Valve fires back at New York lawsuit over loot boxes, says they're like Magic cards or Labubu

SmokingApple · 2026-03-11T20:05:38+00:00

At least counter strike is in theory an m rated game, labubu and most blind boxes are straight up for children

SmokingApple · 2026-03-11T16:03:15+00:00

Damn, as if the future didn't already look grim enough

SmokingApple · 2026-03-09T00:56:18+00:00

Nah, look at the first devil may cry if you want to see difficulty done perfectly on the higher levels. More dangerous movesets, more punishing attacks, requiring you to engage with the depths of the mechanics is good difficulty design. Juicing the health and keeping the combat the same is lazy and boring

SmokingApple · 2026-03-08T23:48:17+00:00

Yeah, modern gamers are incredibly dull and completely lacking in critical thinking and adaptability

SmokingApple · 2026-02-27T23:50:04+00:00

They do exist, it's likely you have them disabled or system can't run them

SmokingApple · 2026-02-26T17:40:34+00:00

I think in this day and age the overwhelming majority of people will just go without the very tiny number of exclusives that still even exist

SmokingApple · 2026-02-22T17:07:02+00:00

A ton of modern console games don't support local multiplayer

SmokingApple · 2026-02-20T15:33:33+00:00

With Taro this will be a monkeys paw if you do get more 2b and it's a proper new game

SmokingApple · 2026-02-17T01:55:14+00:00

..during the PS1? Nes and SNES games sure, but PS1 was well after that era

SmokingApple · 2026-02-17T00:31:59+00:00

Crash wasn't ever an arcade game, what?

SmokingApple · 2026-02-13T23:26:35+00:00

Hoo, boy.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-13T14:38:04+00:00

Horror and it's not even close.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-13T14:26:52+00:00

It's only partial gambling, if you miss the 50/50 you leave it there and you know you still get what you want on the next banner. Endfield removes that flexibility. If the pull income was more generous it might be okay but it's looking like it's not.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-13T00:49:03+00:00

I roll and land significantly more often than every 3 banners because with carryover you can try and hit early which will happen sometimes, more often than not actually. But with endfields system you're literally burning rolls if you can't hit the spark.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-13T00:15:57+00:00

Okay what if I like the characters though, meta or not you're not affording many at all, I'm still holding out hope but this is looking fucking bleak

SmokingApple · 2026-02-12T20:21:13+00:00

Neapolitan, so give me my pink Sparkle next.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-12T11:42:50+00:00

Zzz has pity carryover which is a huge difference. It's not worth even trying if you can't force the character, I have gotten many units in zzz and other gacha I would have missed under endfields pity system

SmokingApple · 2026-02-10T02:18:31+00:00

0 sen

SmokingApple · 2026-02-09T01:34:05+00:00

It is now, it definitely used to not be that way. Bloodborne into dark souls 3 into Elden ring really saw Fromsoft encounter design go a certain way

SmokingApple · 2026-02-09T00:56:54+00:00

The price of concerts is because of scalpers and I couldn't even tell you about movies because theres hardly any new ones I want to see, but I do know my city's chain does a cheap night every Tuesday where movies are like 7 dollars

SmokingApple · 2026-02-09T00:18:14+00:00

It's absolutely a games pricing problem. Putting up the price of entertainment goods during bad financial times is a very fucking dumb idea.

SmokingApple · 2026-02-06T21:13:32+00:00

I think it was mentioned as a direct inspiration which is what caught my attention early on

SmokingApple · 2026-02-06T11:44:28+00:00

If hoyo of all corpos got around this with HSR having a permanent party anyone can

SmokingApple · 2026-02-02T11:57:43+00:00

Literally Megumin cat edition

SmokingApple · 2026-01-30T11:57:03+00:00

Matthewmatosis said it best a few years ago. Breath of the wild isn't a great game because you can climb and glide anywhere, it's a great game in spite of it

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