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Should we boycott games with loot boxes? (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have been avoiding multiplayer Valve games like Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2, due to their in-game economies that have created an underage gambling gray market, which Valve has done little about. However, I am on Linux, and the choices for multiplayer shooters are few. Besides, my small boycott is not stopping Counter-Strike 2 from being the most played steam game. Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming? How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just play "Team Fortress 2 Classic" or "Open Fortress" both are really cool community projects without crates, or any micro transactions as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Those projects look great! I will have to check both those out. My problem with a lot of community FPS games is that the community is just too small to play regularly (like Xonotic, for instance).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yea, thats where you'll find some issues sadly. I'm not a regular but I manage to find one or two servers with a decent player count most of the time.