Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Amie has thrown his two cents into the loot box debate, and says the polarizing monetization model has “gotten a bit of a bad rap.”<\/p>\n
Speaking to Bloomberg<\/a>, Fils-Amie claims the model isn’t an inherently poor mechanic, but has simply been misused by some companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe game mechanic of buying something that you\u2019re not sure what\u2019s inside is as old as baseball cards,” he commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n “What we believe at Nintendo is that a gameplay mechanic that offers the consumer something to buy that they\u2019re not sure what\u2019s inside can be interesting as long as that\u2019s not the only way you can get those items.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And that’s where some developers have made some mistakes. For us, its one of many mechanics we can use to drive on-going engagement in the game.”<\/p>\n Of course, there’ll likely be plenty of people who disagree with the Nintendo exec, particularly those who felt stung by the\u00a0implementation of the model in titles like Star Wars\u00a0Battlefront II<\/em>, which sparked the great loot box debate<\/a> when it launched back in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since then, officials and regulators from around the world have weighed in, with some even suggesting some forms of\u00a0loot boxes should be prohibited<\/a> or even banned outright<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Amie has thrown his two cents into the loot box debate, and says the polarizing monetization model has “gotten a bit of a bad rap.” Speaking to Bloomberg, Fils-Amie claims the model isn’t an inherently poor mechanic, but has simply been misused by some companies.\u00a0 \u201cThe game mechanic of buying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}