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No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It's gambling. It's advertised to children.
It doesn't matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.
If we lived in a just world, all loot boxes and other pay-for-random-things would be outlawed completely. It is gambling and it is directed at kids, yet there's zero oversight or regulation the way gambling is regulated everywhere else.
I don't know aboit the new FH6, but I always really liked how Forza Horizon does it. Because it does not cost anything. You just get an endless stream of wheel spins and random drops. There isn't even a way to buy them at all.
You get thst sort of, "Randomized dopamine hit" but its just part of the game.
Vampire Survivors had it, kinda. It was just miniboss drops, random, like a typical hack and slash, but opening a chest looked like a silly slot machine animation jacking straight into my gambler brain (I don't actually gamble - I have many other bad habits but I realized I might be wired dangerously back when I played cards for small sums of money with my classmates as a teenager. So I actively swore off gambling and never fell for it, apart from "fake" gambling in video games, where I'm always reminded of why I shouldn't touch it in real life)
Cloverpit is a roguelike where the gameplay is literally just playing a slot machine