Cost of doing business, doesn’t even cover all minors, and has a checkbox caveat.
Ban the entire business model.
For what it’s worth, the “loot boxes” are quite fair because of the pity system:
- Every 10 pulls you’ll get one if the featured 4* characters
- Within 90 pulls you’re guaranteed to get a 5* (though you’ll almost certainly get it between 74-80 pulls)
- When you get a 5*, there’s a 50% chance of getting the featured character
- If you lose the 50/50, the next 5* will be the featured character.
- The pity system persists through each banner.
Each patch, free players will have enough resources to guarantee one of the featured characters and their signature weapon (provided they do their daily tasks and clear the content).
I’ve been playing Star Rail since launch, never purchased any premium currency. It’s certainly the fairest form of gacha I’ve seen.
It kinda sucks that Hoyo is being targeted, when the system is so transparent and forgiving. There are MUCH more predatory systems out there.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
Making it gambling is a thousand times worse. That fundamental abuse can’t be fixed by tweaking numbers.
In theory I agree, but live service games need to be sustainable somehow. Subscriptions are one method, but create a barrier to entry past the trial phase.
I don’t think about the Hoyo model as gambling (it is), as the vast majority of successful pulls happen between 74-80 pulls.
In any case, I don’t disagree with you, but simply pointing out the obscurity claimed in the article is false, the system is transparent and fair, compared to other games which are far more deserving of being regulated.
Such copium.
How? I’m F2P lol
Not if you participate in any of the bullshit you just described so tenderly.
You say tenderly, I say transparent.
I enjoy the game, the fact that I can’t get every unit for free doesn’t bother me. There’s no copium here dingbat.
Known violent psycho and sociopath SSSniperWolf is also specifically cited as recieving over $100,000 for two short videos which directly promoted the game’s obscured lootbox mechanics to her audience of millions of children
“Gamers, in rage, rushes to CS:GO as a protest.”
Counterstrike 2* noob. You can’t really stop the casinos :| well you can, buuut… well etc etc something or other clever. N*s can bet on fricking anything anyway, might as well regulate it. Wild our global society didn’t learn from American alcohol prohibition kek
I have to admit that if the loot box issue in Genshin is the same as CSGO then this might just be a case of dumbass kids. I’ve never bought anything in CSGO and I have hundreds of hours in the game. You rarely get a good long close up look at gun skins in game which is all there really is to get from the boxes, so who fucking cares; and if there are attention calling GUI elements for the loot boxes then they aren’t very significant because I don’t recall them and my eyes apparently just gloss right over. So I really can’t understand someone throwing a bunch of money at that without like the involvement of scammer YouTubers spreading lies to make money for their own hanging) gambling sites.
Cannot silence those Norwegian freedom of speech!
