What Scandals ?
Nope EA is losing a ton of money due to a couple of scandals and poor sales.
Nope EA is losing a ton of money due to a couple of scandals and poor sales.
That's nothing new. Australia is notorious for banning games for similar reasons to China.China is notorious for their their twisted censorship. You're not allowed freedom and there are plenty of government officials earning paychecks for making decisions instead of you. Sick and mindblowing decisions if you ask me.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-china-ban
So, the reason for ban is not scammy microtransactions. It's whatever irrelevant else.
Lootboxes are still being investigated:The Environment and Communications References Committee of the Australian Senate has completed its inquiry into the extent to which gaming micro-transactions for chance-based items, sometimes referred to as 'loot boxes', may be harmful.
The war against lootboxes is still going on obviously in Australia. In China, sadly, no.One of the committee's chairs, The Greens senator Jordon Steele-John, is behind the push for a wider look into the feature and whether they could pose any gambling-related harm, especially to children. However, he criticised the "watered-down report," which only made a single recommendation.
"Many loot boxes utilise a number of psychological mechanisms commonly seen in other forms of gambling, including variable ratio reinforcement schedules, entrapment, and ready and constant availability," Steele-John said.
"Furthermore, it was argued that the risk to children, young people and even vulnerable adults from developing gambling-related harms through interaction with loot boxes was of such significance that regulators should seek to either prohibit, or restrict access to games containing loot boxes.
“As chair, I sought to follow this evidence and recommended the Parliament take action to ensure that no young person who plays video games is exploited by gambling-like mechanisms."
Battlefields 5, bad PR campaign, censorship, poor sales & launch party that made fun of buyers. I could go on but things are just as bad as they are at Bethesda.What Scandals ?
Tweets from the guy in charge of the games Narrative and writing.So the bearded guy won't buy another Dragon Age game because of some tweets..
Yet another WoW killer trying it's luck on phones too.Because video game versions of card games are now a license to print money, 1939 games have decided to take the Second World War and turn it into Gwent.
That game is called Kards and is a digital CCG (collectible card game), so the aim is to get you playing for free then buying packs of cards containing more/better tanks and fighters, which thematically is a change from the wizards and elves you normally get in a CCG.
Kards is coming to PC first, then mobile devices.
Blockchain today is a buzzword for idiots.Blockchain Based PC Platform Robot Cache Announces 22 Publishers and Over 700 Games Coming
Bethesda may well have breached General Data Protection Regulation with the way they've been pushing ads for Zenimax products (who Bethesda operates under) through the use of the Bethesda Account creation process.
As you surely know by now, modern Bethesda games such as Fallout 76 and, potentially, Rage 2, do not use Steam, but Bethesda.net, and this means the creation of new user accounts for buyers. Turns out, Bethesda has been pushing ads for other Zenimax products in a particularly underhanded way.
Still not done yet time for some SJW slaying.
I can link a VOX article for more laughs if of you want.Though thinking that Pewdiepie is unfunny is not exactly an SJW-exclusive opinion.
His YouTube channel is separate from the website.What is funny is the fact that the bearded guy advertises his "no politics, only games" fundraiser in every single video where he bashes the far left.
Bethesda Circumventing Data Protection to Push Zenimax Ads
Link - https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/Bethesda-bypass-GDPR-ads
Wait what?
A guy got fired not over scamming the audience but because verbal "abuse"? WTF?!