Belgium says loot boxes are gambling, wants them banned in Europe

[Errorist76]

OdinHades said:

Errorist76 said:
I want to rise a point of discussion:

What in your opinion would be a possible alternative in order to raise revenue for developers and publishers, to compensate for ever rising development costs?

I’ve been gaming since 35 years and tbh it feels as game prices have never adapted to inflation. We still basically pay the same as we did 20 years ago.

Would you accept rising game prices instead?!

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Yes. Rising game prices would be transparent and fair. Everybody would knew what they are up for. But loot boxes are just trying to exploit people and especially those that can't control themselves. The tactics are very well known in gambling and by drug dealers and there is a very good reason why both of that is strictly regulated in most countries in the world.

Besides that, rising development costs are a myth. They have been pretty flat in the last 10 years or so. Plus gaming grew astronomically in the last 35 years. The games may cost the same, but especially the big publishers sell 10 times more of them. So there really was never a reason to raise prices, which is why it never happened.

 

Thank you for your comment. I totally agree on your first comment. Do you have some proof for the second part though?I kind of doubt it actually. In the other thread with PS4 million sellers numbers for PS2 and PS3 showed there were considerably more million sellers back then, definitely not way less. (Of course it’s still early in PS4’s gen, but still...would like to know some hard facts)

Last edited by Errorist76 - on 22 November 2017