Quoting: katp32I wish more games had cosmetic crates that were just awarded randomly rather than being a form of monetization, because apart from the bit where it empties your wallet, they are a fun mechanic in my opinion.

I would welcome some hybrid between random and monetization. I'm not against paying for cosmetics, but not if you don't know what you get. Let the crates still drop, but without the need to buy a key. Instead let them buy exact cosmetic they want with the money and random cosmetics from crates.

But then people will not spend that much as it is now, because if you want some concrete item with loot boxes mechanic, you need to play with math. It is the same mechanic as any grind in games. You have some percentage to drop it and you need some number of crates to actually get it.

For example let's say there is rare item that player wants with drop chance 5%. For simplicity let's say that one crate is dropped after each round. One round of the game takes 30 mins. One key is sold for 2$.

You need to play 20 games to drop 20 crates, which should be enough to get the item (if you have enough luck). This will take you 10 hours spent in game and paying 40$ for keys.

If the item will be in store for 40$ nobody would buy it, but plenty of people will pay 40$ for keys to get it without realizing that they paid that much.

If the item would be in store for 10$, there will be probably plenty of people who would buy it, but it will be much less profit for the company and as a bonus the people will spend more time in game, which is good for bigger player base.

This mechanic is something that shouldn't even exist in honest business, as I said before it's manipulation technique forcing people to spend more.

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I'm usually selling all the loot boxes I drop in whatever game or ignoring them if you can't sell them. The loot boxes are just plain hazard mechanic (manipulation technique). It's sad that this mechanic is actually profitable.

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OpenXR is amazing project, it's great to see it adopted by big company like Valve.

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It's always nice to see when OS engine is maturing :-)

BTW the openXcom engine is for UFO: Enemy Unknown(1994) not XCOM: Enemy Unknown(2012). But it would be awesome to see open engine for something like the new XCOM.

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This is great news. I was watching the OpenXR for some time, but to finally see it adopted by Valve just makes me happy. :-)

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I just saw what happened with the IDSoftware (they always were linux and open source friendly), so I'm a bit wary about this.

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I'm happy about seeing the Wasteland 3 to have Linux support, but I'm sad that this will be probably last inXile game with it. It's another loss for Linux gaming community.

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Quoting: Zlopez

Quoting: kuhpunktYes, it doesn't matter what gender etc. you are - but for many people it still matters. Way too many. How do you not get that?

So to fight against this injustice you start creating movements and organizations that are only for some people based on the color, gender, sexual orientation to make the difference even greater?

You mean, if you have an inequality you need to conserve it rather than creating a counterweight? how does that add up?

Anyhow, a "pride month" is not exclusive. How is anything that says "please do not discriminate against people that are different" actually creating a divide?

I'm just trying to say that pointing on the difference is not a good way to remove it from society. It's the opposite. I'm not saying it's bad to be proud who you are, but I don't think anybody needs special month to prove this.

I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just seeing all the movies being removed because they are racist. The history being rewritten the same way as in Orwell's 1984. Instead of trying to remove the differences we are trying to point at them more and more.

It's not about the gender, it's not about anything that makes as different. What counts is what joins us together.

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Quoting: kuhpunktYes, it doesn't matter what gender etc. you are - but for many people it still matters. Way too many. How do you not get that?

So to fight against this injustice you start creating movements and organizations that are only for some people based on the color, gender, sexual orientation to make the difference even greater?

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: Zlopez

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: ZlopezIt's nice when everybody is talking about diversity and equality and the pride month is only for LGBTQIA+. I just find this funny :-D

What's funny about this? This isn't only for LGBT...

So if I am white heterosexual I can celebrate the pride month?

What's next? All Lives Matter?

My favourite movement is: "Be kind to each other"

It doesn't matter what gender you have, what is your religion or what color you are

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