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The defining month of the year is upon us! Middle Earth: Shadow of War is out and October is off to a strong start! A Hat in Time finally dropped and offers one of the most charming platforming experiences of the year thus far and Krispy talks about his time with The Evil Within just in time for the launch of the sequel. But a dark shadow looms on the horizon, a shadow in the shape of a Loot Box...
This Week's Discussion Topics:
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Middle Earth: Shadow of War
A Hat in Time
The Evil Within
Dino Crisis
The effect of Loot Boxes on the Industry
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7 years, 1 month ago
Great shows guys! Can't agree more with the loot box discussion. Even if opening the boxes isn't going to be considered gambling, it should be clear that people are showing gambling behavior with them. I know people who have spent 1 to 2 thousand on csgo loot boxes, that's opening boxes and doing actual gambling on sites. This was all before they even turned 18. There's kids younger than that opening cases as well. It's ruining games in my opinion, wish they would just go away.
7 years, 1 month ago
Regarding scary moments in non-horror games; I have a hard time with slow-ish moving enemies trying to get near me. I remember when first playing Ocarina of Time, leaving the Temple of Time as older Link, and the town now had these zombie-like creatures. Those things freaked me out big time.
7 years, 1 month ago
After hearing about the whole progression system tied to loot boxes in Battlefront 2, I feel like that is a worse implementation of loot boxes than in Shadow of War because it's possible for people to actively pay for advantages over others in game. You might still be able to earn them through playing, but that sort of thing seems like it has the potential to ruin people's experiences.
7 years, 1 month ago
The lootbox discussion was very interesting to listen to. Personally I'm fine, to a certain degree, with lootboxes in multiplayer games where its purely cosmetic. Dota 2 is one of those games and several years ago it was probably the best free to play game with cosmetics-only lootboxes at the time. I remember for a while you couldn't get duplicates, but I think I heard that duplicates is now a thing. And over the last few years Valve has become more greedy in the way they set up cosmetics and how you get them. They even have during "the international" some terrain-modifiers, which is cool etc, but they are removed once the tournament is over, which sounds like utter bullshit to me.
7 years, 1 month ago
One thing that's now mandatory in gacha in Japanese mobile games is that they are required by law to show the percentage of getting the specific item you want to get. For example the rate to get the items from the rarest class is 3%, and the promotional specific super rare item is like 0.75% for that limited time.
It keeps things transparent so you are fully informed as to what you are getting into instead of just spray and pray.