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"Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not (www.thegamer.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd say that creating the lootbox system that plagues modern games was Valve's biggest blunder, personally.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't want to excuse Valve's involvement as they definitely shouldn't have joined on the wagon, but Valve jumped on an already existing wagon, they didn't create it. MapleStory did it like 6 years before Valve, and EA did it with FIFA almost a year before Valve with TF2.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The first FIFA game with lootboxes was 09 which came out in 2009. MapleStory's apparently did predate TF2's; but only by 3 years (2004 vs 2007), and it was only available in the Japanese version of the game.

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