Free to play isn’t something that had been done. And htf were they gonna do that otherwise? Give out the game for free and operate at a loss? Clever.
The game wasn’t free until 4 years after release in 2011. Loot boxes were introduced in 2010.
Also when it went F2P, it surely has been done before, for example by League, which went F2P about two years before TF2 in 2009. So that timeline doesn’t track
The problem with their loot boxes isn’t only the content, but the fact that it’s designed to entice people to gamble on it while masquerading as something else. It’s predatory, and while there are other predatory systems in other games, theirs is quite devious; this is an opinion I’ve held since the matter gained public attention with the Belgian regulation in 2018.
Nice history lesson, again, did not request that that’s all you
I am aware of its history, it made a at the time dead game come back, sheerly due to the stupid colossal failure of a moral decision you claim they made. It made a bunch of hyper-competitive and underrepresented at the time, new, cosmetic focused collector-type YOLOFOMO gamers both shit and cream their goddamn pants.
This was a stunning stupid punt to make enough money to keep the game they, and many dedicated people, wanted to stay on, yet wouldn’t or couldn’t foot the bill, for. This was a morally just cause in many eyes. They INSPIRED bad companies. They didn’t design it in a laboratory to mislead you you fucking dunce, it just happened to be, at the time the quintessentially invisible, psychological vulnerability of the time, that was, exploited for an, at the time, entirely morally justifiable cause. Because we literally didn’t know that it was predatory, which was, SPECIFICALLY avoided by Valve all over the fucking highway but it was seriously what pays the bills and they’re not fucking immune from competitive business practices working in a system of both exploitive labor and business practices so expecting them to suddenly foundationally change their funding and put them in an easy place to be taken over and corrupted by the same shareholders and executives that own companies that ACTUALLY do that shit just because its works and they just think if it works its their fault but let’s try REALLY hard to exploit the shit outta them on purpose people must sit there and laugh, which is entirely against the fucking spirit and sentiment of the OP statement. So fuck off with that.
One, because fuck that, and two because fuck misdirecting that outrage and making things all around worse off. Well meant for sure, but destructive and undeserving of moral praise or claim IMNSHO
So yeah, back to the purpose of the entire essay, because that’s what this fucking became.
Was that I gotcha supposed to save your shitty take or something? Because it does not.
The game wasn’t free until 4 years after release in 2011. Loot boxes were introduced in 2010.
Also when it went F2P, it surely has been done before, for example by League, which went F2P about two years before TF2 in 2009. So that timeline doesn’t track
The problem with their loot boxes isn’t only the content, but the fact that it’s designed to entice people to gamble on it while masquerading as something else. It’s predatory, and while there are other predatory systems in other games, theirs is quite devious; this is an opinion I’ve held since the matter gained public attention with the Belgian regulation in 2018.
Nice history lesson, again, did not request that that’s all you
I am aware of its history, it made a at the time dead game come back, sheerly due to the stupid colossal failure of a moral decision you claim they made. It made a bunch of hyper-competitive and underrepresented at the time, new, cosmetic focused collector-type YOLOFOMO gamers both shit and cream their goddamn pants.
This was a stunning stupid punt to make enough money to keep the game they, and many dedicated people, wanted to stay on, yet wouldn’t or couldn’t foot the bill, for. This was a morally just cause in many eyes. They INSPIRED bad companies. They didn’t design it in a laboratory to mislead you you fucking dunce, it just happened to be, at the time the quintessentially invisible, psychological vulnerability of the time, that was, exploited for an, at the time, entirely morally justifiable cause. Because we literally didn’t know that it was predatory, which was, SPECIFICALLY avoided by Valve all over the fucking highway but it was seriously what pays the bills and they’re not fucking immune from competitive business practices working in a system of both exploitive labor and business practices so expecting them to suddenly foundationally change their funding and put them in an easy place to be taken over and corrupted by the same shareholders and executives that own companies that ACTUALLY do that shit just because its works and they just think if it works its their fault but let’s try REALLY hard to exploit the shit outta them on purpose people must sit there and laugh, which is entirely against the fucking spirit and sentiment of the OP statement. So fuck off with that.
One, because fuck that, and two because fuck misdirecting that outrage and making things all around worse off. Well meant for sure, but destructive and undeserving of moral praise or claim IMNSHO
So yeah, back to the purpose of the entire essay, because that’s what this fucking became.
Was that I gotcha supposed to save your shitty take or something? Because it does not.