In NL and BE opening crates /cases is disabled, because of a lawsuit.
The fun part is that in NL if you are 18+ you are allowed to gamble, online or offline. So I contacted steam a couple years back asking why I could gamle my lifesavings away, but why I am not allowed to spend 2 bucks on a key to open a crate for a virtual item.
So in what law or lawsuit is a lootbox specifically counted as a form of gambling?
The randomly selected virtual items have no in-game functionality
No? The hat I opened cannot be used?
Replace a Microsoft product by a domestic product with the same name as another Microsoft product. It’s kinda funny not gonna lie.
Yeah Andy is an idiot, even worse the post where he (they) doubled down on it
The tweet in kwestion: https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
I don’'t believe in just two party politics. This whole debacle needs to move on. yeah, but I can’t stand people deciding not to go with somebody because they agreed with one statement of a politcal figure (and doubled down).
It also depends a lot on the country of the person whatching and the series taking place.
Always use a custom domain for mail, it’s cheap and most providers (that are good support it).
For those wondering, the Proton CEO (who is a bit limited in power compared to most CEO’s) agreed with a statement from Trump, doubled down on that and was generally stupid about it.
There are tons of others things to leave Proton, like you need to use their client or selfhost their bridge. There is a lack of proper Linux support (their VPN does support Wiregard and Openvpn though). They add features that nobody asked for like Lumoai and the Crypto wallet, but it is included in your subscription so that is good.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Even the worst people on the planet can have some points that people can agree with even if they are “from the political opposite”. Last time I checked the only way to get everybody to agree on political decisions is to make compromises. Not that you can do that with aseholes like Trump, but that’s a different story.
Tf2 hat’s where expensive even back in the day yeah, the fun part is that the economy in that game was studied due to it being a near perfect economy or something.
But back in the day you couldn’t really sell your items for money. You would need to trust somebody to swap it for cash and trust that they actually paid you. Which is a lot more different than it currently it where you can just sell it on the market or to marketplace.tf or other sites like that.
It got way worse once CSGO became a thing due to the game being vastly more populair.
Imo it wouldn’t be a bad thing to bad lootboxes all together, but I do wonder where it stops. Because trading card game boosters while part of the game (you require them for sealed formats) are very similar to lootboxes. Banning those would destroy people playing trading card games. Or at least there is a lot less incentive, especially for Pokemon.