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MMO players blast "disgusting" $90 early access charge for WoW: The War Within - "We must say early and loudly that this is not okay" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to also legislate in game transactions so you can't get scammed in RuneScape anymore

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Runescape's real-money transactions should absolutely be illegal.

The fact they had to limit people to spending thousands of dollars per week - for fucking Runescape - is a giant flashing red light. In no universe is any public MMO worth ten thousand dollars per year. But that's the kind of spending all games with real-money charges actively pursue.

If we allow this to continue there will be nothing else.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think we need laws to stop a few oil barons from risking it all in the wildy, you're proposing such stupid overregulation lol. these are literally non issues

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

A few--?!

This is becoming EVERY GAME. Silent Hill has a battle pass! Silent Hill does not have battles! All of that shit is just lootboxes plus excuses. People finally recognize lootboxes are abusive nonsense. But all that's changed is how they're presented, so people can go, well, that was bad, but this is completely different slightly!

And all it takes to stop that from infecting the entire industry, is - stop charging real money, inside video games. A thing that was barely conceivable, fifteen years ago, when the industry was neither small nor broke. This grift takes in billions of dollars per year. Largely from children. And if you care as little about kids as I do - it's also fucking up the entire medium of video games. Again: this is becoming every game. Nothing modern is safe. You can't even reliably stay away, because it gets shoved into games, after people bought them.

If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else. Only legislation will fix this.