Red Queen.7915

While the first sentence is factual true, your second sentence makes it sound as if this could happen "by accident" so that people would need to pay attention for it not to happen. As far as I know, this will never happen on a normal Windows machine, as your mouse/keyboard always goes to the active window/application, no matter how many instances of it you have managed to start. I'm not trying to spook the OP, but there are some (admittedly rare) cases where this happens. Never heard it about GW2 (or experienced it, but I never play my accounts at the same time), but I do know that Stardew Valley does this - if you tab out of the game and into a browser, the game still reacts to whatever you do in your browser. Doesn't happen when the browser is open on a second monitor. I have no idea what causes this, I just know that it has caused me to start the day over more times than I care to admit. So, just double check to be sure, I guess is what I'm saying. No-one wants you to get a banhammer to the face because computers are weird.

Yup. I find it rather baffling that the whole lootbox system doesn't have legislation covering it yet, but then I remember that the internet in general is apparently still "Neuland" ("uncharted territory" - yeah, that happened...) and start quietly crying in the corner...

No? The money we pay for the expansion is what pays for the expansion. And the Living World is their way to keep players interested so that they buy the next expansion - an investment that will pay off in the future.This is one of the flimsiest excuses people could possibly make for this stuff. If this were true, we'd get the expansions for free, as well as the base game. But we don't. So no, this doesn't "pay for" anything. You can't realistically assume this is enough money to cover 2 years of server costs, employees, living seasons and all.This isn't wow, there isn't a monthly subscription.That the RNG methods are put in question is fair, but they absolutely need to cash on skins to maintain the game, there's absolutely no doubt about that. Seriously, no. Not a flimsy excuse, just reality.Do you have the math for that? Because until someone can break this down for me in a way that makes sense, I will assume that when I pay for the product, I pay for the product, and not for a vehicle to pay more money for the product in the long run. Which is the point at which you introduce a subscription fee, if you really need that steady monthly income.And if your business model really is "support the game in-between expansions with a cash shop", then make it a shop, and not a glorified casino.

No? The money we pay for the expansion is what pays for the expansion. And the Living World is their way to keep players interested so that they buy the next expansion - an investment that will pay off in the future.This is one of the flimsiest excuses people could possibly make for this stuff. If this were true, we'd get the expansions for free, as well as the base game. But we don't. So no, this doesn't "pay for" anything.

Saw about five skins I'd buy directly. Saw zero skins I will gamble for. I have not so far, and I will not in the future, support lootboxes in any shape or form. For what it's worth, I won't spend another cent on gems as long as this is in the game. BLC was a crappy method of distributing (thankfully only a few) items already, and this is just unbelievable. I hope your whales are worth it, because my money is going to other people in the future.