Ah, video game controversies. I love watching EA, Ubisoft, WB, Activision-Blizzard, Bethesda Softworks (ZeniMax) and Konami shoot themselves in the foot and then wonder why everyone's so mad. I hate the practices. Even cosmetic lootboxes, if I want to customize my character, I should be allowed. In that regard, I should be able to buy a skin, or pay less for a random skin. But I also hate the idea of getting a skin I already have, because I know there's going to be crap skins you would receive multiple times. The things where you never receive the same thing twice is nice. The option to break things down and build your own is less optimal, but at least it's not a waste

But i've never really been a big fan of microtransactions to begin with. I'm really just okay with legitimate expansions. Once those became "DLC" I started to lose interest. And now I'm outright repelled by these practices and ONLY buy actual expansions, if anything at all. But i'm also not a big fan of digital content in general though so I guess I'm less susceptible

But I love watching EA squirm. I loathe the fact that they're just covering their heads and waiting though. They haven't learned anything legitimate by this. Just how not to show their hand. I imagine they're just waiting for things to blow over rather than actually rethink what they've done. Their business plan is in stone, and anything short of government regulation or mass consumer exodus is going to do jack all to make them change their desires

EA is one of those companies where I just don't trust them and don't want to pay them. Outside of BioWare games, I don't buy anything from them new, if at all.