So now that the state of Hawaii, and Belgium have declared loot boxes gambling, how long until SWGoH has to actually start labelling precisely what they are selling?
I cannot spend my money any longer on 7-330 roulette drops knowing that statistically it will be 7, over 90% of the time.
All we want is to know exactly what we are buying, not what we have a chance of buying.
This makes the gaming world a better place, but more importantly, a safer place.
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Watch CBS news tech report on the response from the shareholders “who are “gamers”, too”.
Australia have just said it's gambling as well.
It will still likely be months but as it is gambling involving children I'm expecting an accelerated response.
No rigging Of any kind? Can you elaborate?
If I look in the store it says for money items "guaranteed drops". For ones bought with crystals it is "potential". Now clearly you can buy crystals with cash but you can also obtain them FTP. The only thing where you have to lay out money they term as "guaranteed" so no gamble. I have never bought one so don't know if there are possible gains above that but anyway, there may be a reason they have termed things like this. If you want to say stuff where FTP items are gambled well, the whole game is a gamble since it is based on RNG.
I am not saying I like this sort of thing, especially not is stuff like BFII where you paid up front but I would think there is a reason for the above and they are probably in the clear.
mind to post the %? when you say they are not cheating people out of shards what do you mean? is the chance to get 5 shards the same of 330? or you mean the expected value, this is, chance to get 5 shards (%) * 5 shards = chance to get 330 shards (%) * 330 shards?
I have paid a few times for the 7-330 drop pack: the best I got was 7. Not only do we have consumers here stressing that point, but also YouTubers who spend large amounts of cash blatantly warning us not to buy these packs knowing, and showing on video that even with large investment, statistically you will get on average 10 shards for over a thousand crystals.
This is a gamble that you will not 'win'. The odds are most definitely against you, almost all the time.
BF2 was changed because enough people voiced concern. A change for the better of the consumer was made. Why not GoH?
Because BF2 wasn’t free. That is a huge difference here.
The irony is knowing how this game could make so much more money if only they would either decrease costs, or increase quantity of what you buy. Currently it is absolutely, without a doubt, far too expensive for such low value product. Even if I had to pay €30 for a full 7* character, it would still be a complete waste of money: you are buying a tiny little character in a silly little game with zero real world value. Yet it costs far more than €30 for one of so many characters that they just keep multiplying.