Loot boxes: Games companies agree to restrict access in UK
Loot boxes: Games companies agree to restrict access in UK
The government has spent nearly three years on plans to regulate the use of loot boxes
I hate nothing more than when government regulation, or threat thereof, is a primary factor in how games are designed.
-19Sometimes there's no way around it.
The fact that there's even a single country on the planet that hasn't outright criminalized making it possible for a single kid to buy a single loot box is obscene. It's very obviously gambling and very obviously designed to make kids gambling addicts.
It should be a felony count per child exposed for the CEO.
8What about loot boxes in your games lol, are you seriously concerned about losing those?
7I don't give a damn if they're there or not.
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I would agree if it was about genuine game mechanics or story or things like that. But lootboxes aren't designed for fun. They're designed to exploit vulnerable people for maximum profit, and trick others into giving those vulnerable people an incentive to spend away their life savings on thinly-veiled gambling for virtual prizes.
We have much to gain from lootboxes (at least in their current state) being removed from the equation entirely.
6Maybe if they weren't being so greedy and exploitative that even the fucking Tory government felt the need to reel them in then they'd have been alright. They delved too deep and too greedily and have awoken the balrog. Or, as the kids might say, they fucked around and now are finding out.
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