Amid the latest turmoil regarding Electronic Arts' microtransactions and loot crates in the full-price Star Wars Battlefront II, I wanted to take a minute to look back on something that I'll freely admit - I used to love loot boxes in my games.
A frustrated FIFA 21 player has taken to twitter to calculate the true cost, in pounds spent or hours invested to obtain his Ultimate Team. Spoilers, it's one hell of an investment. In this opinion piece we examine the increasing practice of dressing gambling up as microtransactions, and the recent developments in Europe and the World to combat this insidious maleficence.
Twitter user @ScudzTV has calculated the real-world cost of creating his own dream eleven, in both hours invested and hard earned cash. He embarked on a seven tweet tirade, illustrating that to achieve this dizzying feat, a person would need to invest either twenty two thousand hours playing, or a poultry £80k ($111k).
Don't get me wrong. You can get a decent team by just playing. I have done this my self. Buy I agree to even get just one of these icons it's going to take such a grind to the point where even playing at intended is just not fun anymore or spending such a large amount of money.
Activision Blizzard's share price has been skyrocketing since December 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. The current price per share is $ 95, bringing the company's total value to $ 72 billion. Activision Blizzard celebrates success The corona pandemic is named as one of the factors for the increasing value of the company.
That is such a crazy amount of money. Good for them i guess?
"In its most recent financial quarter, the company made $ 1.2 billion from pure microtransactions, which was more than half of total revenue"
This does not bode well.
by people you mean kids parents who could give two craps about what this does to gaming.
Didn't they laid off devs last year???? From how Activision started in the 80s to what they have become it's an embarrassment but money talks
According to its developers, (Toys for Bob) Crash Bandicoot 4 will not feature microtransactions, despite the x-box storefront suggesting that it would contain “in-game-purchases”. Game Luster’s Rhiannon Bevan isn’t convinced due to publisher Activison’s track record. In this article, Rhiannon details the reasons for her concern.
Even if not there at launch, they will most likely add them in with an update, just like ctr, wont be a day 1 this time.
No "we" didn't. I assume the author is using the "Royal We." But, I honestly prefer set rewards and the option to buy from lists where I determine what I want over RNG. Some RNG isn't bad, but what 'loot boxes' means now isn't what it meant last generation. Loot boxes have been abused in order to inflate game time and to encourage people to spend real world money. There's a huge difference between Diablo 3/Borderlands and what EA has done in almost every game in the last year.
Loot boxes have become a victim of increased profit focus. EA isn't losing money for not having loot boxes in SWBF2 right now. They've already made a good amount of profit. The only thing the loot boxes are doing is not giving them that highly inflated profit they wanted out of the game.
We didn't.
The end.