Ah Polygon, thanks for reminding me you're corporate shills.
fuck off
If lootboxes and microtransactions are so integral to contributing to licensing fees to have actual players and teams why not go back to the days of made up players and teams? If people like the actual game rather than the draw of controlling and collecting real players they will still buy it. Right?
>Legislation to ban "loot boxes" and pay-to-win microtransactions sounds like a righteous blow in the name of consumers, but it will punish sports video games for outrage others caused.
As though sports videogames aren't responsible for some of the most egregious examples of this shit.
What does that say about sports games?
Sports games are responsible for it in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLFNlu2N_M
Clearly that they are the purest form of online casinos
Sport games existed way before lootboxes. The fuck are they talking about?
No more sports games or loot boxes?
That's killing two birds with one stone right there. How could it ever be a bad thing?
Next article they will say how tax evasion by these companies are totally justified because "think of the corporations!"
Legislation to ban "loot boxes" and pay-to-win microtransactions sounds like a righteous blow in the name of consumers, but it will punish sports video games for outrage others caused.
wtf sports games have had some of the most predatory microtransactions out of any games.
polygon proving again that they are irredeemable hacks.
Sports game micro-transactions are a cancer. When I was in college, a knew a fair few people who would trawl for password dumps or phish for credit credit card details specifically so they could buy microsoft points, gift them to themselves and buy FIFA card packs.
There's two big things about this article that don't make any sense to me:
the logic of Battlefront 2 having been the straw that broke the camel's back meaning that only that game ought to be affected by this legislature. That game just crossed a "if it starts to get that bad we really need to look at the whole thing" line, it's not like people didn't have big problems with similar loot box models previously.
it doesn't even seem to be making a particular case for why sports games ought to be whitelisted. The author writes:
"That oily MTX money — hard as it is to defend, even in the abstract — helps those women and men deliver something that meets the unrelenting it’s-in-the-game standard we’ve taken for granted for a couple of decades"
Which surely could be applied to literally any game, including the Battlefront 2 the author seems to be eager to use as a scapegoat so sports games get to live on. It also doesn't address any of the concerns the legislature is trying to address. Sure, bigger budget lets you build bigger/better games, but that doesn't mean the budget has to be acquired by any means necessary.
I dunno, kinda just sounds like someone being upset that when they ritually buy the latest edition of their sports game darling next year, it won't be quite as big of a jump forward as it could have been, because of an issue that hasn't affected the author personally/doesn't care about. And then they came up with all sorts of reasons to rationalize why their franchise darling ought to not be affected by this.
We live in a world where people have gone so Stockholm syndrome for lootboxes that they cannot imagine a world where you can play a sports game without having to pay real life money to get a chance to obtain a virtual representation of a top athlete.
I dream of an E3 where i dont have to sit and listen to some guy talk about their amazing new ball physics for 20 minutes straight with a celebrity sports guest, and then bring a car out on stage.
If sports games must die to kill lootboxes then this is one hell of an easy sacrifice to make.
Yeah. The articles author admits in his profile that he loves sports games. He is clearly not objective about this at all. There's no way you could be, if you actually enjoy this shit. Other outlets have made it clear that the games' P2W aspects are worse than ever and, to quote Luke Plunkett, a predatory experience. This Owen dude is probably addicted to micros and doesn't even realize that his viewpoint is being driven by a chemical addiction every bit as powerful as addiction to vegas style gambling.
(Or he's just paid off.)
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/131/a7284d35-f9b8-4a89-a893-ec2eb71c2eab/image.png
My heart weeps
This won't kill sports games, just the pubilsher and possibly the developers's motivation to push them hard. Not a great loss though I'm sure they'll still make them seeing as there's always someone out there willing to splash out another £40 on Fifa20 while their shelved copies of Fifa 19, 18 etc devalue to pennies. I'm not even joking, way back when Gamestation/OG Game were around you'd see the last years' second hand copies of Fifa selling for £2.99 at a stretch.
I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt, seeing as publishers such as EA are notorious for paying off journalists/news outlets.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
https://memegenerator.net/img/images/72421056/then-perish.jpg
Now I'm not one of those people here jumping up and down like an overexcited kid on caffine to get lootboxes banned …
… But Polygon really are the last persons who should be going to bat and telling us that banning them is wrong. But I suppose they're running out of bribe money, after all these gaming news/review sites are like a fucking dinosaur now
I find it kinda weird how we got games like Battlefield V adopting a live service model using sports terminology like seasons and whatnot but sports games still use that bullshit where they release an updated roster and some marketing guff about "redefined ball play" every year for 60 bucks while refactoring more and more features into microtransactions and not carrying over any ultimate team stuff.
Games absolutely do not require a business model like this, if you ever stack the bullshit so high that they do, then maybe they should just die.
https://youtu.be/z7Xu-3_42fQ
Sports games are just reskins anyway
Im not that big into sports games, at least not football, but last time I played those it was one where you could manage a team and play the games, no micro transactions whatsoever.
Sports games being infested with microtransactions to their core is just terrible, worse that people actually buy those yearly rehashes in the first place.
If this bill means they need to basically scrap the whole game Im fine with that.
So you're saying that this legislation could affect games with loot boxes?
I've been wondering why they haven't switched to a subscription based model where you buy a season and then buy each player individually. I guess releasing a whole new game is still the more lucrative option.
Worse - it could effect Polygon's bottom line! Like I'm surprised that more people here arn't calling out Polygon (and other 'games journalism' sites) for being the PR arm for publishers.
Well they already have don't they? Yearly subscription model of buying the same game again plus re-buying all the cards/boxes and whatnot.
Probably worth more money then a sub service.
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