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Should we boycott games with loot boxes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 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] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Video game boycotts are an absolute fucking joke. Especially if organized here. I mean what % of consumers are on Lemmy? Like 0.00000000000000001%? For fuck sake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Come on, it's gotta be at least 10^-7^%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At most, yes. I just didn't wanna make 14 paragraphs of zeros lol.