I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling: GOTY Edition

I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling: GOTY Edition

released on Nov 29, 2017

I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling: GOTY Edition

released on Nov 29, 2017

Do you love opening loot crates, but hate the tedious gameplay sessions in between? Our marketing department has the game for you! Unbox random items! Get stuff, but not what you really want! Skate legal and ethical lines! Remember kids, its only a video game, so grab your parents credit card!


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y'know i have a sneaking suspicion that this game may be gambling...

This is a fun little game that scratches that itch I get when dealing with mobile games, even after I've already completed it and get to restart collecting all over again!

The game is designed as a joke at EA's expense for their implementation of the terrible microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront 2 (not to be confused with the one released in early 2000s), their defence of "protecting cannon" and the spokesman from EA actually visiting the UK Parliament to defend this predatory, skinner-box manipulation that deeply affects those who are neurodivergent, like myself, as "Surprise Mechanics" and claiming that putting these lootboxes into the game was to give players a "Sense of pride and accomplishment" as if you can't feel good about finishing a game unless it's filled with extra, unnecessary grind!

It was extremely bad look as these things were, like what many companies do these days, sneakily implemented AFTER the reviews were all up praising the game. Pretty much the equivalent to having the slot machines work normally when the authorities visit and then as soon as they're gone, mess with the program to cause more losses than normal!

But this itself is just a fun little Gatcha system that's totally free and even makes fun of those systems by naming the first one you get to open and unlock cosmetics for being "Trash" and you can dress up and customise your trash however you want!

Without the controversy, this game wouldn't exist and I love how it's being used to laugh at the terrible excuses that evil companies like to lay out in the hopes that you're as stupid as they think you are.

Straightforward, but a fun little gambling lootbox sim idle clicker thing. I wish it did just a bit more to enhance the fun effects and give that shitty dopamine rush, or had a few more features, but fun to have on to the side to keep refreshing while doing something else, like working.

I seriously can not believe it.

It's mostly a joke, it wasn't meant to be fun.