How the UK is Fighting Back Against Loot Boxes
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YongYea The Publishers Activision and EA can shove the lootboxes to their ugly Ass.
I am proud to be british again
@YongYea If you have not checked out the CZcams Channel "Pretty Good Gaming" . They are are against loot boxes and micro transactions as much as you are! Keep fighting the good fight! Tac
at least ghost games is not doing this yet.
YongYea to be fair, you have to have a high IQ level to understand how to understand what it means to have a high IQ level.
Problem with ESRB, is they do just about nothing, I mean the activision straight up said that CoD is aimed at being marketed to children, despite it holding an M rating.
It'll be a start at least. Parents may think twice about buying a game if there is an ESRB warning that says gambling with real money is involved.
Good luck getting them to give a shit, though.
The point of the ESRB is to help the parents decide what is right for their child. That's why they hold no legal value. Sometimes they go overboard with an AO, but they exist specifically to AVOID there being government regulation.
That isn't a problem to people who aren't retarded. I don't need the government to interfere with my primary hobby, thanks. Fuck off.
When did they say that?
Holy shit, an entire fucking country could make loot boxes illegal??? This might actually save the gaming market!
meloncholy&macabre But it'll instead kill it, because they're gonna fuck it up and ban loads of games without lootboxes too.
Jacob C. Mayer Why would you think that?
meloncholy&macabre NONONONONONONONONONONONONONO you do not want Maybot 2000 regulating anything.
Or games might not be released in the UK at all.
I don't think publishers, developers etc. would leave lootboxes out of their game to release them in one more country.
It would not even surprise me if they were to raise the cost of micro-transactions to make up for lost sales.
I think making them illegal might be too much but force a rated AO (Adults Only) for loot boxes because of gambling will make alot of companies think twice.
All I want is for achievements and challenges to unlock cool shit, like in Halo 3. Fuck random chance loot box shit.
I remember the good ‘old days when running someone over with a mongoose got you that sweet scout armor.
Don't forget about Dead Rising. Certain achievements unlock bonus costumes.
Or maybe make lootboxes but you can't buy them in any way shape or form using realize currency.
awww yeah i remember the elephant glitches. Couldn't you phase hornets or whatever they where called (the flying things) into them and make a flying mobile fortress? That was the shit back then.
Falleax I remember those days when ACTUALLY COMPLETELY QUESTs in rpgs got you better gear instead of fucking micro transactions and lootboxes.
I really hope this gains some traction because legislation has not caught up to the practices implemented by game developers. I'm just wondering where this whole loot box craze will eventually end up...
Hahaha! What?
In time you would acquire you game via lootbox transactions. You just keep buying lootboxes to get enough of the game to functionally catch up with your friends.
Gotakibono with our bootyholes packed to the brim with sick skins. And our wallets eating themselves everytime a new game is released.
It'll be a hard fight... Activision is making more profits in microtransactions than whole quarter of EA. Yes, it's more than 1.5 billion... The lobbying will be very powerful on them.
Jalex Ones where art thou Sam ma naulow?
Remember when you played a game and saw (or displayed yourself) someone with a certain weapon, skin or item and you knew hey they cleared that one area, quest or boss? Now its just oh they got lucky and got it from a box or they just paid for it. Miss the old days
It was nice to see Funhaus' Lawrence mention you and your videos about all these shitty practices
Moe Rahman in which video did he do that?
Link to that vid?
Moe Rahman I too would like to know which video
Yeah, I wanna know aswell.
Vantus Thanks anyways
(Rule Britania plays obnoxiously loudly)
Ian Addyman "zero plans to get rid of the greedy companies that plagues Britannia"
I might have a bone to pick with the Brits (yay modern history) but I find it highly positive. This is certainly a step forward a small one mind you but a step nonetheless.
All Hail Britannia!
Ian Addyman Britania rules the regulation of loot boxes-waves!
Sidewinder Why do you have a bone to pick with the Brits...?, by the way you word i’m guessing you don’t live there too...?
I think there isn't anything in the world that everyone will go against it or that everyone will support it.
But the amount of people defending loot boxes as a rightful thing with the excuse of "Free Market" is ridiculous.
Companies have to make money and I don't blame them.
Naughty Dog they made money before loot boxes every existed. The hell are you talking about? Explain yourself.
