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Hope Valve loses and something changes. Valve has been getting away with this bullshit for way too long because people like them and therefore give them a pass on all of their shitty behaviour.
It isn't always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements which might be the goal as opposed to banning loot boxes. Then what has people upset about discord wanting face scans or IDs could end up becoming a legal requirement for online gaming accounts that want to play games rated T and higher.
And this age verification thing has been getting pushed throughout the world with attempts at chat control in the EU and what's already happened in the UK.
implement age verification on games with loot boxes. watch sales crash. stop making loot box funded games.
At the expense of everyone's privacy even if you don't participate in the loot box economy, because you know the laws won't be written for only if you access them it'll be a blanket requirement. That's not the way to get rid of loot boxes.
What is the way to get rid of loot boxes?
Straight up ban them. No age gate, no nothing. Just no more loot boxes. It's worse than a fucking casino and those should be banned too.
The line between banning loot boxes and banning games like Balatro is a very fine one, with a need to specify that what is being banned is monetary transactions to access lottery pools.
That kind of accuracy and genuine intent is not what is currently present in lawmaking in most countries.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but I don't think I am.
Well that applies to far more than this subject.
By legislating them to be illegal and then fining developers that don't comply. Sliding scale fines that wipe out the cost benefit of the loot boxes in the first place would suffice.
Don't know. That's not my specialty.
But it's definitely not by compromising everyone's privacy and forcing them to identify themselves because the government wants to be able to identify everyone everywhere at all times and uaing children as the excuse like they always do.