As for video game publishers, they should ease up on the loot box systems because things like this might happen to it own customers. RetroFlow-Launcher is a nice little GUI for browsing and launching your Retro games on the PS Vita. Hopefully this person is able to find a counselor of some sort so he can overcome this additive behavior. Developer jimbob4000 has updated RetroFlow-Launcher for the PS Vita to version 3.4. It’s this type of situation that people are fearing might influence the newer generation of gaming that thinks “loot box economies” are the norm in the video game industry.Īddiction is real and people that suffer from it cannot easily “tell their brain” to stop. He has to pay back money he borrowed from his father and he’s scared he might lose his girlfriend too because he never told her about his addiction until just recently. He had to tell his girlfriend and his father about his current financial situation and things aren’t looking good for him right now. By the end of 2016, he found himself in £8000 in debt. To cut a long story short, his addiction to the game started on Xbox 360 but he continued on once he bought himself an Xbox One. This is where I got myself a credit card (worst decision of my life), and got into Payday loans and asking for advances every month. Then as soon as my apprenticeship finished and I was put onto a more standard wage of about £800, I was spending roughly £500 monthly on the game.
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I’ve been addicted to spending my money on FIFA Ultimate Team ever since I had a job when I was 18, I would get my salary and as an Admin Apprentice (About £400 a month Full Time) and after my board and bus fare, spend the rest of FIFA, about £150 a month. In this first part of his story he said: “ I’m a 25m from the UK. Despite some publishers saying it’s not a form of ‘gambling’ a braver user on Reddit shares his sad side of the story on how one simple game feature ruined his entire life. They're no longer in production, so at some point Sony has to stop working on those past-gen consoles and concentrate on current-gen hardware and games.Loot boxes and other microtransaction features that have random gifts are becoming a very controversial new feature in modern video games. Unfortunately, the reason Sony is ending support for the consoles is they have run their course. Related: The New Nintendo Switch: Improvements We Expect to See Plus, it would have to beat the unstoppable Nintendo Switch. It has been putting all of its energy into revealing details about the next generation PSVR. Sony currently has no plans (that we know of) for a new handheld device.
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While it might be a shame to owners of the consoles, at least you have plenty of opportunity to pick up a PS4 at a reasonable price, now the PS5 is out (albeit in limited quantities). So, given the age of the three consoles, it comes as no surprise that Sony is ending support.
Then the Vita arrived in 2011, and nobody (well, little over 10 million people) bought it.
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The PS3 came along in 2006 to the same fanfare as the PSP. Sony released the PSP in 2005, over 15 years ago it proved to be a popular device. While these consoles all still have a user base, we have seen an entire gaming generation since their release two generations for the PSP, given that Sony released the PS3 a year after its first handheld console.