I mostly agree with what you say here. Although (at the risk of defending NRS again) I think when NRS said "there are absolutely no lootboxes" they meant pay-for-lootboxes -- which there aren't. You get in game gold and then you spend it on in game lootboxes. You never have the option of buying them with real cash. Whether that's a substantial difference from paid lootboxes or not, and thus misleading or not, will probably come down to the individual player. I don't personally mind it. But I also understand why you might.
I wish I could say you're right, but there's already been precedent for this thought and it's part of what scared EA into stopping what they did with Battlefront 2.
If this game was just like MKX people wouldn’t be complaining. The grind in this game is nothing like MKX. You could earn enough Koins in one arcade tower to unlock a boatload of chests in MKX krypt. You get enough Koins in MK 11 doing the same thing to maybe unlock 1 or 2 chests, and that’s not even accounting for hearts and soul fragments, not to mention at least you could focus on what you wanted in MKX, you can’t do that in MK11.
I disagree. I paid $100 for my game, and I don't have access to the full content. It's locked behind a wall of unfairly slowly gained in-game currency which is supported by the "you can always buy more with real money" temptation. You don't HAVE to spend money but here's something you REALLY want, but you can't get it unless you play for HOURS and do some unreasonably difficult things to get one piece of gear that only changes how you look. Or, you can BUY your CHANCE to get it nice and easy!!!
I know right
NRS: "If you have a job, you'll probably miss your chance to even buy the skin you want, let alone dump hundreds of hours into the game to unlock it."
The difference is the grind was not bad at all in MKX. You could do a tower or two (not even the crazy ones with modifiers) and earn enough currency to go to the Krypt and get a couple skins/Brutalities that you actually WANT. Have you actually played MK11 yet and tried to unlock something you WANT? Aside from the character tutorials, it's all random AND overpriced.
I guess yea when you look at it this way. That is quite frustrating. Hopefully their fix will resolve some of these issues
No, but it does care about promoting gambling to minors and promoting online gambling in states where it's illegal.
It's not just impatient gamers who will get groped in by a system designed to train you to spend money, don't forget the young impressionable kids who will max out their mom's credit card or the people with mental health issues and gambling problems.
I actually did just mention people with gambling problems, because I think it does scratch that addictive itch. That said, it's a stretch at best to say it's gambling for minors. If I buy a game, and that game has a poker mini game for in game currency, is that game promoting gambling? Obviously not. It's just a scummy practice to have people buy in game currency for this sort of thing.
There is no online gambling in MK11. There's also no promotion of gambling.
There's no precedent in the USA and you are referring to cases specifically with lootboxes. From what I understand, the only thing you can buy is time crystals which can buy you skins on the store, which doesn't resemble paying for RNG lootboxes at all.
Unfortunately, we were led to believe that the krypt was lootbox based. We were all wrong, and it has been explained. I'm more than satisfied with their answer, so there is no need to worry about lootboxes and or legal action anymore.
