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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get no advantage from the battle passes in Street Fighter 6 either, but they're still designed in such a way to keep you chasing the rewards. It can be scummy without being pay to win. But again, I don't know what hooks CS2 has. Last I played CS:GO was when it was $15 and had no microtransactions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But because they have no impact on the gameplay, the onus is entirely on the player whether they want it or not. At this point you're basically saying that they made the battlepasses and lootboxes interesting and therefore they're bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, I'm saying I've seen people who keep playing games with this kind of battle pass, loot box, or other reward system when they clearly stopped enjoying the game, the same way any addict keeps doing something they know is harmful to themselves. Systems like these (and again, I have no idea what kind CS2 implements, but it's a modern online live service game, so it's probably in the ballpark) just want you to be a body in the online queue so that other players have someone to play with, and they chase that goal through nefarious means.

But because they have no impact on the gameplay, the onus is entirely on the player whether they want it or not

Does a problem gambler keep gambling because they want to, or because they can't will themselves to stop?