Aiyah, the gaming industry especially the AAA genre already get destroyed by the whole gambling system liao, resistance ish futile no matter how much backlash from prayers, cause many who supported such system are not real or hardcore prayers in the first place.
Beside moi believe EA ish just temporary retreat nia to siam the current $hit storm. Once the weather ish clear again they will be back with even more aggressive and greedy lootbox system to milk everyone dry dry.
The only thing that may stop this kind of trend ish when society and various govt finally start to step in and regulate the gaming industry as if it's a casino, but seriously this ish bad not for just for those greedy companies but also to us the prayers too. Cause just like censorships, no prayers would want to see more regulations and govt intervention on their games.
Cause if those politicians finally sick of taking bribes from these big prayers and start to treat this as a normal form of gambling as it should be (seriously lootbox and gacha are just another point of gambling, all those bull$hit talk about how it always reward gambler with something or having crazy grinds as alternatives etc so not real gambling ish just praying with word games and loopholes to pray existing regulation and governance, but in the core it really ish a form of gambling), then this will make a lot of games ganna banned and region locked, after all even in AMDK countries when gambling ish concerned it ish even more difficult to release a gambling game than releasing a R18 game. Ie a lot of us here won't have easy access to these lootbox or gacha games liao.