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RuneScape players accuse new lockbox promo of promoting gambling to children

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RuneScape announced yesterday a new promo that works in conjunction with its existing Treasure Hunter system. It's a bit of a lockbox system, with...

The Daily Grind: Are MMO lockboxes actually even worse than gambling?

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MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie made an interesting point in one of his recent Critical Writ videos that I think deserves some amplification and...
What's two times zero?

EVE Valkyrie will be getting loot boxes

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There's really no two ways about this particular tidbit of news. CCP is adding loot boxes to EVE Valkyrie, according to a recent interview....

SuperData’s new report suggests multiplayer console gamers are more susceptible to DLC and RMT than ever

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Gamers talk a big talk about horse armor DLC and pay-to-win and the evils of cash shops, but y'all keep buying anyway. That's according to...

Warframe posts drop rates for all its loot, hoping to ‘start a trend’

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Warframe's Digital Extremes is joining the very small list of online game developers being transparent about just what's in their lockboxes, lootboxes, gambleboxes, lootcrates,...
dress out.

Marvel Heroes is removing a la carte costumes and making lockboxes easier to get on consoles

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If you're playing Marvel Heroes on console and were hoping for a change in how the game handles lockboxes and individual costumes, the good...
IT'S ALL JUNK

Overwatch promises to reduce duplicate item rewards in lockboxes

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Since the only real form of progress in Overwatch involves skins, there's nothing more frustrating than opening a few dozen lockboxes and seeing every...
Titan-size!

City of Titans on endgame, alting, PvP, business models, lockboxes, and whales

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The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...
But why though.

Choose My Adventure: My frustration with Neverwinter’s lockboxes

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If you thought I was enjoying my time with Neverwinter as a whole, you would be right. I am enjoying my time with the...
Here's Mei! You like mei, right?

Blizzard is using a loophole to keep selling Overwatch lockboxes in China

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There's a law on the books in China that states you can't sell random loot boxes in an online game without disclosing the odds...
Here's Mei! You like mei, right?

Overwatch: Hero leaks, lockbox probabilities, and Korean political humor

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As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...

Academics and addiction experts weigh in on ‘pay-to-loot’ gambleboxes and lockboxes

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"Pay-to-win" is old news now -- game designers' new plan for hoovering all the cash out of our wallets is "pay-to-loot." According to IGN's Nathan...
AUGH

Riders of Icarus changes up its lockbox system

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Lockboxes: every MMO game's favorite subject, are we right? Over in the world of Riders of Icarus, Nexon is making a small but significant...

Here’s what’s in Neverwinter’s Cloaked Ascendancy lockboxes

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One of the many content chunks and upgrades landing in Neverwinter when Cloaked Ascendancy launches next week is... lockboxes. In fact, PWE put out...

Global Chat: Get over the lockbox debate already

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One of the largest and most enduring arguments of the MMO genre is the purpose, legality, and profitability of so-called lockboxes in games. We've...

MMO lockboxes, keys, and booster packs: Gambling or gaming?

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Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...
Every day, sadly.

Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG developer quotes of 2016

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One of the fun things we implemented on the site this year is a database of quotes from developers (among other entries) that are...

China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors

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Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...

Elder Scrolls Online rolls out lockboxes this week

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I'm sure you're as tired of hearing about lockboxes as we are of writing about them, but here we are and it's still happening....
Llook out, Llary! It's the llandlllord!

Guild Wars 2 has overhauled its lockboxes

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Guild Wars 2's lockboxes got a bit of revision in today's patch. "You won’t find boosters among your loot anymore, but you will find a...

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