You are right, totally. There is monetization, and there is monetization. Not all systems are equal. Maybe because I didn’t play any games with lootboxes lately I could moarly forget about them.
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kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year agoto me it’s a bit more complicated.
even if it’s a multi-player game like Dota 2, even though their item are purely cosmetical and arguably have 0 competitive advantage. their method of selling is still predatory ad fuck, lots of lootboxes for exploiting gambling addiction, limited availability stuff to trigger FOMO.
that’s fucking shite.
illi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
r1veRRR@feddit.de 1 year ago
With the second hand market, Dota 2 (and CSGO) are LITERALLY excatly like trading card games. Noone gave a fuck for years about those. Hell, of all “predatory” systems, Dota 2 is the absolute most fair, most tame one. The only realistic alternative are 20 dollar skins, like with Overwatch 2.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
plenty of skins are not tradeable in dota2 and were exclusive to a given time period.
trading cars games are predatory too