Tag: loot boxes
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Selling Games & Making Money Without Loot Boxes
Log onto any gaming news site or type in a specific hashtag on Twitter, and you’ll get the impression that these are the end days for gaming. While some players frequently cry wolf about the medium’s death, it would be remiss to discount the level of discussion and spite being thrown in the direction of…
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Sympathy for the Devil: What if EA isn’t Evil?
Hating specific developers and publishers seems to be a bit of an obsession for gamers. People hated Sean Murray for being dishonest regarding No Man’s Sky, Warner for not having its priorities right, and EA for being a greedy cash grab. The latter has had a particularly hard time. This is mostly due to their high…
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You Won’t Like the Solution to the Loot Box Problem
There’s no such thing as a good loot box, all of them are capital ‘B’ for Bad no matter which way you slice them. We’ve established that much: so what are we going to do about it? As NPD analyst Mat Piscatella outlined to GamesIndustry.biz, for all the furore and the calls for boycotts, the…
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The Fortnite Fortnitemares Update Is Cool, But Doesn’t Fix Loot Boxes
Fortnite’s new update brings players Fortnitemares, an appropriately spooky event arriving just in time for Halloween. The event contains 25 new story quests, Spooky Llamas, new weapons, and new themed heroes. (The themed heroes look like new skins.) All of this is awesome. I love in-game events that reel me back in. I’m also totes…
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There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Good’ Loot Box
In the last few weeks, much has been written about video game loot boxes. The articles and social media posts have raised some pertinent questions: ‘are loot boxes gambling?’ and ‘is it right that children have access to them?’ being just a couple of examples. But time and time again I’m seeing the argument come…