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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by TulliusCicero on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:59PM (#46142879)
Very few people have a problem with just paying for cosmetics in a game. The main issue here is that it's gambling for cosmetics, rather than straightforwardly purchasing specific items.
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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by thesnide on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:59AM (#46144949)
indeed. and the fact that it can be resold at will makes it much worse as you just created an gambling ecosystem
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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by LinXitoW on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:39AM (#46146046)
Most people do have an issue with it, because every game that's replaced loot boxes with discrete cosmetics purchases has to then massively increase the price of them. For 20 bucks in Overwatch 1, you got (afaik) 10 loot boxes which all had 4 random items. In Overwatch 2 20 bucks barely gets you single good skin.

It's very much a grass is greener type of situation in my experience, having been part of communities of both types of games.

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