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Winning gives you more spins; why would you ever cash out? It's like living in Las Vegas, there's no need for you to ever swap your currencies back. And the pr
by falcolas 6y ago
Winning gives you more spins; why would you ever cash out? It's like living in Las Vegas, there's no need for you to ever swap your currencies back.
And the precedent has been set when it comes to these kinds of monetization strategies. It has been normalized by FIFA, Overwatch, Clash of Clans, and every other game that has MTX of some sort.
We can even point blame at the XBox game store for this, for being early to the "abstracting the currency you're spending from real currency" race.
All these casino games are doing is sliding down the slippery slope already carved by these other industry giants.
- awinder 6y agoThere’s precedent, but this takes precedent to its logical conclusion (the game _is_ the loot box). Usually it’s the people taking things to the logical conclusion that helps us define boundaries, rightfully so. “It’s like living in Los Vegas” Hmm now here is an idea. It’s not quite like living in Las Vegas because people that do that are regularly converting to physical goods for life essentials, they’re eating and getting a roof etc. Maybe these guys should build a town where you can redeem for lodging and food etc, then I’m in.
- falcolas 6y agoI don't have hard data about the second part, but it strikes me as the two cash streams would be largely separate for most people who live in Las Vegas. I posit that they'll simply carry around the "cashout" tickets, and scan them back into the system the next time they visit the casino. I hypothesize that they rarely, if ever, actually cash out.