This isn't exactly a rant, but this post is about a trend I'm not too happy about. Apologies to regular readers for the shift from my usual tone. More cheerful posting to resume as of my next one.Way back in December Star Trek Online experimented with a lottery system where players could buy red gift boxes from the item shop, and each box had a really small chance of containing a very nice star
Coming soon to an MMO near you: gambling via treasure boxes 
Posted by Yeebo Fernbottom's MMO Love In![[HTML]](images/html.gif "Visit Website")
![[XML]](images/xml.gif "Syndication Feed")
![[PERM]](images/perm.gif "Permalink")
![[FULL]](images/full.gif "See all articles from this feed")
on 17 February 2012, 8:36 pm
Posted by Yeebo Fernbottom's MMO Love In
on 17 February 2012, 8:36 pm
Show: [ALL] [NEWS] [BLOGS] [PODCASTS]
| Updated Today: | |||
| MikeJL Blog |
| ||
| A Casual Stroll to Modor |
| ||
| A Ding World |
| ||
| Bethesda Blog |
| ||
| Bio Break |
| ||
| Blessing of Kings |
| ||
| DDOcast |
| ||
| DocHoliday's MMO Saloon |
| ||
| Game Truth |
| ||
| Gamers with Jobs |
| ||
| Joystiq MMO |
| ||
| Kill Ten Rats |
| ||
| Lineage II |
| ||
| Massively |
| ||
| MMO Melting Pot |
| ||
| Psychochild's Blog |
| ||
| Raph Koster |
| ||
| The Ancient Gaming Noob |
| ||
| The Escapist |
| ||
| The Instance |
| ||
| The Old Republic News from Bioware |
| ||
| WarCry Network |
| ||
| Write the Game |
| ||
| Updated this Week: | |||
| A Casual Stroll to Modor Podcast |
| ||
| Ardwulf's Lair |
| ||
| Bioware TOR Dev Blog |
| ||
| Elder game |
| ||
| Heartless Gamer |
| ||
| Lost In The Grind |
| ||
| Low Elo |
| ||
| MMO Gamer Chick |
| ||
| MmoQuests.com |
| ||
| MMORPG.COM News |
| ||
| No Prisoners, No Mercy |
| ||
| Ogrebear's Thoughts |
| ||
| Player Versus Developer |
| ||
| Tobold |
| ||
| Troll Racials are Overpowered |
| ||
| Welshtroll |
| ||
| Wondrous Inventions |
| ||
| World of Warcast |
| ||
| Updated this Month: | |||
| Blue Kae |
| ||
| Broken Toys |
| ||
| GWJ Conference Call |
| ||
| mmocam! |
| ||
| MMOverdose |
| ||
| Morphisat's Blog |
| ||
| Serial Ganker |
| ||
| Star Wars: The Blog Republic |
| ||
| Sweet Flag |
| ||
| Terra Nova |
| ||