ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 week ago
No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It’s gambling. It’s advertised to children.
It doesn’t matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.
Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 1 week ago
If we lived in a just world, all loot boxes and other pay-for-random-things would be outlawed completely. It is gambling and it is directed at kids, yet there’s zero oversight or regulation the way gambling is regulated everywhere else.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 week ago
I don’t know aboit the new FH6, but I always really liked how Forza Horizon does it. Because it does not cost anything. You just get an endless stream of wheel spins and random drops. There isn’t even a way to buy them at all.
You get thst sort of, “Randomized dopamine hit” but its just part of the game.
a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Vampire Survivors had it, kinda. It was just miniboss drops, random, like a typical hack and slash, but opening a chest looked like a silly slot machine animation jacking straight into my gambler brain (I don’t actually gamble - I have many other bad habits but I realized I might be wired dangerously back when I played cards for small sums of money with my classmates as a teenager. So I actively swore off gambling and never fell for it, apart from “fake” gambling in video games, where I’m always reminded of why I shouldn’t touch it in real life)
gila@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Cloverpit is a roguelike where the gameplay is literally just playing a slot machine