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Games Considered Gambling? What Could This Mean For Games Like Hearthstone & Magic The Gathering?

ThisGenGaming says: "You’ve all heard about the recent internet outrage at EA’s money-making schemes for Star Wars: Battlefront II. And more recently, you might have heard the Belgian government was investigating if games that allowed you to pay for random items with real world currency don’t constitute as “gambling”. This does raise the question if it’s only the games with lootboxes that should fall under scruteny. After all, there are entire games that are built around people spending money to have a better chance at winning than their opponents. The first type of game that comes to mind are Trading Card Games (TCG)..."

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Snookies122348d ago

Never really thought about it for the TCG side of things... Technically, you are paying money for something that has unknown contents in the hopes of a payout.

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Cmv382347d ago

trading cards might be different, since trading cards are in stores. Or maybe this is how loot boxes will be justified, saying they are just like trading card games.

bloodyspasm2347d ago

Hearthstone is a digital game only at the moment (I think the WoW paper TCG has been discontinued) and Magic has two digital games:MTGO which is a HUGE business and Magic Duels (soon to be replaced by Magic Arena, a game they hope will be easier to get into than the "advanced" MTGO)

Zabatsu2347d ago

Really can't compare. Your normal, regular video games has always been one price, that is when you purchase it. The business model for card games, whether it be irl or digital, has always had a price for the cards. Can't really compare that to MTs in real games.

bloodyspasm2347d ago

I agree that games that charge the full amount shouldn't try to earn more via MTs when it can be avoided. And most digital cardgames don't ask a price up front (Though Magic Duels of the Planeswalkers did...). But that has nothing to do with why the business model is being investigated as "gambling": the fact is that you're paying money for an unknown return of value, be it weapons and star cards in SW BFII or different valued cards in TCGs...

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Exclusive MTG Murders at Karlov Manor Spoilers (Card Reveals)

Murders at Karlov Manor is coming soon and TechRaptor can exclusively reveal two of the new cards you might find in booster packs soon

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11 best cards in the new MTG Ravnica Remastered set

Curious about the best cards in MTG Ravnica Remastered? We've covered a range of artifacts, creatures, and instants that will change your game. Again.

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Wizards of the Coast admits to using generative AI after MTG artist quits

An MTG artist has quit after the Wizards of the Coast AI art debacle, and there's a statement from the company too.

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BrainSyphoned104d ago

So in order to protest AI taking over your job you walk out on your job so AI gets it without a fight. The landscape is changing and you just stamped your resume with your inability to cope and adapt.

OtterX104d ago (Edited 104d ago )

I left a job at a game studio this last year bc I was regularly being encouraged to use Midjourney to generate concepts as well as Marketing materials.I was heavily painting into them, reworking them so a portion of it was mine... but a portion of it was not.

At first, I didn't understand why I fell into a depression... I felt like my soul was being sucked away. I didn't understand the technology, and the more I learned, the guiltier and more dead I felt inside.

I put in my notice, and at least they were kind enough to arrange my departure in a way where I can collect unemployment.

But yea, this stuff is dirty. It's stealing from other artists who did not approve their stuff to be used. I felt like a weight was lifted off of me, even though I'm stressing to find a new job again.

Inverno104d ago

For personal use I'm not against, I think people just wanna gatekeep art rather than embrace a new way of creating things. But when it comes to companies I don't think it's correct. I don't blame you or anyone for leaving a job when presented with a moral dilemma. Writing, drawing, painting, sculpting is a pretty intimate hobby. When you use ai to eliminate the artist, you aren't using ai the way it is intended to be used.

phoenixwing104d ago

That's the thing the company doesn't pay for the work they stole from artists to make the ai. It's a huge theft of property.