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Spent 500$ and didn't get a single box, how come EME?
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They only thing you can do it write a letter to your local gambling authority to help get lootboxes classified as gambling to get rid of the damn things in games once and for all. EA already did most of the legwork for you with SW Battlefront 2 but every extra bit helps.
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This is gambling , you gambled you lost simples
Can't believe you droped 500 on loot box's , and then whine bout it srlsy
Well, loot boxes are already banned in Europe since it was determined as a form of gambling. Now it is not about how they could say "hey I told you so". Even if it is clearly stated, the vast majority of Tera players are underage, whether minors are exposed to gambling is not mine to say.
Their product is in a pitiful state so they sell you costumes and gimics to stay in business. If costumers only bought once then they wouldnt make that much. So you make it just like gambling. Do you think everyone who goes into a casino comes out a winner? or do 95% of the people lose while only 5% get lucky and win.
Sadly, it's often the only way available. So you shall also think if you REALLY need the item that much. I mean, you spend 500$ and left empty-handed anyway, so you could actually live without it. Then don't spend any. At least in future.
The game is rated M in NA. And no their not outlawed in Europe. Belgium wants to classify lootboxes as gambling thus effectively banning them from every game thats not rated AO.
Sorry. But i would by allot more stuff from the EMP store if i could buy the costumes i want directly for my characters. Ive been burned by lootboxes before and will refuse to spend a single cent on them again and i doubt i'm the only one with this mindset.
Again, it was in the item description.
This game's rated M, so that's probably how they skate around the whole "selling gambling to kids" thing.
Anyway, this is why lootboxes are bad. They exist to prey on first-timers who go in thinking they'll get something after like, 5-10 boxes. And then when they get nothing after 10, they fall into the gambler fallacy and the sunk cost fallacy ("I've opened 10, the odds of failing 10 more in a row would be super low; I'm guaranteed to win if I just buy 10 more" and "I've come this far, it'd be a waste to stop now!") and keep buying until they're frustrated and out of cash. For some reason there's no end to these people, and then there're the whales who enjoy the rush and do it regularly.
Just know it going forward. Even though you buy lootboxes with the outfit in mind, lootboxes don't exist to give you an item. If anything it's the opposite, because as long as you don't get the item you'll keep buying boxes and giving EME your money.
If the complaints were over loot boxes then it wouldn't take until EA sells a game full of pay to win for loot boxes to be noticed, as EA has gambling in other games, and lets not forget Blizzard as well as Steam. Even LoL has "loot boxes".