Review aggregator OpenCritic will now label games with loot box mechanics, it today confirmed.
After a pledge to do back in October 2017, the site is now ready to roll out said labels.
“While it’s taken us a little while to actually implement these changes,” the site admitted, “we’re proud to announce that we’ve finally introduced this new label.
“Games that use “loot box” mechanics now have a prominent notification.”
The site’s statement continues to say that the “OpenCritic team believes that loot boxes are a net-negative for the video game industry. Loot boxes prey on human’s generally poor ability to accurately understand and internalize probabilities, especially at the extremes. Rather than offer in-game items directly, loot boxes are used to mask the underlying cost of extremely attractive items.”
You can read OpenCritic’s full statement here. Already, games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, FIFA 19, NBA 2K19, Injustice 2 and Overwatch have been flagged as possessing loot boxes.
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