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Discord Has Accidentally Botted Own April Fools YouTube Video to Over 600m Views
The YouTube video ‘Discord Loot Boxes are Here’ was supposed to be just a straightforward April Fools joke that being why would Discord ever add loot boxes to a chat app? But I think it’s obvious that this little April Fool’s joke should have over 600 Million views on YouTube…
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EU Votes to Officially Investigate Loot Boxes and Microtransactions!
The debate surrounding loot boxes and microtransactions within games, despite much talk, continues to wage on. – Publishers like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Activision, etc. do not believe that they are a form of gambling, but rather ‘surprise fun mechanics’ (EA’s own words there). The thing is though that pretty much…
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EA Says Gamers “Love” Loot Boxes – In Other News, PR Team Accused of Smoking Crack!
I think it would be fair to say that despite the number of people who spend money on loot boxes, overall, the various methods of microtransactions that have continually and more pervasively crept their way into games over the last 10 years are an overwhelmingly unpopular thing within the gaming…
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UK Gives Game Industry 1 Final Warning – ‘Regulate Loot Boxes or We Will!’
You would’ve thought that the whole issue surrounding in-game loot boxes was pretty straightforward and should’ve been sorted out years ago. I mean, I think they’re a form of gambling, and what’s more, I believe that the vast majority of other people like you do as well. For many government…
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Blizzard is Hiring a Microtransactions Manager for Diablo 4
I daresay that it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the decent release of Diablo Immortal has come with more than a little controversy for Blizzard over the predatory nature of its in-game economy. – Put simply, while the game itself is actually pretty good fun, to get a truly…
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Diablo Immortal Character Max Out Costs $110,000?! (More Like Diablo Immoral!)
Diablo Immortal didn’t get off to the best of starts when it was initially revealed at Blizzcon back in 2018. – A moment somewhat cemented in the history of the internet when a moment in the Q&A led to a fan asking if this was “an out of season April…
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Gaming Legend Sid Meier Warns Devs ‘Focus More on Gameplay, Not Monetisation!’
Sid Meier is undoubtedly one of the most respected names in gaming. Well known for his highly-popular ‘Civilization‘ franchise, when he has something to say about the current state of the industry, you know it’s probably not just worth listening to, but what he has to say is probably going…
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UK Introduces New In-Game Ad/Microtransactions Rules!
Microtransactions and in-game advertisements are undoubtedly a huge and very lucrative part of gaming. Particularly so in regards to the mobile remit. For many years, however, people have increasingly voiced their concerns not only over the general nature of gambling involved in many such ‘loot box’ items but also the…
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FIFA 22 Will Introduce ‘Preview Packs’ to Battle Loot Box Controversy!
Being as fair and diplomatic as I possibly can be, the opinion of whether ‘loot boxes’ in past FIFA games is a form of gambling is devided. EA says that they are not, and (nearly) everyone else says they are. Given that you ultimately don’t know what you’re going to…
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EA Attempts to Defend Leaked ‘Loot Box’ Document
I think it would be pretty fair to say that if you were to take a general poll of gaming consumers, EA would probably come as one of the companies with the worst reputation among them. Undoubtedly, something that hasn’t helped this is the (perceived or otherwise) attempt for the…
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Loot Boxes ‘Robustly’ Linked To Gambling
There has been a long-standing argument as to whether games that feature loot box mechanics are, technically speaking, a form of gambling. Admittedly, this pretty much boils down to practically everyone saying that it is, and companies such as EA saying that it is not. However, if loot boxes are…
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EA Gets Slammed on ‘Not Needing to Spend Money’ in FUT 21
EA recently claimed that in specific regards to the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT 21) online game mode, anyone can build their ‘ultimate team’ without the requirement of spending money. Basically, they attempted to make some sort of argument against one of the online community’s biggest complaints. Namely, that it’s pay…
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Germany Proposes Law to Make Games With Loot Boxes 18+
There has been a debate for many years now as to whether loot boxes within video games are ‘ethical surprise mechanics’ (as EA would call it) or whether they are actually more accurately described as a form of gambling. The debate, however, has not stopped some countries already banning their…
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Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny (Again) as Student Blows £3,000 on FUT!
It’s a sad reality of modern gaming that many titles today have built-in ‘features’ that allow you to spend even more money on what is, for all intents and purposes, gambling mechanics. Be it currencies to accelerate processes or the purchasing of ‘loot boxes‘ for in-game items/skins, while governments around…
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CD Projekt Red Clarifies Cyberpunk 2077 “In-Game Purchases”
Fans of Cyberpunk 2077 has recently been having a good laugh at some of the content noted within the game’s age-rating applications make with the various bodies around the world. One such item, for example, was the apparent option to be able to customize your character’s genitals. Oh my! One…
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