The Year Of The Loot Box (The Jimquisition)

No. It isn't. I don't like loot boxes, but they are in no way gambling just being your rewards are randomized. If some loot boxes contained literally nothing, then maaaybe it could be a violation. Maybe.

Isn’t this whole charade a flagrant violation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006?

Right now, the stock market is viewing EA as any other stock... Wall Street believes it will rebound. They believe that EA knows what they're doing - they know how to manipulate their market because they've done it so well in the past... probably. Well, I'm not buying this game. I don't have time or money to save up for Darth Vader or whatever else it is that they're trying to peddle, so you get value for your time. I saw the first Star Wars movie in 1978 in the theater when I was 5, but you can shit on the whole franchise for what it's become.

you must get a lot of love from the local deer population with all that salt X'''D

zosa

"Giving players the choice to skip parts of our game" is still my favorite excuse for this kinda shit. Like, "We'll admit our game isn't actually fun if it means people will give us money" would be more truthful but... we... we're talking about video game PR people here so...

Naterkix

I decided to pop a dollar a month over the next couple of years instead of buying another Activision game over the same period. Huzzah!

Good god, please don't even suggest making the non-mobile market "free-to-play" across the board, even in jest. You think the vast majority of Steam's offerings are a wasteland of Unity asset flips NOW?

Kraken

Happy to pledge . Thank God for Jim Sterling !

Keep up the amazing work!

Stefan Kent

That was a pretty damn sizzling Jimquisition. You're doing good work Jim, to the point and yet entertaining. Keep it up!

Björn Hansson

Thanks to you, I've put a kibosh on buying paid content for most modern games now (except League of Legends, that still goes to them directly and the season 8 changes are really fun). Instead of being bilked by Blizzard for upwards of $50 every time some new skins come out, I'll just throw Jim a few dollars instead. Saves me money overall, and is a damn sight more fulfilling than pulling the slot machine lever over and over again. Most triple-A games aren't worth it; I'll be looking to Japanese games to scratch my itch until North American publishers get their act together (Pokemon, Monster Hunter).

whomsdtve

Here's a dollar. Hopefully this will pass and you'll have new bullshit to talk about soon enough. (EDIT: In the sense of "Maybe this shit will finally get regulated or cause an industry collapse and disappear from the goddamn market.")

NekoIncardine

Should be able to just link the Youtube version directly, as far as I know.

NekoIncardine

hahahahaha LOVE THE HATE, and that sly little 1984 reference was genius as well. What was that old *they came for the jews and i said nothing since i wasnt a jew...* etc etc. Simple fact is players actually have to fight back and that only works with your wallet since all these companies live for the stock market. Valve being the exception (unless things changedd and i missed that). So yea pretty easy...its a blizz game...dont buy, it havent bought one in almost 10 years - if u played their games in the 90s and 00s u already know them all anyway , not like they had any kind of original idea since than..... Same is actually true for almost all the big ones. went through my library and realised i havent played anything that was made or published by the quatrumvirate of cumdumping in a good long while and judging from the things i do see on utubs bout all these *amazing AAA experiences* i dont feel like i'm missing anything....

nice

So this crap is spreading beyond "in game"? Wow. Just wow. I think this is pure greed. I say keep going Jim - you seem to be the voice of reason...for now. Have hope - it will end. One way or another. And I certainly thank my fictional being of choice for Jim Sterling.

This is the Video I finally joined Patreon for. Thank God for you Jim!

Daniel Mohl

Is there anyway to share yoyr video on Reddit? Not sure if you've noticed but there's a huge upswell of anti EA microtransaction going on in the Reddit community (EA just earned the most downvoted comment in Reddit history when trying to defend micros in BF2), Jims video series are a great way to educate the reddit masses.

as he said, rip and tear!

Bang on again Jim! Should I mention EA is hiring a Futurist to double-down on how to take the current AAA monetization regime INTO THE FUTURE.

Andy

Reply by ea, down votes are priceless lmao

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How do you feel about Team Fortress 2?

Rawk Hawk

Which part?

Rawk Hawk

Don't think I missed the little snippet of Doom music you snuck in there--nice touch. ;)

Ed

If anything Blizzard is MORE to blame than every other dev, since it was a lot more popular after they did it. Sure some games did it before but once blizzard decided to throw them into their game the entire industry decided to follow suit.

Jet Edge

Thank God for Jim. Glad to see you still on this. There was a discussion of the sustainability of the games market on reset era recently. If this is the way the AAA games companies want to continue doing business, good riddance.

Wesley Novak

And in general just Fuck Konami...

Adam C.

Nice reference to Orwell's 1984 Jim!!!

Joined the Patreon, thank god for Jim Sterling. :)

Bryan Austin

I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy.