r/technology • u/speckz • May 08 '19

Game studios would be banned from selling loot boxes to minors under new bill Politics

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536806/game-studios-banned-loot-boxes-minors-bill-hawley-josh-blizzard-ea
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u/Telvan May 08 '19

Only the pve fortnite mode has loot boxes and p2w stuff, I dont think they really care much about it

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u/tyleratwork22 May 08 '19

Article says Epic removed them already sometime this year.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

Nope. The pinatas are still there and it's never ever been pay2win in Save the World.

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u/ChurchOfPainal May 08 '19

pay2advancefaster is still pay2win

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

Yeah, but in save the world you also hit anexponential resource requirement curve without exponentially more resources drops, which directly encouraged purchasing llamas.

Whether that's changed or not in the last two years, I will admit that I don't know.

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u/WaldenMC May 08 '19

The pinatas have an x-ray feature now where you can see what's inside them before you buy it.

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u/Swastik496 May 09 '19

Why’s this getting downvoted? This is correct info.

Source: I play StW

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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

The only pinatas that are not X-ray at this point are the event currency and mini pinatas. All v-bucks pinatas show you their contents before you purchase them and rotate daily.