| JRPGfan said: everyone loves lootbox's right? Next up : Netflix.... what movies can you watch tonight? try a lootbox. |
This is one of the pradoxes that always boggles my mind: People seem to universally agree that loot boxes and micro transactions are a cancer for gamers and yet according to figures released by the industry, micro transactions and lootboxes rake in a shitload of money to the shady corporations that implement them (Ubisoft, EA, Activision I'm looking at you three in particular).
In other words people don't like them but can't stop buying into them. People use loot boxes and micro transactions like there is no tomorrow. Talk about a case of sheep willingly going to the slaughterhouse.
Some say that "whales" (that's what the morons who keep paying for those loot boxes and micro transactions are called) are a small minority but when I hear that these swindles earn Billions (not millions in case you think it's a typo, but BILLIONS) to those companies, I'm having a real hard time believing a small minority of people can spend so much money that they can bring in so much cash to those companies. The math does not seem to add up but yeah, I don't know.