If this is what they need to do to make money, they should seriously alter their business models and priorities. I'm not going to give a dime more of my money to these bullshit microtransactions or the games that have them.
Well, Naughty Dog, there's a difference between making money and fucking the consumer in the ass. But keep defending your corporate daddy. I'm sure that will work out for you.
Naughty Dog Sure and everybody has to eat.
All my UK peeps say heyyyy
Micro transactions must die.
KhaosNG indeed
heyyyy!
Heyyyy
Heyyyy
KhaosNG i‘m not from the uk, but heyyy
This is great. Lootbox is a form of gambling, so the rules that govern gambling should apply.
i hope so it breaks all the great tripple AAA games i understand in a free to play not a fully made game i spent 60$ on
Housin Engi careful what you wish for
neuromod yeah exactly like gambling...except you always get something out of loot boxes, while with most gambling there's a very high chance of getting nothing...but exactly like gambling.
KnukkleJoeShow I thought about this but then I realized that most of the time you will spend money on lootboxes and get things you *DON'T WANT.* Like useless skins, or duplicate skins, or items that you already have too many of. So in essence, you stil have a very high chance of getting practically nothing... *just like gambling.*
I'm shenoku : yup
Make sense, loot boxes are a form of gambling and gambling is severely regulated in many countries.
I never thought about it but this may actually be the best way to fight lootboxes
Francesco but then just make more dlc anf increase the cost that way.
But that's different, i have no problem (in theory) with paying 10$ fir something if i really want that thing.
It's a different concept to spend 10$ so that i may get what i want if i'm lucky.
Some companies (EA) has terrible DLC policies but let's be fair, not all dlc are bad and they are still better than loot boxes that you have to buy with real money.
Francesco the reason they put dlc in the first place was to countre inflatation and keep retail price the same. But with micro transactionsts it's about making money. Overwatch I am happy we get dlc maps and game mod without paying extra. Granted I still don't like loot box.
Kyle Razo it won’t be DLC , honestly they’re just going to have to convert to selling individual in game items.
For how little amount of in game items people actually value in overwatch, this’ll surely be like near killing the game and demand more revenue in tournaments to substitute
Yeah let's have the government intervene in our hobby, this is the way to fascism you know
Though the gaming community seems more anti-capitalist and anti-big companies
Die loot boxes die!!!!!!!!!
ITS ALL THE DAMN GAY FROGS
How glad I am that this isn't in german.
"The Loot Boxes, The"
Very apt profile picture. Well done.
"cam-bridge" hahahaha Great video as always! This new kinda makes me proud to be for the uk!
This is awesome. Thank you for reporting on this. Gives me hope for the future.
Start a petition like that in America
a slippery sausage that isn't quite too slippery unfortunately it would have to be passed in many states for it to make an impact as all your states have a devolution of power allowing them to pass their own laws
Yeah right, all the game publishers have to do is slip the politicians a few benjamins and they won't touch loot boxes.
ESRB has already commented that loot boxes are not considered gambling. A petition in America would be a waste of time.
CaptToilet ESRB have no power.
The gambling commission is part of the government and its up to them what is considered gambling.
Yes, but then again, America has very, I mean VERY loose laws when it comes to gambling. I don't know much about American law, but for all I can say is that each state has different laws and works different, so although in one Gambling may be forbidden (although I'm not sure about that), the others are taking profit out of it (Nevada for example). And, although they're technically part of the same country, each state would have to get a petition on it's own.
We shall fight them on the forums, we shall fight them in the living rooms, and in the streets. We shall fight them in the comment sections, WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER!
The problem is, that won't work. The only effective way of fighting them is with our wallets, and unfortunately, people are still buying loot boxes.
But that's Iike too hard so yeah more lootboxes :^)
Fuck lootboxes
And fuck Activision >:(
Yes mate come to the UK I'd love to meet the legend!
Mr Menziah Yes! Then we'll see if the man can live up to the legend.
Tom Brearley-Smith I see what you did there!
Good video. Cambridge is pronounced “Camebridge”
Checked the comments, knew someone would have said it first.
Hey, at least it's an English word. Just think of all those foreign language names and of the many ways they are mispronounced.
This comment was gey and not necessary
I know Mr Perfect Cell, so why did you post it?
Paul Crowley well played...
