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China to force online games with loot boxes publicly announce item probabilities
- Thread starter chillybright
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Abilidebob
Member
Well, I can trade, sell or even "recycle" those duplicates, so they still have value for me.
metalmachine
Member
I don't get why they puts such efforts into legislation on loot box probabilities when there are so many other issues China has that really deserve more attention.
No, they are not
But st least you can figure out how much you would have to spend to get xxx item.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
Revealing the chinese probability doesn't mean it will be the US probability right?
Probably not, people are going to let them know they want the same though. Most likely will happen soon after.
If there's a difference, we should be able to compare them using the charts for the China version.
I think.
Compare what though? We would need to open tons and tons of in game crates just to have anything remotely close to the probabilities. It's like flipping a coin, flip it a few times and you get a skewed result. Flip it over a longer period of time and it evens out.
While true, I expect a flood of videos of people opening 10 loot boxes in these games, someone not getting what they wanted, and saying it's a huge scam and Blizzard/Valve/Activision/whoever should be put out of business, etc etc. Too many people don't understand/don't care to learn how statistics work.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Never tell me the odds
BigEmil
Junior Member
They will probably change the probabilities just before the stats show up and different probabilities for different regions
Psychoward
Banned
That would be pretty fucking scummy.
Diddy Kong
Banned
very nice !
BlackBuzzard
Banned
When China is the first to do something about this bullshit, then you know the rest of the world fucked up by sitting on its hands.
Robottiimu2000
Member
Whoa! This is huge!
Randy Monk
Member
It won't change anything I reckon
There are signs like this all over my state but people still spend a shit load of time and money on the pokies (slot machines)
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
It won't change anything I reckon
There are signs like this all over my state but people still spend a shit load of time and money on the pokies (slot machines)
The human mind turns that poster into this:
Toni
Member
Its easy money and nobody wants to mess up the easy money stream.
Its truly unbelievable how things are today.
It won't change anything I reckon
There are signs like this all over my state but people still spend a shit load of time and money on the pokies (slot machines)
Raylan Targaryen
Member
We don't, and the publishers will take advantage of that.
miller.skippins
Banned
Han Solo am cry (T_T) RIP.
How is it possible for them to not know the drop rate? Is someone else creating the actual crates?
I'm not familiar with Anarchy Online so I don't know how their system works.
This thread is so fucked. China do something good. Some GAFers praise them for that one good act and some other GAFers are acting as if praising means wanting to be assimilated by China. Smh.
Anyway on topic: what are the chances for similar rulings to be implemented in Western markets?
Anyway on topic: what are the chances for similar rulings to be implemented in Western markets?
Extend this to mobages 😭
No doubt.
100+ days left of crooked Dota chests
Valve just changes the odds for China so they look less abusive than they really are. They don't have to show shit for the odds that the rest of the world gets.
Juked.
I saw the odds they posted for the dota chests - hilariously fabricated and way more generous than the norm.