Year of the Loot Boxes
Nov. 14th, 2017 06:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000So yeah, looks like EA is going full throttle (ahaha) with Loot boxes in all their games going forward.
I'd be more angry if I ever had an impulse to buy an EA game, but that doesn't mean I'm not unaffected entirely. As predicted, microtransactions and loot boxes are polluting full price games now after they were such a hit with the free to play crowd.
This is why the free to play crowd (The gamers) really should have known better than to fork over shitloads of money playing those types of games.
About all I can say is how I feel I suppose. No matter how shitty, how expensive, or how lazy the game industry is currently - there is no ceiling (no bottom of the pit?) that we're standing at. If you encourage it by forking your money over, it's just empowering them to take that next step for the next half assed game they put out.
*update*
Another link I found, showing exactly how uninspired yet fitting my subject line is.
I'd be more angry if I ever had an impulse to buy an EA game, but that doesn't mean I'm not unaffected entirely. As predicted, microtransactions and loot boxes are polluting full price games now after they were such a hit with the free to play crowd.
This is why the free to play crowd (The gamers) really should have known better than to fork over shitloads of money playing those types of games.
About all I can say is how I feel I suppose. No matter how shitty, how expensive, or how lazy the game industry is currently - there is no ceiling (no bottom of the pit?) that we're standing at. If you encourage it by forking your money over, it's just empowering them to take that next step for the next half assed game they put out.
*update*
Another link I found, showing exactly how uninspired yet fitting my subject line is.
