• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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    3 months ago

    No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It’s gambling. It’s advertised to children.

    It doesn’t matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      If we lived in a just world, all loot boxes and other pay-for-random-things would be outlawed completely. It is gambling and it is directed at kids, yet there’s zero oversight or regulation the way gambling is regulated everywhere else.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t know aboit the new FH6, but I always really liked how Forza Horizon does it. Because it does not cost anything. You just get an endless stream of wheel spins and random drops. There isn’t even a way to buy them at all.

        You get thst sort of, “Randomized dopamine hit” but its just part of the game.