Loot Boxes & Microtransactions: Necessary Evil Or Just Wrong?

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What To Expect: The Far Cry 4 panel will give attendees insight into how Ubisoft created the game's fictional locale of Kyrat , which included a trip to Nepal with the HBO show VICE. Ubisoft will also crown a winner for their Quest for Everest contest, which sends one lucky fan to the summit of Mt. Everest to play video ga

It's been said that DLC and microtransactions are a necessary evil. The price of a video game in 2017 is the same as it was in 2005, and the secondhand market continues to eat into profits. DLC and loot boxes allow some money to ultimately find its way into the hands of publishers and developers, even if that player purchased their copy of Shadow of War from GameStop or a local used game st

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What To Expect: Set between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor will take players on a special journey. Attendees should expect to learn more about the Nemesis System , which gives players unique enemies throughout the campaign, and see more of the title's gameplay in act

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The most expensive Season Pass DLCs cost $50. At launch, with the Pass, the first Star Wars Battlefront cost $110. Batman: Arkham Knight cost $100. A perceived benefit of loot boxes is that the premise of microtransactions take the place of a traditional DLC system. Some games which bring in money from loot boxes, actually eschew paid map packs; Titanfall 2, Killzone: Shadowfall, Uncharted 4, Halo 5 , and even Star Wars Battlefront II have released (or will release, in the case of Star Wars ) all additional maps and modes without charging players. This allows all players to play together no matter how much money they put in after their initial purchase of the game. This keeps the community alive, which means there's a greater chance that more players will spend money on microtransactions. If more players are playing, then more players are pay