I found that UK petition early on when it was at 346 signatures, after finding it i was spreading that shit everywhere
Have to admit, this whole lootbox thing sucks,but damn it gets more and more interesting everyday. I wanna see how this ends.
It won't.
Sorry, this ending is blocked behind a pay wall. To get access to all content etc, etc...
Happy to see you Yong Yea finding these stuff, researching and fighting these companies.
It is interesting that lootboxes doesn't count as gambling (So far)
Yet the "gambling" in fallout new vegas made PEGI label Fallout New Vegas with the gambling rating
The Infamous Cloaker Videos- I think its the difference between a Slot Machine and a Gumball machine. You are guaranteed to always get a Gumball from a Gumball machine even if its a flavor you don't want. But you could play the slots all night and not get a dime.
If there was a dedicated aftermarket for all lootbox items one could make a case for one group of items being valuable and another group being valueless. That would get you back to the slot machine analogy.
And that type of system they can regulate as i understand it.
+ViccVegaa023 So if the dealer at the poker table or the roulette table gives the losers a free sticker every time they lose, it magically isn't gambling anymore? Come on...
No, it's not the difference between a slot machine and a gumball machine. Fallout New Vegas in game "gambling" of betting in game currency for more in game currency is neither a slot machine or a gumball machine. You cannot spend real money on Fallout New Vegas gambling. You can spend real money on loot boxes.
Deathbrewer Your example doesn't happen in real life but mine does.
The lootbox stuff that you got but didn't want is of same intrinsic value as the stuff you wanted but didn't get. Its all pixels/gumballs.
Unless somebody can prove there's an aftermarket for those items alone. Which is the the US's stance on the matter. Except they used card games like Magic the gathering in their example.
Fantastic news. Thanks so much for staying on top of this issue. We sincerely appreciate it.
I will never buy a Activision game again.
Your life will improve no end with that decision.
Why you haven't listened to me telling you that around 2010?
Mofo Jojo BUT I LIKE BLIZZARDS GAMES
Destiny 3
Yay! Go UK, never thought I'd say that as an Irish citizen.
Fuck the IRA.
Scotland Boy
United Ireland is coming get ready to welcome your boys home Ireland and England doesn't want those Ulster Orange cunts.
Quirks and Features The IRA surrendered.
This is a good step in the right direction. Major gaming regions (North America and Europe) have a lot of say in what is or isn't acceptable. Pushing for regulations that may curb the virus that is micro-transactions means more in those regions than almost anywhere else. I hope something comes out of this.
When I buy a game, I want a full game .
I'm not asking for much.
Yongyea you have been on a badass tear. Joining your Patreon today.
Hit them where it hurts in their wallet. I refuse to buy any game that contains loot boxes. Hence why I've gone back to playing older games and adding more to my collection
Yong Yea is the best news source for this epidemic! Keep up the good work Man!
I've never been prouder of my country!......No seriously, this is like the only good thing i've seen my government do.
I love these channel's Yongyea, Downward Thrust, Pretty Good Gaming, and crowbcat.
I just want to see that only micro transactions be in ONLY F2P games, there is no reason for micro transactions, ESPECIALLY PAY TO WIN LOOTBOXES, be in a PAID game. Its like buying a fridge with no shelves on the inside or an oven without any racks or burners, they're purposely unfinished for the sole purpose of squeezing out as much money as they can.
Keep that shit in F2P games, its fair game THERE, its obnoxious to be forced to pay an additional 100 dollar on top of 60 to get the "complete package" (Looking at YOU, Destiny)
Actually, there is a reason for them to be in a paid game.
Consumers are stupid enough to keep buying them.
That's all the justification they need to keep shoving them into stuff more and more until it breaks.
Thank you for your well thought takes on the video game industries atrocious business practices, I really enjoy your videos keep up the good work.
I was thinking if it would be possible to make games that have in-game gambling loot boxes rated AO (Adults Only) making them unavailable to a vast portion of the gaming population. Of course you would have to make the AO rating 21+ instead of 18+ because that is the legal age of gambling (at least in the U.S.). This would force companies to stop these predatory practices because of the amount of money they would lose as well as drawing attention to the issue. Imagine if publisher HAD to put on the box that their game has gambling elements, I think a lot of parents would shy away from buying it for their kids.
