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The Netherlands joins Belgium in investigating lockboxes as games of chance
Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lockboxes/lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to...
Star Wars Battlefront 2: The AMA, Wall Street, and the Belgian gambling commission
In case you ever wanted to sniff the distinct scent of internet dumpster fire, you probably should've gone to the Star Wars Battlefront II...
Former SWTOR dev talks about designing ethical lockboxes
An extensive Twitter thread from former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert grappled with the timely and touchy topic of lockboxes and microtransactions...
RIFT’s fall festival lockboxes rankle players
The latest batch of lockboxes in RIFT isn't making friends among the playerbase.
The current Autumn Harvest lockboxes seem to contain more exclusive items than...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will have no personal boats, no big class overhauls, and no lockboxes
It's hard to imagine that anyone is going to be upset about the idea of no lockboxes in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth....
Guild Wars 2 balances classes and adds spectacular new mounts – for a price
Guild Wars 2 patched in new mounts today, and they're gorgeous. But don't get too excited; they're in gated behind a weird new RNG...
Economist argues that the ESRB is wilfully promoting gambling to children
If you've been following the lockbox/lootbox controversy over the last couple of weeks (or last multiple years, ahem), then you know that opponents of...
EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II and Phoenix Labs’ Dauntless walk back lockbox plans
Hey, you folks who say complaining about lockboxes never changes anything? You're demonstrably wrong.
It turns out that EA, which increased its revenues last quarter...
MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law
GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s cash shop is finally on the right track
Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash...
Twitch is now dispensing Halloween lockboxes in exchange for donations to streamers
Hey, since it's absurdity week, let's just roll with it: Twitch is getting in on the lockox/lootcrate/gamblebox action, making every streamer and channel party...
MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes
MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his...
Leaderboard: Do you buy lockboxes in MMOs? Take the ‘purity’ test
A week or two ago, Massively OP reader Sally Bowls proposed a Leaderboard too intriguing to pass up. "How about a poll on your...
Here’s how some online game developers justify lockboxes
Yes, it's apparently the Month of the Lockbox across the internet, as the level of discussion and controversy over how these items manipulate your mind...
UK lockbox gambling regulation petition receives baffling government response
A formal UK petition requesting that video game gambling laws be adjusted to include language covering lockboxes passed 10,000 signatures earlier this week, ensuring...
UK lawmakers examine lockboxes, PEGI leaves definitions to gambling commissions
The ESRB may not be interested in protecting gamers against predatory business model practices like lockboxes, but European regulators may be joining their Chinese...
But seriously, lockboxes suck, even if the ESRB doesn’t think they’re gambling. Stop buying lockboxes.
So, MMO players. Are you tired of hearing about lockboxes and gambleboxes? It feels like we've been complaining about them for like six or...
Standing Stone defends LOTRO lootbox plans
Pretty cheesed off over Lord of the Rings Online's plans to stuff best-in-slot gear into lootboxes with the upcoming instance cluster? Don't hold your...
This is how MMO lockboxes manipulate your mind
It is not going to shock you to hear that lockboxes are kind of evil. We here at Massively OP have been beating on...
Games business roundup: VR, Project Alloy, Pearl Abyss, pay-to-dress-up, Goldman Sachs, lockboxes, and Bluehole
By chance, a whole bunch of industry-related posts landed in our newsroom this week. Well, not entirely by chance; our tipsters showered us in...
