slaughtering millions of people

Calm down before you give yourself a heart attack. He said hundreds of people died from diesel. You are blowing this out of proportion, maybe in an attempt to destroy /v/.

>oy vey those goyim are shittalking lootboxes

>Shut it down chaim with anything else!

Great derailing faggots.

>>16055966

> and which country is more or less cucked

Nah that's last weeks derail bait, looks like they are learning.

>>16055806

>Aren't lootboxes just electronic versions of booster packs?

>Are booster packs in trading cards gambling?

Well, yes. And they should be removed from the world too. CCGs are cancer, just like loot boxes. What do you think was the inspiration for the damnable things?

>>16055932

>not true

gee, why the hell do we not use that in boats then?

you know, the stuff that runs on a dime, and is absolutely capital to world trade.

maybe because it's not efficient?

<Toyota prius

lel

>>16055952

he said hundreds of thousands

at a decimal closer, and we would have had the 6 gorillion.

>>16055968

>muh asian companies are getting cockblocked by meanie EU régulations

BOATS, FAGGOT, BOATS.

no regulation on these and guess what?

DIESEL.

because your shit sucks, and you're trying to find excuses.

Fucking hell, weebs truly are subhuman trash.

>>16055911

>Post a video of yourself huffing laughing gas and smoking cigarettes.

Sounds like a fun time.

Boy, I sure do love video games. Not super big on talking about diesel and petrol though

>>16055830

>pollution

>of fucking diesel

i dont have areaction image for this shit

I misread his post as hundreds, not hundreds of thousands. In which case, what about the coal power plant emissions which create electricity used in electric cars? Or deaths from obtaining petroleum and producing gasoline? It's very convoluted to measure how many deaths an environmental factor causes. What about deaths from gasoline vehicle emissions?

>>16055732

It's even worse you get nothing so gambling is less harmful. Should be banned entirely.

>>16056015

Come on now. You really think it's so far fetched that global warming is a hoax when we know about how Jews operate? Or are you against muh ebul antisemitism?

>>16055947

see

>>16055830

Don't try to weasel out of this.

>>16056034

I already admitted he said hundreds of thousands, not hundreds and I misread his post.

>>16056010

>>16055999

>cargo ships use diesel

Do you live in Hong Kong?

>>16056038

Yes, but pollution is just a consequence of the modern industrial world. Workers are still dying from lung diseases developed from working in mines, silicosis from working with granite, brain cancer from EMF, cancer from all the chemicals mankind put in the environment, poor quality food, etc.

Generally, it's unavoidable. People will either die from infectious diseases, like in the 1800s and backwards, or artificial disease causing factors.

>>16055865

I now see what you were complaining about. Apologies.

GEE, IT SURE IS VIDEO GAMES AROUND HERE

>>16056100

The people dying now from horrendous air pollution in China are sacrificing their lives for generations after them to live with a strong economy created by unregulated industry.

People didn't even know about health effects from pollution when the industrial revolution first began in the 1700s. The industrial revolution allowed modern science to develop, which led to the discovery of health effects from pollution.

Modern science wouldn't exist, if the materials to build lab equipment had stayed untouched, if workers hadn't been killed by the unsafe conditions required at the time to extract them.

China is already regulating their industry. And their economy is already faltering. Mankind is living in the end of days, anyway. We will be killed off the coming apocalypse.

>>16056119

>Mankind is living in the end of days, anyway. We will be killed off the coming apocalypse.

This is how I know you're lying. We're not that lucky.

>>16056109

Yeah you're right. How could he spread such pointless lies? The average Chinese citizen dies in their mid 30s from an industrial accident, not smog. Duh.

>>16056128

Many places in China have living standards close to those found in America. But Chinese are buglike, and under Jewish control just like America.

>>16056138

>Many places in China have living standards close to those found in America

So does every country. That doesn't mean shit to everyone else living outside of a highrise or the capitol building. The average homeless person in America can expect to live better than many citizens in many nations.

>>16056162

>He doesn't even sage

I can see that you're definitely here to contribute to a worthwhile discussion. Stellar post.

>>16056156

>>16056161

>Giving any fucks at all about the environment when a supervolcano will render entire continents inhospitable within several millennia anyway

I honestly don't understand why anyone gives a fuck about global warming. Niggers need to gain some perspective and realize that the cosmos doesn't give a fuck about your humanity.

>>16055750

>create free market

>monopoly becomes too big to be challenged

>it fucks up everyone else

>the free market ends

This is why lolbergs are a meme

Well done Belgium, kill these fucking kikes.

>>16056124

>They tried to solve it by planting huge man mande forests but unfortunately they just blocked the wind and made the smog problem worse.

>instead of using CY+4 tech that doesnt pollute so much

>instead of acquiring knowledge that use less resources to make the same product

how can they solve a problem is they dont know the cause of it in the first place?

>>16056176

I think dying to heroin abuse takes slightly less time than suffocating the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. I might be wrong though, you're clearly the expert here.

>>16056027

The lobergtarian party is retarded for sure. What we need is libertarian economics for citizens, combined with an ethnonationaist federal government responsible for border protection.

>Belgium forces lootboxes out of FIFA

>FIFA

how o you even put loot boxes in a soccer game?

>>16056232

the fuck

>>16056231

In a free market environment only the best come out on top, naturally.

>Yugioh could die, and your cards become worthless because no one plays it. Or your rare overpowered card could be powercreeped and rendered worthless.

True, but at the same time you could still sell your card to a collector in 20 years or so and potentially turn a profit on it, because it's a physical item that exists in the real world. The same can't be said for lootboxes.

