So Bioware is not backing down from the "Grab Bags"

Really.

Well I can say this, I don't believe it it for one second. Only you and Bioware will know for sure though in a few months.

Well I can say this, I don't believe it it for one second. Only you and Bioware will know for sure though in a few months.

This have been said by someone else, either in this thread of one of the others.... for all practical purposes "gambling" in the legal sense (ie: legal enforcement) is generally enforced in two contexts by goverment: 1) to prevent harm to the public (and harm has to be proven, not just alleged) 2) to capture revenue from the enterprise, which is the more common reason for governments to apply statute and enforcement on anything in commerce, be it buying, selling, gambling, whatever. Grab bags as virutal items inside a virtual world do not meet either test in any material sense. Sure, people can apply broad meaning to the term "gambling" to press a bias, a preference, or a moral standard, but unless 1 or 2 above is material.... there is no gambling in the context of statue enforcement. There is however a game of chance in play here... which is what grab bags are, but then again, so is running an instance for boss loot in the game proper.

man it's the same as it always is... people will whine and complain because they can while still using said feature anyway... we see it in this game everyday with the people who have been here since launch and sub every month yet do nothing but say this game is the most horrible abomination ever created and is gonna die at any moment...

as far as the random bags go it will go the same way it did in STO with their lock box fest... the vocal minority will outrage about it while the item continues to sell extremely well... then you will see said person who was claiming lock boxes ruin the game and claiming that he would NEVER be so dumb as to buy one running around in game with a full load of items available only from lock boxes

If you paid money for a virtual grab bag. Got items and then Bioware folded the game I think you deserve every penny you paid for those items.

You can believe whatever you want to believe. What you believe is not my concern. Bioware not making one red cent off me to those grab bags is.

Show me, in this thread...I CHALLENGE YOU...where I say anywhere even remotely close to being "This game is dieing, these lock boxes will be the end of this game...blah blah blah." I challenge you. As far as STO goes...I played that game from beta, all the way until they went free to play. Now, if you can find me in that game anywhere...or have seen me in that game since it went F2P, then I will buy you a grab bag. Good luck with that. Your whole post has been mythbusted.

and that will last until you see someone run by with that uber cool bad *** XXX item you always wanted and you ask where they got it ....

and that will last until you see someone run by with that uber cool bad *** XXX item you always wanted and you ask where they got it ....



no it hasn't... but the whole point and context of it did manage to fly right over your head