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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by portaouflop on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:55AM (#45692827)
Loot boxes in itself are the problem.

You can’t make a non-toxic free2play game.

People need to buy from stores like GoG and stop supporting f2p games at all.

Of course that’s never going to happen; an entire generation was raised on f2p

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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by Dylan16807 on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:39AM (#45693171)
Free to play doesn't imply loot box or exploitative consumables. Any game with a fixed set of purchases is probably fine. Lots of season passes too.
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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by ndriscoll on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:17AM (#45694307)
You can make a non-toxic, high quality free to play game, e.g. Beyond All Reason. Of course there will be no marketing budget for that game so most people won't know it's there.
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