I should have brought this up before. I thought microtransactions were banned by the Government. How does Infinite still have them?
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Closest I’ve heard is that some Governments ban Loot Boxes.
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Yeah, they’re thinkin’ lootboxes. Which in itself can be nice if they’re not predatory and there aren’t any repeats… cough Gacha games cough.
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No, microtransactions are not banned. You’re thinking of the whole Star Wars: Battlefront 2 debacle. That game had loot boxes but they were changed when it became apparent to everyone that their loot boxes were designed as pay to win. The courts got involved mostly because Star Wars is populated by a lot of children or young teens who could use the loot boxes as a gambling device to try and win their beloved Star Wars game.
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No, just lootboxes in some places. Fortunately for all of us, 343 Industries seems to be above that practice.
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I wish they were banned, usually they are predatory, it’s shameful
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its true that star wars battlefrond 2 debacle has start it all but the fortnite and Fifa debacle’s have make it only more worse that you get things like this more.
if there bann microtransactions you wane pay then a lot off money then for the game in return?
then there are also no Free to play game’s any more at all.
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The difference between loot boxes and standard stores like Infinite is that loot boxes are a form of gambling as you pay money for something unknown to you and the game decides what you get in return. Infinite (and others) have stores where you know what you’re buying.
It’s the gambling / unknown aspect of paying money that some countries have banned. That’s why stores are still a thing in games such as Halo 5 etc…
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It’s more the predatory side of it, whilst I appreciate the work and effort that goes into games, a more solid approach would work better, generally iv’e found in sales that a lower price usually brings in more profit.
ie - list a coating at 10 bucks and maybe sell 100, list it as 5 bucks and potentially sell 200 for example, iv’e not bought 1 thing from the store, if prices were lower I probably would.
I should of phrased it better, maybe not ban but should be regulated better, peace and happy gaming 
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back in the old day’s you got it right but not now anymore.
the company’s that developer game’s for us need also have a way to make some money in return what there have spent in the game make for us.
one thing there know is sell the game for a high price is not going to help since nobody will buy a game for more then 100 dolar.
so to keep the price for the game more the same there need to do something else.
and what there have learn is to is not use the pay to win formule any more.
so selling weapons players can buy for real money and use in there game’s is wrong.
so the best way is selling costmatic stuff more.
like armor’s or weapon skins.
you also remember good the halo 3, halo reach and halo 4 system that there use the DLC system.
that you can buy the dlc pack’s for new multiplayer maps and game mode’s.
and we all have see how that have end it wrong at some point.
so thats why in halo 5 there have make the DLC’s free but in return we got the REQ packs.
sure it was not the best system in halo 5.
but now in halo infinite there only sell costmatic stuff like you see in other game’s also like weapon skins.
its the same how it works in the real world.
now that the gas is so high means also that you pay more for the electric and gas at home.
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I agree. The only reason why some of these games are allowed to do the types of microtransactions that they do is because you must first purchase one of their “premium currencies” then this currency can only be used for just about anything in-game.
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its more the way how people are spending it in the game’s more.
we all have hear the story’s from FIFA and fortnite how little childeren spent millions off dollars from there parents credit cards on the microtransactions in the game’s like we have see in FIFA and fortnite.
then its not the child fault but the game developer more gets the blame for it.
and then we see that microtransactions in game’s get also a worse reputation when its need to keep the sell the game for a good price that its buyable.
same in the US more that there blame Shooter game’s like COD for the shooting problems in the country there.
in the end its always that there blame the game’s for it and not think good about it if its there own fault.
Wait, if Fortnite has done what Reboot Battlefront 2 did, how come the Government didn’t target it?
Fortnite didnt do exactly what EA Battlefront 2 did. Theres actually a few pretty big differences. For one, nothing in Battlefront 2 was on a timer, it was just obscenely overpriced as well as pay-2-win. So if someone spent a couple hundred bucks on the game, even though it was their first day playing, they could be leagues ahead of people who had been playing every day for weeks. Another bug difference is that fortnite doesnt have a single loot box in their store, so theres no “chance” items to buy. That was where Battlefront ran into legal trouble. The US congress compared it to a casino experience for children (because it is), and so they justified banning it because kids under 21 had the ability to access gambling. Fortnite doesnt have any gambling, just ridiculously obnoxious and predatory marketing tactics.
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points at Halo 5
Ummmm… I can’t if you’re being sarcastic or serious, but H5 was nothing but loot boxes.
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Sure season passes/in game stores aren’t as bad as loot boxes but they’re not much better. I wouldn’t call it fortunate.
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The only lootbox system I liked was Halo 5 Gorbians’.
Mainly because when you unlocked cosmetics in the game, YOU NEVER GOT DUPLICATES IN THE REQ PACKS !
Unlike, oh I dunno -
- Call of Duty
- Rainbow Six Siege
- CSGO
I could go on, but that would eventually leading to games that shouldn’t be played whatsoever; and I don’t like to think about those type of games.
You know, I forget about Halo 5’s REQ packs most of the time. Touché.
‘Fortunate’ in a sadistic sense is what I meant to imply. In a more perfect world, 343 would tone down their financial ambition some and maintain the aspects of Halo that make it so likeable in the first place. For example… selling a complete product for a single charge.
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in fortnite case is compleet diffrend from the start wars Battlefront 2 case.
since in fortnite is more the case that childeren spent like few millions dollar from there parents credit card on in the game on costmatic stuff.
and its not the game company fault or the Government since its compleet the parents fault from the childeren.
but there blame the game company from the game more for it what is the parents fault more.
and from fifa was it more spending a lot off money on the lootboxen packs there have done the childeren with there parents credit cards.
about the government not do anything is more wierd to say now more.
in my country there have try to bann the lootboxen from Fifa but there fail hard with it.
the reason was that there are 2 way’s to get the lootboxen in the fifa game.
by real money.
and points you make by playing the game.
the same as the REQ system in halo 5 that you get points for playling the multiplayer or warzone to buy the packs.
or spent real money on it.