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Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Ok, I had no idea they were the first to do that lootbox shite, I'm not into multiplayer games. That could be considered worse than allowing third party DRMs, since it pretty much introduced kids to gambling.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm not sure that's true - I'm pretty sure it comes from Japanese and other Asian games like Maple Story, then it got picked up by mobile games companies as they were figuring out monetization there, especially Zynga.

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