I like this idea alot
Aaron N Not really. I’ve seen parents buying 10-12 year olds GTA V. They don’t give a shit.
Thankyou for spreading the word :) this is a much more serious issue than people realize
Disclosing the odds for loot boxes isn't enough imo, buying a loot box that way with in game money that's fine, I don't care, but if someone spends real money they should know what they're getting for that period.
Definitely agree with everything you said in this videos,I often share videos like yours discussing topics like the toxic loot boxes,most people I know are highly on the defence but some have also admitted if the publishers can’t regulate their own Microtransactions properly from the beginning than none of this would be happening.
As much as having your government do something about this abominations of loot boxes/microtransactions, I honestly don't know what to feel as governments are kind of shady themselves. And who knows, Im kind of scared of governments wanting a piece of the pie once they realize how much cash microtransactions somewhat bring
Perfect World, a game I used to play regularly, started introducing click-bait loot boxes into your inventory. You couldn't get rid of them or even sell them; they stayed there until you opened them (with a bit of cash). I stopped playing it and will never go back. That kinda put me off it for life. I hope this does gain some momentum.
Hopefully the UK can stop this...for queen and country lol
I’d love to hear what video game devs and exects have to say about this. I know an ex-Bungie dev was quoted giving the “but people have families, THINK OF THE CHILDREN” speech when asked what he thought about people’s negative feelings towards micro-transactions, and I kind of got a kick out of that.
Most everyone has a family to feed, buddy. Even before loot boxes were a thing.
Please CD Project Red, release some news regarding Cyberpunk. I need some more good gaming news.
Well.. this didn’t age too well lol
@@DattboiiSteve It sure has not.
Congrats on reaching 300k subs!
This is all because of mobile phone gaming. And the way this activision system sounds, who’s going to play? Why play against people that over power you and vice versa? Where is the fun in that. Mp games need to return to how the original halo was. Every one starts the same, every one has the same chance to get power weapons. That’s how it should be.
DarkSide Blues exactly why I never play mobile phone games. Hot trash, all of them
DarkSide Blues but money :'(
Get The super shotgun it's time :D
Ciel PhantomHive I think you should have to buy ammo with real money at real world prices. You know, for realism. ;)
DarkSide Blues yeah but charge double the regular price of bullets :D
Ciel PhantomHive oh yeah and 25 cents per respawn. 1.99 to respawn with double hp. Better yet, have kill packs. 5.99 to have 25 extra kills added to actual score. Or go premium, 59.99 to get 500 kills added to your actual score.
UK citizen here. The gambling commission will only have skin in this if the content of the loot boxes can be traded back for real money. To my knowledge this is rarely something the game actively allows. Currently loot boxes work more like buying a mystery toy. Something that's pretty big in kiddy sections of shops in the UK (a sealed bag containing one of a variety of toys, you have to buy loads to get the full set of toys) Loot boxes can contain a variety of things but so long as the game publisher can give a bullshitty reason why the worst thing the box can contain is worth at-least the value of the box then again it's not going to be something the gambling commission will be able to regulate.
Gaming has changed.... It's no longer about making great games with great stories and having fun no, it's about microtranscations and loot boxes, Full prices games are now Pay to Win, Gaming has changed....
We need to remember... to spread the word... to fight for change
AAA's LUL
TBH what have you expected from them? LOL
great work, your videos are very informative and I appreciate the fact your not afraid to go after those corporate scumbags
Please link your sources!
As someone in the UK this sounds very welcome.
Good now let’s send this to capital hill now
With Trump in power, I don't think it would happen soon
I thought it was Capitol Hill? Then again I'm British, we spell all of our words strangely.
Devs are really smart and sneaky about this look at the situation they have in China for loot boxes and devs got around it if this gets regulated they need to destroy all loop holes
Good, I'm glad this kind of thing is starting to reach the ears of at least one government. It is gambling, and should be treated as such. And if governments start passing laws requiring it to be regulated as such it will no longer be as profitable to these companies to do this. If even one region, like the PAL region, has governments start passing such laws such as this it will still cause a lot of trouble for its worth to game publisher. As that would require them to pour more money into the games to change them for just those regions.
Of course, I'm not naive. Such a thing happening is a ways off, and it's not guaranteed. But at least we're seeing movement in the area now. Because it IS gambling, and in a lot of cases it IS targeted at children too. Heh, even if it were just something as minor as requiring the games be rated something like AO (Adults Only in the ESRB rating system, and it is rarely used) would be a huge dent in these companies' profits.
