Everything that’s like a lootbox is an abuse of predictable irrationality for limitless quantities of your money, and every complicated new “monetization technique” is exactly like a lootbox. There is no ethical form of this concept. We’ve seen where it always leads and it’s making the entire medium objectively worse for all of us. It’s engineered dissatisfaction.
Exploiting frustration is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
Ban all forms of taking money inside games.
Not: ban selling games.
Not: ban subscriptions.
Everything that’s like a lootbox is an abuse of predictable irrationality for limitless quantities of your money, and every complicated new “monetization technique” is exactly like a lootbox. There is no ethical form of this concept. We’ve seen where it always leads and it’s making the entire medium objectively worse for all of us. It’s engineered dissatisfaction.
Exploiting frustration is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
Only legislation will fix this.