What happens next?

Game subscriptions - Pay a monthly fee under the guise of supporting future patches and additional content. Originally starting as a patreon style system before becoming more and more mandatory.
Subscribers enjoy additional experience, currency, play DLC sooner. Eventually it becomes that patches and DLC are only available to subscribers.

Digital rentals.

How does it feel to be such massive fucking faggots?

I doubt it, subscriptions went the way of the dodo once the last WoW-clone failed (was it Wildstar?).

We already have Steam.

To be fair on them I've lost all interest in modern gaming, it's become stale and nothing but a shameless parasitic cash grab. I didn't get worked up on battlefront 2 because I honestly believe anyone who purchases it deserves what they get.

I'm happy wrapped in a blanket on an old TV, playing some retro games. Even just collecting the systems and games is good enough for me. The sooner you all revert back to the golden age of gaming the sooner you'll learn to enjoy videogames again and not care about modern trash.

There are plenty of interesting industry topics that affect us all that you could discuss. The lootbox shit in particular is only getting so much play because it's "ruining" all of the normalfag games.

They'll try to charge more for the videogames (granted, it's unlikely) or they'll just flat out sell the ancilliary shit like DLC.

Yeah it's not like other cancerous normalfag practices such as microtransactions, DLC and season passes trickled down from normalfag games to games that could have been actually good.

Can you name one?

The yids will start making games that charge players by the hour to play them.

Look at mobage if you want to predict what'll happen next. They basically preempted lootboxes with their gatcha systems.

My money's on "Try to get Software classified as a service again so we can legally delete things from someone else's computer/console"

Video games will go up to $100 bucks a piece, and they will still have microtransactions that are de-randomized to sate the censors but still please the investors.

I hope it does get traction and that the government can be useful for once in their damn lives and rape these jews with an R18+ for jewboxes. Even if they just get them on a technicality like how the box opening operates as do games in casinos.
Speaking of which, I go to the casino often with my mate since he gambles and the lootboxes seriously are just higher quality versions of the free and bonus games of pokies.
What gets me is that a lot of these loot boxes actually do have a monetary return if you get a rare skin like that cs:go shit. That satisfies that one definition of gambling that the EA shills have been spouting with "akshully it's only gambling if you might get monetary compensation". An user in that whale thread mentioned that his mate spent thousand on overcuck and other game lootboxes with the rationalising that he can open them on stream to earn back some of his money. That's about 3 points of seperation from opening box to compensation but still come on.

Games as a service :
Like modern adobe shitware, you can no longer buy it, but have to pay a monthly fee for each game. Everything is in "the cloud" and it'll still have paid DLC & micro transactions.
Also, after not renewing a game's subscription for 3 months, you'll lose everything associated with it (saves as well as any shit you bought for it)
Feel free to screencap this, for it is the future that awaits us, the future you choose.

If jews already thought of a better alternative than shoving lootboxes into shit, it would have already happenend. My bets are on a free loot box/opening system, but you can pay for better chances to get rare items. These "chances" are a course limited. Whales still buy the fuck out of them, and it is not gambling.

Japan went through this shit five years ago with Idolmaster and the compromise was that the developer had to have the draw rates available to the player, so that they know exactly how likely the chance was to get what they wanted. Therefore it's not considered gambling by legal definition.

What are the chances this happens in the west? Do western gambling laws already cover this kind of thing?

Do they even remember how?

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if that's not extremely jewish behavior I don't know what is.

Kek has no allegiance to anything, to us. If you truly cared, you would enjoy the spirit of the chaos, the shitposting and salt, and not care who it affects

I thought cuckchan was where the kekistanis posted. 8pol is full of extremists like me.

If loot boxes dissolve, it will be the first step towards the end of gaming. If loot boxes officially get recognized as a form of gambling, or if microtransactions have such a negative public image that they directly and severely impact sales of games, then major publishers will start to move to find other ways to screw people out of more and more money;

>subscription-based model, where you buy a game for cheap and still have to pay a recurring monthly cost to play World of Warcraft did it, right?
>increased prices for single-player games, up from $60 per title to $80 or $100 After all, games are cheaper than ever after inflation.
>more games, more often, at a cheaper price, with fewer bells and whistles, and likely to be produced episodically, such as The Walking Dead and Life is Strange Because most gamers don't even finish the game and stop after a couple of hours, so why should games even go much longer than that?

