I think there should be an outright ban for minors as well as making the game 18+. I agree about showing the odds, but knowing the odds doesn't stop people throwing away cash on roulette.
Most people probably don't know/understand the actual odds on roulette bar 'its in the bookies/casinos favour.' Can't see any ban being enforced for under 18s unless they made Ultimate Team locked by age but would be hard to enforced I guess.
Needs to be done really. As an adult I've fell into the trap a few times, so for a kid it's just not really fair. Hope they do away with them altogether, although I expect there to be a workaround.
It would be a huge blow for EA as I think UK generate the most revenue for them via in game micro transactions than any other country.
It’s exactly the same thing though. Think about it. There aren’t many loopholes EA can use as they tried to pull something similar in Belgium if I recall correctly and got swiftly told to stop or else severe consequences would be handed down.
I think they could get around it by making it like other games where you have to pay x amount to buy a new hero etc. They could make it that you could buy Ronaldo for £5 or whatever. As long as all element of chance is removed which is the problem with packs/loot crates etc.
This would be ideal.
Yeah but EA won't make any money doing that.
I know but it’s time for companies to start being responsible, the world is changing. Get ahead of the pack and do something different
https://www.sportbible.com/football...anchise titles,revenue total of $1.37 billion.
EA will be literally the very last gaming developer to change their malign money making practices. They're the scummiest of the lot.
Yeah and your club has a limit on how much you can spend per season, if you win your respective league or get into top 4/promoted your limit goes up for the next season if you spend more than your limit then the EA FFP can exclude you from competitions or free giveaways for a little more time period.
If they can been them in the UK, EA might actually have to work on gameplay, which will be a foreign concept to most of their development team.
It's argued to be an illegal form of. Gambling, because the content of the boxes can be passed on to third parties. There was also quite a bit of noise about it being a form of child gambling.
Which means nothing as they can just buy it on the store, or get their parents to buy it? (which they will be doing anyway if they're under 18)
It’s a start, Adam. It’s a start.
Hopefully it means less servers in Germany too.
Probably not very smart, it just means people will take age ratings less seriously in future.
Nobody has ever taken them seriously. Just look at the crazy amount GTA makes from online and most the people playing are kids. I was playing GTA 3, when I was about 9.
