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Micro-transactions uh oh!!!
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""After the communal and political backlash EA received over Battlefront II, the industry at large is going to have to walk back its loot box plans a little," Jim Sterling wrote in an email."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/28/eas-day-of-reckoning-is-here-after-star-wars-game-uproar.html
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/22/state-legislators-call-eas-game-a-star-wars-themed-online-casino-preying-on-kids-vow-action.html
OUCH!
How will this affect our little game???!!!
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Reading on you find that politicians are already talking about having the sales restricted by age and/or getting rid of micro-transactions altogether!!! haahahahaha!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/28/eas-day-of-reckoning-is-here-after-star-wars-game-uproar.html
and
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/22/state-legislators-call-eas-game-a-star-wars-themed-online-casino-preying-on-kids-vow-action.html
OUCH!
How will this affect our little game???!!!
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Reading on you find that politicians are already talking about having the sales restricted by age and/or getting rid of micro-transactions altogether!!! haahahahaha!
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Knowledge, freedom, uncertainty and the brutal truths of reality (red pill)
Security, happiness, beauty, and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)"
Insight to Agree to Awesome Ratio = 1:6.04:2.76 as of 1/25/2019
Compared to people that I've ignored = I am 18% more insightful, 20% less agreeable, and 88% more awesome.
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✭I have to say I personally very much dislike micro-transactions and turning computer games into casinos. It provides the wrong kinds of incentives - gamemakers can make the game more obtuse and lock away content in order for people to pay for what is otherwise often basic functions.
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✭Nothing would make me happier than to see this despicable, greedy, and unnecessary money making practice destroyed but I'm not holding my breath just yet.5 -
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