No matter what happens, each company will put a ridiculous corporate spin on their bullshit tactics, which will drive down sales when combined with what is undoubtedly going to be even LESS effort put into their games. People will buy less and less into the big AAA titles, eventually driving them out of the industry in favor of smaller titles and fresh companies that actually try to make good games.

I highly doubt the industry is going to hard-crash similar to the Atari crash, considering the barrier to entry into the gaming industry is realistically fighting against nepotism and has nothing to do with the availability of hardware and software. Really, anyone with a few months or years of spare time and some artistic friends can make their own game. The problem solely becomes getting the word out, or getting into a larger, more professional part of the industry; you have to get your foot in the door, and that's more difficult anymore than actually making a game until you get into the ridiculous politics of corporate bullshit involved, but that can quickly become much more of a labor law issue rather than barrier to entry.

Ultimately, small-time developers will make what will likely be bigger AND better in most ways, large corporations will have such a negative name that they will only have two choices: play by the rules or get even more predatory and ultimately die lobby congress to do… something, I don't fucking know, and I doubt it would work

>arguing that regulations should not be applied to predatory business practices that are designed to take advantage of the addictive nature of a select group of individuals because of the honestly natural and reasonable fear that nanny-state restrictions could get out of hand by overreacting, corrupt lawmakers, ultimately destroying a beloved industry corrupted by greedy businessmen who never cared for a second about the products they peddle

If you want money, go write banking code.

user… the government IS jews

They could make good, reasonably priced video games, that people want to buy.

I know you're just baiting but fuck off anyway.

Trump picked them so they're good jews

At this point I'm gonna say no.

And new companies will rise out the ashes, become successful practicing shit people actually like, and eventually they too will be steadily replaced by people who have no fucking clue how they got there as they make the same mistakes.

It's not the end of anything, it's just a fucking cycle you twat.

sauce on first pic?

It did already has. Software its called software as a service. The only difference between a Adobe subscriber and some company with a tailor made office software is, that the Adobe User can't call the dev's office and drive him insane with new tasks.

And done.

Every MMO ever before the gooks came in
What you said is going to happen anyway, because the entire world is using fiat currencies. This is why I corrected it to the old price. In case you ask how I know that: I owned my Sega Genesis since launch and I have bought the vast majority of the games for it second hand just before the prices for them went apeshit. Why? Because we didn't have the fucking money for shoving SEGA 100 benis into its ass each month.
Already happening and failing. Just look!
archive.is/MRIcd
This is about Telltalle games, the inventor of modern episodic gaming. They also weren't that gigantic with their 360 now 270 employees. If you still that this is new, don't look further than the Epic Games portfolio from the 90s. Having no memory at all must be fucking awesome. Don't worry, the next fad for jewing people out of money is just around the corner! Here are some recent ones you forgot:

That's a good point. The reason the industry suffers from a collective Alzheimers epidemic every 15 years or so is the corporate promotion model. There are literal code masters anywhere ever, same goes for sound engineers, graphics people and QA. Usually they stay for a few projects and if they don't, say delete the perforce repository, they get promoted and then replace by the next bunch of college kids. Speaking of; I know from a first hand source that a well known and formerly beloved Studio hires and fires programmers and artists on a project for project basis. These jobs are also often pay only minimum wage so they don't become subject to social insurance fees. Indie games are even worse in this regard, because they are made with tools and according to memes that enable absolute hacks.

Black-on-black crime is black-on-black because whites have abandoned those areas so they don't become victims. I do have a fucking problem with large swaths of our cities being off-limits to civilized people because we refuse to suppress, kill, or expel the barbarians. Same with videogames–entire genres are being destroyed by this shit. There will never be a good MMO again if something isn't done.

No matter how much I despise EA I'll never surrender responsibility over to the state just so that retards can come up with the next big thing that EA will exploit

No and please die for thinking this wrongminded shit then typing it.