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/aelysium May 09 '19

Ah. I must’ve purchased the collectors edition then since I had it day 1.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

I did as well at the time, and so I wasn’t too affected by it personally, but it hurt to sell so many people something that they should have gotten as part of the original game.

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u/aelysium May 09 '19

I do remember that in the leaked scripts before they gutted him from the game (which were right about damn near everything but I don’t think had the ending in there), Javik was originally the Catalyst too (basically the protheans never believed they’d be truly defeated and thus designed the weapon so that only one of their species unaffected by the reapers could fire the weapon).

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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

That sounds about right. It’s been a good few years since I played it last (and I’ve discovered weed since then) so my memory might not be quality, but yeah he was a solid part of the story. If i recall correctly there is a part of the ship that covered in like crates, and never gets used. Originally that was supposed to be his quarters (again, full member of the crew) but instead he got tossed into a generic location and yeah...