DLCs used to be accepted. Then they started to cut out content to offer it as DLC. Started shipping games out incomplete, full price, and then offer the rest as DLC.

Microtransactions were accepted, then they started hampering progression in full priced games down to a crawl unless you pay up to progress faster. NBA 2K franchise is notorious for this. The game would cost $60, and yet you could buyt $100 in virtual currency to buy shit like green shoes and bandannas.

Then came the now ubiquitous lootboxes. In which now you have to spend real money for a chance in getting what you really want. This, of course, accompanied by all sorts of psychological manipulation and slot machine tactics and creations of Skinner's environments. You spend the money, but you don't actually get what you want right away; you have to keep spending money for more tries at getting what you want. In the meantime, what other players have keeps getting shoved in your face more and more prominently. All the while making it more difficult to earn said credits to being able to afford the lootboxes, which if you don't have you will keep having your ass handed to you over and over again, forcing you to pay up to compete. All of this happening in a full price game THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT (LOL at playing for $0).

The rhetoric ithat these AAA publishers will offer you is that it isn't gambling. My stance is that it fucking IS gambling. And if it IS gambling, then how the fuck can it be allowed to be advertised to children? To be in the hands of and marketed to fucking kids?

Quote Originally Posted by Banana
This is the saddest and most pathetic of all of your arguments dude. I don't believe for a fucking second that you're really moved at all by any concern regarding children. I think it's just a convenient argument that you're co-opting to help keep your games cheap.
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