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Should we boycott games with loot boxes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been avoiding multiplayer Valve games like Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2, due to their in-game economies that have created an underage gambling gray market, which Valve has done little about. However, I am on Linux, and the choices for multiplayer shooters are few. Besides, my small boycott is not stopping Counter-Strike 2 from being the most played steam game. Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming? How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Yes. And you should boycott Steam because they practically invented gambling for underage. Watch the coffee-something video about it.

Now, 3,2,1 watch all the so-called gamers rip their shirt to defend this evil soulless capitalist business because "they offer a good service and care about gaming blablabla ubisoft bad blablabla".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you prefer GoG?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yes.

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