SW Battlefront 2 has the lowest user score I've ever seen on Metacritic thanks to the controversy surrounding the game

[pokoko]

Ka-pi96 said:

VGPolyglot said:

The thing is, even if nobody bought microtransactions, or at least a much smaller proportion, they would still probably try to push them for the possibility of making some money off of it, as I don't know if it really negatively affects sales.

People shouldn't have to not buy the games to fix shitty (borderline illegal) business practices though. That's kind of the governments job. I remember Pokemon had the slot machines removes because European governments wouldn't allow them in the games anymore because it "encouraged kids to gamble". That was with in-game money. Now we've got all this lootbox shit as well which encourages kids to gamble much more than the slot machines in Pokemon ever did and even worse require real money. Why isn't something being done about that? At the very least games featuring those should be banned for sale to people under the legal age for gambling (I'm guessing that's why Pokemon removed them to avoid that).

Has Europe banned crane games and capsule games yet?