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Loot boxes and Micro-transactions

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  • #1102
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    GTA online added in their Casino to the game, dependant on the country particular laws you can or can't use the money you got from the shark cards to buy the chips in the casino.


  • #1103
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I have a friend in Luxembourg and their gambling laws are such that he's not even allowed to spin a "free to play" wheel in the GTA Casino.


  • #1104
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Shiminay wrote: »
    I have a friend in Luxembourg and their gambling laws are such that he's not even allowed to spin a "free to play" wheel in the GTA Casino.

    Which is funny cause most of these companies at least legally are based there, always see it on receipts & invoices.


  • #1105
    Robert ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭Robert ninja


    l5CKhLj.gif

    I think this is the face of the investors, not the players


  • #1106
    gimli2112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,409 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    dohboy wrote: »
    I played Fruit Machine Simulator on the Amstrad for hours as a kid. Didn't turn me into a gambling addict tbh.
    They're not a problem for people without a problem.


    Always remember a guy from college watching me playing poker on a machine, saying he had never tried it before, I had to head off and when I came back from the weekend he told me he'd lost everything he had. Granted we were students with little to lose, I once lost a whole week's budget on Liverpool but it taught me a lesson about sure things and gambling.


  • #1107
    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    Varik wrote: »
    Which is funny cause most of these companies at least legally are based there, always see it on receipts & invoices.

    I believe the practice is called 'you dont get high, on your own supply' :D


  • #1108
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,731 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    https://twitter.com/LegacyKillaHD/status/1172216698721710080

    Activision up to their usual tricks for COD.


  • #1109
    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/LegacyKillaHD/status/1172216698721710080

    Activision up to their usual tricks for COD.

    yeah, they've done that with the last few games, it launches with very little microtrans and within 6 months it looks completely different.

    I liked black ops 4, but the state of it now is genuinely off putting.
    the sad part is, if there was a €5 microtransaction, that would make it so that i can't see the horrible sh1te that other players have equipped.... I'd nearly pay it.


  • #1110
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »
    yeah, they've done that with the last few games, it launches with very little microtrans and within 6 months it looks completely different.

    I liked black ops 4, but the state of it now is genuinely off putting.
    the sad part is, if there was a €5 microtransaction, that would make it so that i can't see the horrible sh1te that other players have equipped.... I'd nearly pay it.

    There was an option like that in BF hardline, doubt you'll ever get that again in any game. If there's a 0.000000001% chance you'll see something and then want to buy it they'll go for that.


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  • #1111
    sniper_samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭sniper_samurai


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/LegacyKillaHD/status/1172216698721710080

    Activision up to their usual tricks for COD.

    It is being done this way to fool the ERSB. Games in the US now have to state if they have microtransactions, if there are none at launch all the physical copies wont have that marked on them though the digital rating will be adjusted accordingly.


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