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Strongboxes and our dailies might soon be removed due to future laws.
Toughts?
Toughts?
Move out of china!Toughts?
I would argue they are two of the least important. In light of keys being gated behind an external paywall, the mechanic could be seen as a conceptually problematic cash grab which fails to respect the much more foundational principle of each Entropian having the right to structure their own time-investment/monetary-investment trade-offs in executing their strategies and striving for their goals. An honest supply of key blueprints might help reduce this concern, but MindArk seems to have abandoned them altogether. The mission thing would require a much longer explanation, but it can be observed that Entropia existed and thrived over many years before either boxes or missions. Entropians are not, as a matter of essence, so myopic and mired in fixed-mindsets that they fail to engage with the universe absent a perpetual stream of instant gratification. Rather, the perpetual streams of instant gratification arising from a few structural issues in modern Entropia constitute circumstances in which Entropians sometimes fail to engage with the more important, long-term aspects of the Entropia experience which are enjoyed by means of innovation and growth-mindset.those 2 are of the most important game aspects entropia has....and swede law also prohibits strongboxes buying....aslong the european unions makes it a generell law....we are on the safe side (for now).
The day all is forbidden....thats the day of the down spiral (hope it never comes)
Eddie
Its simple.its amazing to me how the strongboxes in this game can/could be banned by any country... 1usd for 1usd in game...its a depo with the opportunity to get mu...
If there was a chance you open a box and get no loot, then it could have been considered as gambling...
But as it is, you always get 10 PED loot minimum, so it's not...
What you do with the 10 PED after... that's another discussion
how does Swedish players loot rings then ? Same way rest of EU wouldyes thats exactly one of the points....tell that the swedish goverment for example...they banned box buying in sweden bec they throow all boy buyings form all games into the same pot...
Entropia Universe - Strongbox announcement
On the first of January 2019 a new Swedish law which affects lootbox systems that is used in many computer, mobile, and console games will go into effwww.entropiauniverse.com
and if the eu thinks the same one day......well thats it then :-(((
gambling means theres risk...not only that u have a chance for more...Its simple.
One strongbox = 10PED.
One strongbox MAY contain items valued MORE than 10PED, then making it into a form of gamble sence you cant predict what items you get. Its a game of chance and thats what the future laws are aiming for and im saying Mindark should prepare, sence its a core part of the game.
You even say it yourself, you have an oppertunity to earn more. Just the same as a gambling site would offer.
This isn't even a given, in the long-run. The assumption here seems to be that MindArk's revenue can be expressed as a sum of independent "to cycle or not to cycle" decisions over all players and time, but such decisions are actually highly dependent over both dimensions. If a player deposits into tradeable ammo and buys an item instead of cycling it, there is a nonzero (probably pretty high) chance the item seller (or some other player after it further trades hands) will cycle it instead. Players also have budgetary constraints; if a player cycles now because they can't sell their ammo, they may cut back on their cycling later to compensate.I wonder if it would make any difference legally if they instead replaced the UA reward with tradable ammo. MA would take a hit financially from less engagement with the loot system