Tag: Star Wars Battlefront 2
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2018: The Year of Mistakes for Gaming
2018 is drawing to a close pretty soon, witch makes it a good time to look back at the year and examine what has occurred in the world of gaming. We do this partially so that we can learn about our favourite industry, and partially because it is only by realising the mistakes we made…
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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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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…