I like the direction this channel is turning to...
great work Yong, keep covering this shitty practices
hey man i love your stuff, i could sit and listen to you all day, in fact i just did. thanks! keep it up!
I hate lootboxes, but getting the government to regulate videogames is a horrible idea. The best thing to do is inform consumers and get them to spend their money elsewhere.
I think it's fine in some sense. I don't believe this is regulating video games per say, but instead apply already existing laws of gambling toward video games.
I mean, protecting minors from what is essentially gambling is quite literally what the government is meant to be doing.
Consumers are part of the reason why this is a problem.
VincentLawSan because that's worked before?
You are talking about those brainless kids who buy for buy? Yes we need to stop then by force because they dont know how do that
Awesome video YongYea, as usual. Btw I this has nothing to do with the video but still congratulations on reaching over 300k subs.
One word..... Brexit
Gaming HD Breakfast
It's great when people say Brexit like everyone is ashamed of it and that it's terrible. Last thing I remember americans treasured independence
Laurence Barnes the minority who loathe Brexit are the loudest
Gaming HD Brexit will be a good idea, we'll give £350 million to the NHS and we can reclaim our sovereignty! We hate all these things in the European Union like the opportunity to have a stable economy and literally everything we introduced into the EU we hate! Let's leave and be happ... oh. Inflation is rising considerably. Pound is going down the shitter. Negotiations are going fucking nowhere. We're about to lose our human rights. Boris Johnson is foreign secretary and the PM bought power. Brexit is one of the worst mistakes we have ever made and there are very few people who actually realise this.
Alex Haines we get away from a union that is trying to force refugee's down the throats of Eastern European countries, it's a fucking amazing idea.
I bet you would love to see the EU see over every little thing you do and have you arrested for simply going against them. They're a dictatorial organisation that are breaking further apart every day. Poland and the UK leaving could topple the whole rotten structure, which is in every true Europeans best interest
this the first time i see yong so calm.
The only thing worse than shitty microtransactions in video games is government regulation of video games
InnocuousRemark How? all they would be doing is making gambling illegal.
jet100a But they probably will use this for in-game gambling too, wjich involves no real money. That's why Pokemon no longer has the casinos.
Dagda x That's a little bit "Slippery slope" but I mean sure, you could be right. Although are you sure it'd be any worse than the way video games are going now?
Yeah don't ever ask the government to regulate anything. You're just asking for bullshit later on. The only solution to microtransactions and loot boxes is not to buy them. There is the indie game market still and they have many great games.
Well it went that deep into shit that you cant play games without buying stuff.. So ppl ask help from government...
It like you go to restaurant order food and they tell you that you have to buy table and seats in order to have dinner there...
Everything about video game microtransations might make an interesting documentary.
Loot boxes aren’t that bad when they’re cosmetics only. BUT MOST OF THE TIME...
Roger Roger Yes, true. What ever happened to earning stuff from the actual game instead of virtual slot machines?
cosmetics should be given in-game
What? I never said cosmetics were good. I said “Not that bad”. That doesn’t mean I still hate them. Also I don’t like company schemes, thank you very much.
It would be even better if the ESRB and other game rating firms had labels on games whether they included paid gambling services or not like what they put on cigarette packs in Canada and such.
Man, this is such a first world problem - " *Oh, look, we have expendable income to spend on frivolous vanity items and boosters! Oh, won't the state do something to stop us from filling our purpose-shaped soul holes with inane purchases?* "
more like, won't the state do something to stop companies from cutting out content that used to be free and charging for it.
Pedro, that "free" content was severely lacking, as in missing. Dunno what rose-tinted glasses you're wearing but there was almost no customization possible in the old games, no alternate skins for the playable character, no skins or shaders for the weapons and so on. Look at CS 1.6 , Assassin's creed 1, Mass Effect 1, Left4Dead, Batman Arkham Asylum and so on.
The old games you hold in such high regards, were quite limited in the customization department. Mostly because the producers/devs had little incentive to allocate more resources for extra skins and vanity items.
