Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand
Where is all this outrage when they do the same thing with...
...baseball cards
...happy meal toys
...carnival games
...gumball machines
...cereal box prizes
...skee ball
...anything collectible



On top of this, loot systems are designed to maximise use through carefully crafted audio and visual design. In interviews with my colleague Cecilia D'Anastasio earlier this year, the designers from games like Overwatch and Duelyst explain how their crates are designed to be a pleasurable experience.


"When you start opening a loot box, we want to build anticipation," an Overwatch developer said. "We do this in a lot of ways -- animations, camera work, spinning plates, and sounds. We even build a little anticipation with the glow that emits from a loot box's cracks before you open it."


Moment for moment, loot boxes are engineered to capture attention with a mixture of spectacle and psychological trickery not unlike what you might find at a slot machine.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/10/lo...to-exploit-us/


Explain to me how this resembles opening a happy meal, a baseball card or a cracker jack. Also, please do tell me if they kempt chargning you every time you openend the same happy meal, baseball card pack or cracker jack box. Because that's what they do nowadays. Play NBA Live 2018 and you will know what I'm talking about.


If you can't understand or don't want to understand that THESE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS, I can only tell you to enjoy your pure bliss.


Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand
...virtually every iphone and android video game ever created

DO you recall PAYING MONEY UPFRONT for any of these? Did you pay to download Pokemon Go?


Now, AAA publishers want to charge you upfront AND charge you the micro's AND charge you for lootboxes AND hamper your progression as well.




Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand
This reminds me of a Mitch Hedberg line that kinda goes like this...."I saw an ad for a casino and they showed a guy winning money. That's false advertising cause that's what happens the least! It's like if I advertised a hamburger by showing a guy choking!"


It's a funny gripe but if you're truly miffed because a business uses a positive spin to advertise its products....then I might recommend some anger management.


Furthermore, if you're just jealous of what other people have, then again...therapy might be the answer.



LOL, you are truly fucking trollin' or you are really the densest human being in the world




Hahahahahaha




Dude, Activision patented this. A fucking patent. On exactly this that you are calling me "jealous" and "needing therapy" for being "truly miffed because a business uses a positive spin to advertise its products". They went to the USPTO with their "positive spin".


https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/...h-matchmaking/


Now, when you die in EA's Battlefront 2, you get shown exactly which cards were used to kill you with.


It would be the LOL if Activision sued EA for the right to be the scumbaggiest company


Now that's a positive spin