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KManX89 on 01 December 2018
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VAMatt said:
Mar1217 said:

Do you really think an industry who's so peer on getting as much money as possible will try to honestly regulate itself ? Not when billion of dollars made by these f**k ass microtransactions/loot-boxes is weighting in the balance of their financials. They'll do everything just to squeeze consummers to the last drop just to please a bunch of share holders that give no single f**k about the content of this industry. And if we go by economics history, if this keeps going, the economic bubble will burst and the western industry will collapse.

Literally every industry is trying to get as much money as possible.  That's the point of business.  And, yes, the video game industry has given us a great example of self-regulation.  You may not remember, but there was much whining about violence in video games in the early 1990s.  So, the publishers formed the ESRB to rate games.  

Loot boxes absolutely have been scaled back, generally speaking, since their peak 1-2 years ago.  There's just no denying that.  They haven't gone away, nor do they need to.  They just went to far, realized their mistake, and pulled back.  That's exactly how it is supposed to work.  

If government gets involved, what we'll see is a prohibition on loot boxes.  But, games won't suddenly cost less money to make and market.  So, the lost revenue will be made up elsewhere.  How does that help anyone?  Right now a big chunk of that money is paid by people who enjoy buying loot boxes.  After regulation, those costs will be paid by every gamer.  Nobody gets to enjoy loot boxes, but everybody gets to pay.  No thanks.  

More importantly though, people buy and play games of their own free will.  If one doesn't like loot boxes, one should not buy games that have them.  Whining to government to remove them from games is just a cop out.  Gamers (and parents, in many cases) need to take responsibility for their actions (or those of their young children) and not try to ruin the fun for the rest of us.  

Film studios make way less on movies without far bigger budgets to recoup to boot yet you don’t see them do shit like charging extra to see the ending, now do you? Because that’s essentially, no wait, that IS what game developers/publishers are doing with their games and a whole lot more. If companies in any other industry did this shit, they’d be in fucking jail, yet somehow they get a pass. No way should any gamer worth their salt just blindly take their scummy business practices lying down. If they don’t speak up, the terrorists have won.