+asher taz Look at Ratchet & Clank 3. There were like 15 different skins all collectable in game. Look at San Andreas' Mod Shops. Look at the hat stand in the street fighter movie with each hat based around an alternate pallet for M. Bison, that's a lot of hats. Look at any of the Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater Games.
There were absolutely loads of customization options back in the day in loads of great games, just there's more now thanks to the financial incentive to bleed people's wallets out over the internet.
Also actually look at Mass Effect 1, There was a shit ton of different looking and different playing equipment in that game.
It's practically gambling for children and other people gullible enough to by this crap. It is funny tho, *UK bans xp boosters and cosmetic items in gaming*
Another thing that has to be keep in mind is that real life gambling give you the opportunity to win something of value, while lootboxes give you only digital items that most of the time can't be traded with other player or be sold in any manner.
Also, those digital items does no belong to the player at all, but you get only the license to use them in the game, like you do not really hown gamse but just have the license to use them. So, basically a loot box is a gambling that cost real life money and don't reward you with anithing of some sort of value!
Great. Internet censorship by the government, but at least you won't have lootboxes!
EDIT: Looks like everyone here misunderstood me. The UK is well known for censoring the internet in other ways not related to lootboxes which make that a far bigger problem.
its more of him talking about how the police will go after you if you commit an online "hate crime". Also you could be put in jail for viewing far right websites like 4chan.
airloaf none of that has anything to do with this tho lmfao are you fuckin 65? Does every single thing involving technology have a direct relation in your eyes? Dude
I didn't say it has anything to do with lootboxes. Also I couldn't comprehend what you were saying in the last part of your reply or how it makes me an old man.
Ozz Lee civil war please, democracy has failed
Edited my comment.
dude as soon as you mentioned a petition was going on i signed up. proud to be british for the first time in a while
The UK should be busy fighting Islam. Cheers!
Jay LuMarr We've been fighting Islam for 100s of years. Longer than USA even existed. You fight them and stop asking for our help.
Don't even know if you're American, just wanted to point out that we have been fighting them for a very long time.
Awoken Genius I’m Puerto Rican and I said it as a joke. Politics has nothing to do with this video haha. But all jokes aside I hope we can all figure things out.
Jay LuMarr it's everywhere now isn't it. Politics drives me insane.
Islam isn't trying to take my money...
this needs to be done everywhere not just the UK.
I'm quite against this, honestly. Self regulation, not government regulation.
steve bussemi Yeah, because that worked great with the banks.
companies aren't gonna regulate themselves if it means they'll make less money. If something is gonna get done on a large scale, then governments will need to be involved
If people want to pay for lootboxes enough that companies make money off it, then so be it, in my opinion. Those who don't want to, myself included, don't have to.
Trouble with that thinking is you end up with games like Starwars Battlefront 2 where they are forcing lootboxes down your throat, yes you don't need to buy them but good fucking luck leveling up or being on par with someone who wants to buy stuff in that game.
End of the day someone needs to step in and do something at this point, end of story.
+steve bussemi Hmm. I see where you're coming from; if someone does something that only harms themselves, it's not necessarily a problem (legally). The issue is that companies specifically target 'whales' (impulsive sorts; typically children or those with addictive personalities) and exploit them for all they're worth; thus, it's a company harming people, hence the cry for regulation. It's a little more complicated as a whole, but that's the gist of it.
Personally, I doubt this will go anywhere legally, but the publisization of the issue will at least make more people aware of what's happening, allowing more people to pressure self-regulatory bodies, which I reckon is great.
Thanks for this update!
Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak because a baby can't also chew on a steak.
There are maybe millions of microtransaction-less games people with "addictive personalities" can play instead.
Just as a government body should not have the right to decide what is suitable for different ages to view/play, i don't care for them expanding the definition of gambling.
Especially not for moralistic reasons like "think of the children". Please stop treating children like retards and they probably will learn some valuable lessons that will make them _Informed consumers_ .
Can your 5 year old go into a Casino and bet with your credit card on whatever he likes?
Can he buy Firearms or Alcohol, or drive a Car?
None of it is censored, just regulated. If you have a problem with THAT, you are fucking irresponsible.
RyoMassaki But if they do this, they'll almost certainly then go after in-game gambling that DOESN'T cost real-world money. Like the casinos that were in Pokemon until they had to be taken out FOR THIS EXACT READON.
