Asmongold slams gaming microtransactions: \u201cLootboxes should be illegal\u201d AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold explained why he believes \u201clootboxes should be illegal,\u201d and why the government should take more action against microtransactions because of people\u2019s lack of \u201cself-control.\u201d Asmongold is not a fan of pay-to-win mechanics and microtransactions as a whole in MMOs. On March 20, he made a call to all MMO players to band together and stand against microtransactions, \u201cI wish the player bases could get together and say they don\u2019t like this and just kind of shut it down.\u201d Now, he\u2019s expanded on his thoughts on how harmful microtransactions are, and why there should be more laws against them. Asmongold hits out at lootboxes and microtransactions The 30-year old streamer was live on March 24 when he explained why more needs to be done to regulate microtransactions. \u201cI think that it needs to be regulated by the government. Because, here\u2019s why, I don\u2019t believe people will ever be able to exhibit self-control. Gambling has been a way to lose your money for thousands of years, and people are doing it today. Even though there are thousands of years of cases of \u2018Hey, this is bad\u2019, people still do it.\u201d He also said flat-out that, \u201cLootboxes should be illegal.\u201d Time starts at 7:03 for mobile users Asmon also hit out at in-game currency, \u201cI think there should be no currencies allowed in video games that can be converted to real money without actually having the dollar amount shown next to it.\u201d He finished his thoughts by saying, \u201cI find it to be incredibly disingenuous that companies create secondary currencies that are used to obfuscate and muddy the waters interpretation of how much money they\u2019re spending in order to manipulate them to spend more money.\u201d While the OTK streamer has been a huge fan of Lost Ark\u2019s gameplay, he hasn\u2019t loved some of the \u201cpay-to-win\u201d elements in the MMO, and is hopeful new laws can be set in place to protect gamers from \u201cpredatory\u201d practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold slams gaming microtransactions: \u201cLootboxes should be illegal\u201d AsmongoldTwitch star Asmongold explained why he believes \u201clootboxes should be illegal,\u201d and why the government should take more action against microtransactions because of people\u2019s lack of \u201cself-control.\u201d Asmongold is not a fan of pay-to-win mechanics and microtransactions as a whole in MMOs. On March 20, he made […]<\/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-44692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692","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=44692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}