>>16056245

meant to reply to

>>16056225

>>16056236

Define "best." I mean Jews are the best at being conniving, lying swindling usurers, so are they the "best"? Ultimately their actions will lead to the destruction of the human species. But if a 2nd Hitler rises, his actions would save humanity by creating a self sustaining society which doesn't allow inferior races.

>>16056251

Huh? You do realize that Jews are responsible for most of the problems in the videogame industry? And created the SJW phenomenon? Or am I mistaken and you are the kind of person who loves Facebook and Reddit?

>>16056248

Survival of the fittest, those that survive and thrive are good at surviving (^:

Obviously a parasite is superior being to the host.

Read my previous post, switch to keto diet to help with your autism otherwise.

>>16056213

The lol thread is that a way.

>>16056061

I think you don't know what money laundering is if you think card games have to do with that.

They are a huge money sink, but if you've got money to burn, there are worse things you could burn it on.

>>16055740

This is a really fucking stupid hill to die on. Loot boxes are only loosely comparable to gambling. The stakes are generally much lower, in that you know what you could get. Whether you "win" or not is a matter of getting what you want. If you want to spend thousands to "win" a skin, you can. Or you can, you know, not be retarded?

This is true of real gambling as well to some extent, but unlike real gambling, you can feasibly spend $10 or something on loot boxes for "fun" (aka dopamine hit). Real gambling is usually solely whale territory. The only real issue is kids getting their hands on credit cards, since they have no self control. But fuck any parent retarded enough to let their kid touch these games, let alone have access to credit.

>>16056204

No, you're not sure. And neither is anyone who claims to be.

>>16056343

I was joking, but I have seen a ton of shady shit going on with Magic cards.l thanks to my old college roommate. Don't you think it's a little weird that you can invest in a piece of paper that is worth far more than the ink and art uaed to make it, and it never seems to depreciate?

>>16056367

Can you really not think of any reason to lock this thread?

>>16056368

>there are threads on the board over 3 weeks old

Man, this site got slow.

>>16056375

i like it. it means we went back to being a niche community instead of being flooded with retards and normalfags

>>16056375

It's a return to form, the 2015 server issues era hosted the best discussion the site has seen. As far as imageboards are concerned, smaller communities are less shit.

>>16056386

>we got back to be a small community

>but second wave exodus left and we are stuck with the shitposter

wakemeup.png

>>16056441

i dont see that many shitposters that look new. its the same old people. discussing the same old games. hell i see a lot less shitposting these days, bar the retarded nigger with the bot, you know who.

>>16055676

>EA will no longer offer FIFA Points for sale in Belgium.

>Following the loot box controversy in Europe, EA has announced that it will concede to Belgian authorities and stop selling FIFA Points in the country, to fall in line with local gambling laws.

>“After further discussions with the Belgian authorities, we have decided to stop offering FIFA Points for sale in Belgium,” reads the publisher’s statement.

>The change will come into effect on PC and console by January 31, 2019, meaning that players won’t be able use real money to pay for loot boxes. Instead, in-game content can be unlocked through gameplay, “as has always been the case.”

>Any existing FIFA Points on players’ accounts can be spent, but you won’t be able to buy any more.

>The Belgian Gaming Commission classified loot boxes as gambling last year, and filed a complaint against EA when the publisher refused to remove loot boxes from its FIFA titles.

>“While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities’ interpretation of the law, and we will continue to seek more clarity on the matter as we go forward. The impact of this change to FIFA Ultimate Team in Belgium is not material to our financial performance,” EA added.

Since the article is bugged in the archive.

>>16056228

They have that ultimate team thing, I'm guessing they lock players behind lootboxes.

>>16056628

>…continue to seek more clarity

It's illegal you kikes, that clear enough?

EA will no longer offer FIFA Points for sale in Belgium.

Following the loot box controversy in Europe, EA has announced that it will concede to Belgian authorities and stop selling FIFA Points in the country, to fall in line with local gambling laws.

“After further discussions with the Belgian authorities, we have decided to stop offering FIFA Points for sale in Belgium,” reads the publisher’s statement.

The change will come into effect on PC and console by January 31, 2019, meaning that players won’t be able use real money to pay for loot boxes. Instead, in-game content can be unlocked through gameplay, “as has always been the case.”

Any existing FIFA Points on players’ accounts can be spent, but you won’t be able to buy any more.

The Belgian Gaming Commission classified loot boxes as gambling last year, and filed a complaint against EA when the publisher refused to remove loot boxes from its FIFA titles.

“While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities’ interpretation of the law, and we will continue to seek more clarity on the matter as we go forward. The impact of this change to FIFA Ultimate Team in Belgium is not material to our financial performance,” EA added.

>>16056647

>more clarity

it means they gonna bribe more EU politicians

I am a libertarian myself and sometimes I have asked around for the sake of discussion, there are people out there that say anything based on money is bad, that our (3rd world) country should just become self sustainable and we should just labor for ourselves to get only what's needed akin to the Amish (their words), when I asked one of them why he still hasn't gone that path himself he said he needed at least 2 acres to begin.

On topic, as someone already mentioned, the problem is, the big guys are a little too big right now, before considering a free market in our particular case those big guys would need to be severely audited first.

>>16057437

She reminds me of a trap I banged once.

Well, not quite banged, more like dry stuff.

>>16057463

>>16057462

Did he give you AIDS?

>>16057472

Obviously not due to the aforementioned detail (we ran out of rubbers, wouldn't risk it.)

it's called illegal gambling and you mutts are kiked for allowing it in the first place.

why does all the shit always come out of muttland. get a fucking grip you zionist carpets.

>lootboxes aren't gambling

>there's a rise in youth gambling addiction

I wonder what introduced them to gambling. Not lootboxes though, those aren't gambling. Nuh uh.