"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not (www.thegamer.com)

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 9 months ago

I'd say that creating the lootbox system that plagues modern games was Valve's biggest blunder, personally.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

I don't want to excuse Valve's involvement as they definitely shouldn't have joined on the wagon, but Valve jumped on an already existing wagon, they didn't create it. MapleStory did it like 6 years before Valve, and EA did it with FIFA almost a year before Valve with TF2.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The first FIFA game with lootboxes was 09 which came out in 2009. MapleStory's apparently did predate TF2's; but only by 3 years (2004 vs 2007), and it was only available in the Japanese version of the game.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago

TF2 didn't originally have lootboxes though. They weren't added until the Mann crates in 2010

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Riiiiight.... Man, was it really that far away? It didnt feel like it back then.

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