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Re:EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due... by lechiffre10 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:21AM (#17969654)
They were also heavily criticized for adopting this game mechanic in star wars battlefront and eventually decided to drop it. I don't even understand the appeal of wanting to play games that have this sort of predatory feature.

It's been around for a while and I've honestly never even been remotely attracted to games like that.

I definitely feel like this has exponentially increased since iOS games called 'freemium'. Generally, the game will be free but then things can take 30minutes to be accomplished unless you buy diamonds that cost 1$ and you get instant gratification.

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Re:EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:40PM (#17970550)
" I don't even understand the appeal of wanting to play games that have this sort of predatory feature."

I mean, it's not like you get to choose between the version of the game that has this vs the one that doesn't.

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Re:EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due... by m000z0rz on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:18PM (#17970936)
But you can choose to play games that don't have the feature. When Android was first starting, I wanted to get into gaming on my phone - but these days I don't bother, even if I hear good things about a game, because the odds are too great that it's ruined with freemium crap if it's on mobile.
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Re:EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due... by pixl97 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:37PM (#17975219)
Social pressures are another problem though with multiplayer games.

Your friends play x

You dont like x for reason y

Which is stronger, your dislike of y or the enjoyment of playing x with friends.

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Re:EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due... by ihuman on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:41AM (#17969878)
> I don't even understand the appeal of wanting to play games that have this sort of predatory feature.

For some people, the fun of the real gameplay outways the negative of the lootboxes

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