Sentences with phrase «over loot boxes»

Star Wars Battlefront II by Electronic Arts faced a lot of controversy over its loot boxes.

The recent statements from gambling regulators and legislators worldwide constitute an opening shot in the battle over loot boxes, not a climax.

Battlefront wasn't the first - or the last shooter to use microtransactions, obviously, so why hasn't anyone kicked up a stink over the loot boxes in Overwatch?

This news comes after a year full of controversy over loot boxes, which many players see as manipulative, predatory methods to get them to spend more money on games.

You guy's need to get over this loot box crap, I doubt you even play most of these games in the first place.

Even with all the backlash over its loot box system, WWII was always going to sell well.

EA's «Star Wars Battlefront II» hasn't even been released yet, but it has already garnered a lot of negative criticism over its loot box system.

Not exact matches

The rise of loot boxes in the second half of the year threatened to overshadow everything, until the outcry over Star Wars: Battlefront II caused EA to think again.

But it's not just that the loot boxes feature non-cosmetic upgrades, that give you a clear advantage over other players, it's the fact that the whole progression system is based around their use.

Loot boxes are gaming's big issue of the year, with titles like Star Wars: Battlefront 2 receiving seemingly endless criticism over a solid game tarnished by imbalance and a big push to in - game spending.

It's an improvement over the ability granting loot boxes from early access but pricey skins add an unwelcome new grind to a game.

Instead of opting for a loot box system like in Overwatch, where players spend real money to unlock virtual cosmetic items, EA's plans were to allow players to purchase weapons and upgrades that would give players a huge advantage over their competition.

Whether it be avoiding the implementation of loot boxes, or omitting a highly requested feature that would otherwise imbalance an experience, developers whose decisions align with their vision of a game, over the fastest route to sales, give us hope that there is still some creativity in this creative industry.

For Bungie went for the superficial: 4K / 60 frames per second Tessellation Anti-aliasing No mod support No LAN support No map editor For gamers to defend loot boxes and microtransanctions or asking to raise game prices shows that gamers have given up and are willing to bend over and take it up their ass.

Now the commission is recommending criminal prosecution against Activision Blizzard, EA, and Valve over their illegal loot boxes.

Loot boxes should be earned through skill and progression over time in game.

A number of gambling regulators have also voiced their opinion and concerns over the nature of loot boxes since the November 17 release of the new Star Wars video game.

We kicked around some thoughts of our own about loot boxes in the wake of uproars over their presence in Middle - earth: Shadow of War and Star Wars Battlefront 2.

The debate over whether loot boxes should be thought of as gambling tools is not going to go away, with the UK Gambling Commission ruling that boxes do not come under its control because the rewards on offer were usable only in the game.

The debate over whether loot boxes should be thought of as gambling tools is not going to go away, with the UK

News outlets reported on Wednesday that the issue has actually spread across the globe and that the US state of Hawaii has also joined the debate over the gambling nature of loot boxes.

Leveling up and earning loot boxes will be enabled for the testing players, and all progress will carry over if they decide to purchase the game afterwards.

«He drove a hard bargain, but at the end of the day we really had no choice but to agree with what he was saying and just hand over those 50 loot boxes at what is frankly a very competitive price.»

If you haven't, concerns over the pricing structure and that hero content will be earned via loot boxes rather than unlocked with the games once purchased has caused outrage among gamers.

Following a petition for the government to address the legality of in - game loot boxes reaching over 10,000 signatures, the DCMS replies

According to Blizzard, there are over 50 new seasonal items that can be acquired through the Winter Wonderland 2017 loot boxes.

In later sections of the campaign, purchasing loot boxes can yield new Uruks, equipment, and boosts for your allies; which will help get over some difficult siege missions that feel somewhat unfair.

We can expect those same loot box rewards systems in Anthem, with the ability to spend real world money in order to boost your progression and give you an advantage within the game, over the environment and other players.

That's not possible with loot boxes, which rely on players pulling the slot machine over and over.

In today's age of microtransactions and loot boxes plaguing games and harassing gamers all over the digital shop, we're yet to witness a Nintendo - developed game appear on their hardware that encourages players to part so readily with their cash to the detriment of the game's balance.

The game — Star Wars Battlefront II, immediately found itself at the center of a bitter controversy over the arbitrary contents of its loot boxes.

It was actually an Electronic Arts game that stirred the ongoing debate over the nature of loot boxes and whether these constituted a form of gambling.

Sadly, the minor annoying aspects like tired cliches that just keep coming, the grinding to get more currency making you race the same races over and over again, the loot boxes that are hidden away but still part of the game all make it an easy decision to wait for a sale or wait for it to show up on Origin Access vault (or EA Access on Xbox).

The recently imposed fines seem to have once again ignited the debate over the nature of loot boxes.

The debate over whether loot boxes should be considered gambling, feels like it has reached breaking point.

While we can easily share the concern on the potential classification of a «gaming disorder» by the World Health Organization or the possible bans faced by Augmented Reality games and apps, we can not say the same over the attempts at regulating loot boxes made, for example, by Hawaii State representatives Chris Lee and Sean Quinlan.

It's an improvement over the ability granting loot boxes from early access but pricey skins add an unwelcome new grind to a game.

Before we even wade into the whole loot box issue being repaired, we need to go over the pricing.

Some users crunched the numbers and calculated the odds on these from only a couple of months ago which is a part of what fuels the gambling industry — rarity equals value, which in place of an actual monetary value is what allows these sites, and more modern loot box infested games, to skirt around gambling laws the world over.

Given that credits are available in loot boxes, it seems to fans like the developers of Battlefront II have made all of the characters expensive in order to convince players to fork over more cash.

In 2017, thanks to Battlefront II and a few others, loot boxes became the latest skirmish in a larger fight over how to make money selling games.

It brought chance into a game of skill, and while you can be patient and earn loot boxes through in - game credits, it's much faster to hand over money and buy them.

For a limited time, you can gain experience with new leaderboards, a competitive arena, an exciting ranking system, and of course, over 150 new cosmetic options that will come as part of the loot box system.

Everyone knows video games have to make money somehow, but the question over how games make money became one of the central arguments in 2017, as various big name publishers brought one of the most popular ways to monetize mobile and free - to - play games — loot boxes — into the mainstream.

With something of an outcry over randomised loot boxes and card packs, is now a perfect time for a digital living card game (LCG)?

Another requirement would be that the technical assessment team gets complete control over the random number generators used in those loot boxes.

And it's a discussion far from over, with the the problem of loot boxes effect on minors reaching the world outside of gaming.

Over the past few months, the debate about loot boxes has grown louder as players call for the mechanic to be classed as gambling.

Last year was a troublesome year, as the publisher faced criticism over the predatory loot boxes found in Star Wars Battlefront 2, Need for Speed - Payback saturated with microtransactions, the closure of Visceral Games, and Mass Effect Andromeda's buggy release.

Chances are over the course of that month a loot box is going to contain at least one other character.