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Star Wars Battlefront 2 style loot boxes banned in Belgium

gd6noobgd6noob Posts: 31Member Beginner
General Discussion
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/22/belgium-moves-to-ban-star-wars-battlefront-2-style-loot-boxes/


"The commission claims that purchasable add-on boxes, the contents of which are randomized, mix "money and addiction" and thus are a form of gambling."


Hawaii also made an announcement..

Papaya's Captain's Ticket also falls under this style...


Just Saying
slaaneshMaseraty

Comments

  • aceman39aceman39 Posts: 943Member Intermediate
    People just have to find things to complain about. If they didn't sell the Captain Chest then there would be no money to support the game. No money to support the game means UWO goes down the drain. 
  • slaaneshslaanesh Posts: 13Member Beginner
    They could start selling premium acount time like many other any other "Free to play" there dont sell lottery tickets
  • gd6noobgd6noob Posts: 31Member Beginner
    I did mention before the relaunch, just have everything in the cashshop on a rotating basis.. this is how Papaya will make money, people will then be willing to spend money on something they want.

    TBH, most online games are all Pay to Win.. 
  • jamesc0330jamesc0330 Posts: 28Member Beginner
    To be fair the way around this for UWO is to do what world of warships does, Sell ships for $100, I guess these game studios and server hosts will find a way around these new rules should they become enforced.

    I think it's a good thing, if people still want to gamble then there are plenty of age verification services around and could be used for those who still want to play the lucky boxes game, but hopefully this will improve all games not just UWO.

    Now all we need is online game buyers protections, to stop these senseless resets and or game hosts taking advantage.


  • KatanauwoKatanauwo Posts: 309Member Intermediate
    Korean operators just couldnt give up on lotto. Netmarble, OGP, PPP, somehow are all Korean operators, either running locally or in foreign land.

    There are many other ways to make money, but they choose to exploit a system “bug” in human psychology, ie. addiction to gambling.


  • lefox271lefox271 Posts: 495Member Intermediate
    I agree with @gd6noob

    Just put a price on everything and sell it in the shop. I'd spend more money that way.

    I don't do lotto. I will not do lotto. I get no kick from gambling, it just makes me annoyed when I don't win.

    As it is the shop doesn't sell much that I want. A few consumables that's all. I get a bit frustrated that I can't spend more.

    I would subscribe to play, but they would have to improve the shop and stop selling ships by lotto.
  • FlorianGeyerFlorianGeyer Posts: 214Member Trainee
    I get the logic of the Belgian government and there is a thing or two to say about it. I like to see what I pay for when I buy something, all the rest cannot count on my support. It is indeed in someway gambling indeed. One spends a hundred dollars and gets some awesome items, another one spends the double and gets but crap, where's the logic?

    People just like certitude in life. 
    Problem is, the rich are blinded by bling bling and will do everything to get even more rich.

    I think all is said yet in above replies. I give the Belgian government a huge thumb up, especially because I am from Belgium and I heard some more detail about it, such as children spending all their money hoping to get the bigger rewards but eventually ruin their parents wallets for crap. There should be a more controlled way in what to buy and why not a second hand market for digital objects should be legal. 

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     Flo
    Be safe and prosper!
  • MaseratyMaseraty Posts: 16Member Beginner
    Papaya's Captain Ticket are addictive and not healthy for children who play this game. I don't  know how old are the ppl who play this game (those I know have about 22-45 year old), but there are children playing and they are more vunerable to fell compelled to buy "loot boxes" because the pay-to-win aspect, and even worse, the stylish way of cash ships, remenber that they are "unique", brighter and more flashy, and who has kids, a young cousing or even work near kind know in this life phase they want be the center of attentions, and in UWO how the best way to be call attetion than a nice looking and strong ship? 

    Looks how this teenager got addicted to "free-to-play" gamble

    Considering that Payaya's needs money to run the game, in other words they need us and those who expend here, they could be more transparent maybe like kickstarts does, saying how much money they need every month just from uwo and a target meter showing if they reached they goal for that month and allowing us also ask for improvments/faster updates based if they extrapoleted the goal. 

    I don't think that a premium-account system would solve the problem because we here a "premium" style of play right now, you just need active 1 of each boost amulet for 7 or 30 days and you  are a premium player and is even better because free to play player can have acess to this premium buying then with ingame money.

    My solution is if we can't get rid of the pay-to-win aspect of the game we could at least get rid of the gamble aspect by alowing ppl know what they buying with the cash (aka uwc coin) like TheRealFaffnir suggested in Suggestion Fórum.

  • KatanauwoKatanauwo Posts: 309Member Intermediate
    I wish US / Canadian government ban in-game lotto tickets.

    There gotta be other ways to make money.

    E.g. run monthly auction on player perks such as ship has a damage reduction up to 10% when used by the particular character. Do it with lowest unique bid approach, with a bidding fee of $1.
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