Asmongold responds after Ted Cruz offers to discuss loot boxes in games with him Twitch: Asmongold\/ YouTube: Verdict with Ted CruzTwitch streamer Asmongold shared his thoughts after US Senator Ted Cruz agreed with him that more needs to be done to regulate loot boxes and pay-to-win games, especially regarding younger audiences. The morality of pay-to-win games has been a controversial topic in the streaming community. In particular, over the argument that it could encourage addictions among young players. Streamer Asmongold has openly criticized games such as Lost Ark and Diablo Immortal for their loot box structures. Now, Republican politician Ted Cruz has announced he would be up to discuss the matter with the streamer, much to his delight. Asmongold \u201cexcited\u201d about talks with Ted Cruz On June 21, Asmongold responded to a clip from Cruz\u2019s Verdict podcast with Michael Knowles in which the two discussed pay-to-win games and loot boxes. Asmongold said: \u201cNever in my life did I imagine a US senator would engage in a conversation with me regarding P2W and loot boxes in video games [\u2026] Very excited!\u201d It comes after the streamer approached Cruz who he believed would be on board with the idea of restricting microtransactions and loot boxes in games with the belief it indoctrinates \u201ckids into gambling.\u201d The Twitch streamer has called on fellow MMO players to band together to put a stop to pay-to-win microtransactions in the past. Never in my life did I imagine a US senator would engage in a conversation with me regarding P2W and lootboxes in video games LOL Very excited! https:\/\/t.co\/2g8H5i76p5 \u2014 Zack (@Asmongold) June 21, 2022 Cruz subsequently agreed and said he would be \u201chappy to engage in a conversation\u201d with Asmongold. Saying he believes video games are \u201cdesigned to be addictive,\u201d he admitted to having fallen down the pay-to-win rabbit hole and spent money in-game to progress. However, he added he was approaching the issue with \u201ca pretty strong libertarian stance\u201d and claimed the US government might not have a \u201crole\u201d in preventing in-game microtransactions. It\u2019s not certain how far the streamer and Cruz\u2019s discussion over pay-to-win games will go on for. However, Asmongold clearly isn\u2019t going to give up the fight any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold responds after Ted Cruz offers to discuss loot boxes in games with him Twitch: Asmongold\/ YouTube: Verdict with Ted CruzTwitch streamer Asmongold shared his thoughts after US Senator Ted Cruz agreed with him that more needs to be done to regulate loot boxes and pay-to-win games, especially regarding younger audiences. The morality of pay-to-win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}