No, my Hypothetical 5 year old can't do any of those things,but not because of state regulation, but because of parent regulation. Just like it won't have access to my credit cards.
Also, you're not talking about regulations of those things here, you're talking about ending them. Or you'd want be to believe that you're for loot boxes as long as you know the chances of getting a legendary or something?
asher taz well said man 100% agree but your going to get alot of haters brace yourself
No i would make games with gambling elements for Adults only (18+). That would hurt their financial interest so much that they most likely think twice about it.
Think about Forza for example. That game has no age restriction because its a racing game. With an AO rating they would loose a lot of potential customers. I'd rather pay 70$ for a good game when that means i don't have to deal with this random number generator bullshit.
Javob C. Meyer.
There is a difference between gambling for free (inside a game) and gambling with real money. Only the latter releases high amounts of Dopamine which makes the whole thing addictive. There is no reason to forbid gambling if there is no risk to loose something real. It doesn't have the same effect on the human psyche.
I’m in the UK so I’m pleased we're trying to do something about it 👍🏻
I can't speak for the UK, but here in the US the very last thing I want is the government getting more directly involved with games. I beg for some self regulation in some way.
If we dont buy games that support this practice then the industry will discover that the loot boxes are no longer profitable. I have no trust in government anywhere on this planet in regulating anything.
Self regulation will never happen. They will create those "ESRB"-esque organization for the appearance, but nothing will change.
Tim Gunnar Yes But it’s literally the government’s job to enforce laws, especially ones that protect minors from gambling. This is quite literally what is happening. They’re protecting minors from gambling by eliminating skeevy dealings.
There will always be a market for micro-transactions, and a market for games with no micro-transactions. Fears that microtransactions will infect every game, like a pandemic, are overblown and unfounded.
There are hundreds of games with microtransactions that failed completely and utterly. Devs and producers see that already.
asher taz Nope....jesus christ you guys act like regulation is the worst thing possible but history has shown otherwise. (especially regulation of monopolies and such)
If anyone is wondering where it started. It was in a discord for a CZcams channel called pretty good gaming.
Good! Let’s keep up the movement!
If they label lootboxes as gambling, wouldn't that actually require them to mark the game as AO if it involved real money? You can't legally gamble (AFAIK at least) until you're 18 in the US.
Nice new hardware man, great clear image.
This is the first time I think when gamers themselves act to put law restrictions on games. Usually they have to defend against unnecessary law restrictions.
""can be traded or exchange outside the game platform" - so only CS, DotA (maybe, unless Valve presents Steam as part of the platform, since it's required to run the game proper) and a few other titles are affected. Aside from that, as long as the items stay in game [Overwatch, Destiny, Forza], they will not act.
Yongyea you should put a link in the description for the petition for your UK viewers if they can get 100,000 they will be able to have a face to face at parliament and will able to give full detail to them.
Did you just get 3000 subs in a day?? I'm proud to say I've been here since 30k :) great channel
The way you say Cambridge is hilarious
You know... you're right. This'll definitely change things for the better. And I'm sure Monseigneur Jim Sterling might be interested...
If you want to see the extended version of this video.... The dlc is only $1.99 in the item store.
Activision, EA, Blizzard,etc. Are probably having a meltdown right now.
Seeing how this could take a while to actually get answered, we'll have to wait and see what comes out of it, if anything at all.
This is great .. it's a shame I don't live in that part of the UK my name would be on that signature list to take action... If your in Britain I'd be good to support this
I love that idea of Loot Boxes showing the odds of getting rare items =)
As a Brit let me translate all that for you. ‘We are doing and intend to do nothing.’
Im happy but also still tense hearing this, happy at least it's being talked about and gaining traction tense.....because it's still asking the gov to step in. Living in the US I don't think I need to explain more
We are getting onto this unregulated gambling in Australia too ... slowly but hopefully effectively.
Yeah that's right come on . Thanks for this YomgYea
Loot boxes, when you think about it, can be extremely fun in games. If acquired through gameplay only and with enough variety in prizes it can drastically change how everyone plays from each other.
The way they’re implemented nowadays, though, is extremely disgusting.
YongYea is known among my friends as the “microtransactions guy”
Eyyy happy 300,000 subs
Congrats on 300k!!
"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming"
It's actually pronounced 'came-bridge'. Easy to remember because it's MP just made us all happy-jism