I want someone, somewhere, somehow to end a corrupt practice that is fostering a culture of gambling

Listen to yourself The United -blam!-ing Nations The practice itself isn’t even that harmful, why the -blam!- would the United Nations drop global issues to deal with one stupid ass video game company.

Because bungie is a big fish in a pond of many deceptive fish. If the security council actually managed to issue some sort of warning, real change would possible. Are children would have brighter futures.

Actually...the practice IS that harmful according to recent studies in the UK.

Source me baby Unless Eververse engraved a message in your head that you simply MUST buy from it, I will never believe cosmetic lootboxes are a harmful practice. Self Control, it exists.

I am not your baby. Act like an actual intelligent and capable human being, instead of perpetuating the loony persona you have cultivated here so far, and Google it yourself. While you can prance around in your moral ivory tower whining about concepts like self control you might actually want to wake up to reality, use your brain, and start to understand that kids play these games... Now....what, amongst others, separates kids from actual adults (so...I forgive you for not knowing this yet seeing as you have never ever reached that stage) is that their brain is not yet fully developed (something which happens after puberty) and because of that they have poor risk assessment skills and low impulse control as a result. Aside from that the lootbox and mtx economies in games affect the games themselves since the mechanics are adjusted to maximize the buying potential. This means, ao, that your progression and reward systems are not what they should be and are purposefully throttled so people will need to spend more. Even if you do not buy mtx they still affect you. But even the "I am not buying them so it doesn't involve me" argument falls flat when we talk about premium games. Because you DID buy them. Your money paid for the development of the infrastructure, the development of the game icons, the game mechanics and the content that goes in them. They just want you to pay more to access them. So while you are prancing around in your unbridled and vey much unfounded arrogance and air if moral superiority....you are in fact making one stupid statement after another to justify your own little fantasy reality bubble.