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Daily mission in Call of Duty: WWII--Watch people open loot crates.
- Thread starter Maximo
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If it's free like how watching ppl open up boxes is free then I say yea go nuts.
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Don't worry about it you just have to watch everyone else use them for a whole year.....
The only reason this exists is to entice people with latent gambling tendencies and children to spend money on loot crates of their own. The entire reason people watch others opening crates on Twitch is because of the inherent thrill of the gamble.
You thought publishers would stop at simply making buttloads of cash? Lmao
In the games industry EVERY slope is slippery
Right. The fact people do not seem to realize WHY loot box openings are popular is pretty amazing.
If children want to spend their money on loot boxes I say let them. If it's their parents money I say the parents deserve to get fleeced for their cash if they allow the kid to have their card info without doing some investigation.
What if watching others open lootboxes satisfies these latent gamblers like those videos do and they keep their money instead of buying boxes of their own.
It's psychology at play. People watch this shit on youtube, why not in the game itself? You get an actual benefit from it in game as well, the more people that watch you the better your odds at getting good stuff. It's devious. Gambling has been doing it since day one. My actual real concerns here are the age of the people this psychology is going to impact, the minors who are just given this Mature rated game with no followup or investigation by their parents. This could create a generation of addicts, then again you could say smart phone games are way ahead of things on this front, and those games are all ages AND free.
That's the real frustrating thing: No one ever learns. I remember people laughing off horse armor with "it's no big deal it's just armor" and "they're not making you buy it". These excuses get used for literally everything the game industry does, and it just keeps getting worse every time because half of us will defend it with their shortsightedness. 6 months from now some new game will try something that's worse than COD or Forza or the 2K games and we'll hear the same defenses yet again, because those people will have already forgotten they said it 6 months earlier with these current games.
This is ridiculous ... but I gotta say that their lootbox animations are pretty good. I just watched that GIF loop at least three times and I'm not even getting in-game rewards for my trouble.
It doesn't man. I'm trying to find a study I read about this but all it does is make people want to gamble more and more, even if they don't consciously think about it. That logic (i'll just watch, not play) is out of step with how your brain works when you see someone win big.
RE: the kids- what happens then when they become addicted to gambling at like 10, before their squishy brains even get a chance to form some kind of resistance to it?
A lot of this gambling psychology stuff is pretty well researched and pretty horrific if you read into it.
See I don't see why this upsets people.
So it's just the social world hub. That...isn't such a bad thing then. I mean loot boxes are stupid, but if its only cosmetics then that's perfectly okay as it isn't hurting anyone.
limited what now? All of the events repeat, people can just wait. And if they do, it's pretty easy to get the ones from the previous year since they are pretty cheap with the in-game currency.
Gaming to gambling, used to be games with a stroke of chance. Now it's chance with a stroke of gaming.
They say the most valuable commodity is your attention. Spend it wisely!
They say the most valuable commodity is your attention. Spend it wisely!
This is so ridiculous that I honestly can't even be mad. This is just funny because of how forward it is. R.I.P. Timmy's mom's wallet.
My apologies. Man they seem to all blend in together now...Especially on the Lootbox thingy.
Nothing feels better than getting rewarded for watching somebody opening their loot crate on Normandy beach...
Good for you, meanwhile i only got the rare Zenyatta skin
The "Skins only available for three weeks!" system in OW is horseshit
At one point, the Overwatch lootbox system WAS predatory for the time.
Blizzard has since then improved it. Of course given modern trends, even the original system would be pretty tame these days.
How to oversimplify things 101.
This is just like saying "low taxes, no regulation!" repeating such things ad hominem if they really mean anything beyond surface interpretations of massive economic engines.
that one isn't even that good tbh, Halo 5 is still one of the best ones i have seen, so easy to get even the higher quality ones. Only have paid once and it was part donation.
It's annoying, yeah, but I'd rather not look this gifthorse in the mouth.
edit: to be fair, I understand that the limited edition skins suck. There are skins I want but weren't able to get. And I understand that the reasoning behind this is to drive sales. However, I still stand by my opinion that their system is unobtrusive and hasn't negatively affected my experience.
Did that last night. Cant remember if i got xp and a loot crate for it, not seeing a problem though. Theres quite a few missions to choose and everyine started out with 1 lootcrate to open.
But that's literally the point of lootboxes. They put something you might want in the lootbox trying to entice you to roll for it over and over again so I don't see how you can be ok with lootboxes if this concerns you.
Don't you see the end goal of this system?
When people see others getting nice loots from the boxes, what will they do next?
Yes, buy the loot boxes themselves so they can also get those nice loots.
Youtubers who make lootbox videos are being paid per view. Some random person that buys lootboxes isn't getting paid for the advertising. That's why this is bullshit.
Seriously, $60 base game, $60 worth of post launch dlc, lootboxes that include cosmetics AND new guns, and now this predatory shit. I'm done with call of duty. This is the worst implementation of gaas I've ever seen.
To top it all off, it's all going to reset next year when the next cod game comes out. Activision is incredibly greedy. I can't think of another developer/publisher that has come anywhere close to stooping this low
Seriously, $60 base game, $60 worth of post launch dlc, lootboxes that include cosmetics AND new guns, and now this predatory shit. I'm done with call of duty. This is the worst implementation of gaas I've ever seen.
To top it all off, it's all going to reset next year when the next cod game comes out. Activision is incredibly greedy. I can't think of another developer/publisher that has come anywhere close to stooping this low
I don't enjoy those streams, but there does seem to be something different. I can't really imagine deriving any pleasure from seeing some rando unbox loot in a public lobby. But I could see a situation where someone might find some comedic value from some streamer unbox stuff and make commentary about all the junk they're getting.
One is like blatant advertising, the other is a weird kind of pseudo-voluntary advertisement where you're choosing to watch microtransaction purchases.
I watched Jeff Gerstmann drop $50 on Overwatch lootboxes during a UPF and thought it was pretty damned funny.
I don't care if someone opens a loot box in private. Opening loot boxes in public exist just to promote more gambling and loot boxes.
If someone wanna do this daily, they are basically forced to watch gambling.
Jeffs getting paid to do that though. Not only is it his job to make fun content like that, but it brings more clicks and $$$.
If you drop $50 on WW2 loot boxes and have people watch you, you won't get anything aside from (appearantly) better drop rates.
It's getting to the point where you're paying activision for the "privilege" of suckering other people in to buy lootboxes.
Oh, I agree. I'm just saying there is merit to watching streamers/personalities open loot boxes, which some people ITT are baffled by.
GB does it with DotA as well and those videos are always super popular.
i guess. but it's not as if other games don't show you what people get regardless of whether or not you want to. like destiny 2.
This is worse. It's a $60 game, with $60 worth of dlc, loot boxes, and a sequel coming out next year.
Now, on top of all of that, you're encouraged to watch other people open loot boxes, and encouraged to have other people watch you open loot boxes. But you're not getting paid to do this, you're just being rewarded with MORE lootboxes (only 1 at a time though, more costs extra) and better drop rates, encouraging you to keep the cycle going.
It's gross