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"every video game company" = Epic Games, and mostly because they don't like to pay overhead for their Fortnite loot boxes that most parents wish they could have some control over. I don't have allegiance to either company mostly because they don't care about me, just my money.

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> I don't have allegiance to either company mostly because they don't care about me, just my money.

This criticism is something that is a positive to me. Opposing companies are often dependant on adverting money and the things this leads to are a whole lot worse in my view.

Epic doesn’t do lootboxes, next.

In the spirit of his argument, they do use time-gated content and other methods to psychologically exploit their users into buying things.

They used to? At least Rocket League had them for a long time. Unsure how long after Epic purchased it they had them though.

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