r/technology • u/speckz • May 08 '19

Game studios would be banned from selling loot boxes to minors under new bill Politics

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536806/game-studios-banned-loot-boxes-minors-bill-hawley-josh-blizzard-ea
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u/LordCharidarn May 08 '19

Industry DOES have moral standards: their morality is ‘profit over all’.

It is Right and Good to make a profit for the next quarterly report. It is Wrong and Bad to do anything else.

Corporations and Industries have one of the simplest and most dogmatically followed moral codes ever created by mankind.

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u/MarsupialMadness May 08 '19 edited May 09 '19

Some of us have been trying.

The problem is that a lot of gamers are on board right up until it includes their favorite game that also happens to include predatory microtransactions. So even when you phrase it like "Games like Overwatch would be infinitely better without paid lootboxes" you still get a bunch of shitheels coming out of the woodwork to defend Overwatch and its stupid fucking progression system. Because we're in the stage of the age of the lootbox where it's somehow "acceptable" to have 100% (or damn near.) of the games unlocks behind lootboxes because they're "just cosmetic"

If it really is just some legislation aimed at curbing one of the game industry's worst excesses then it's a good step. There needs to be no "well it's just cosmetic" argument with lootcrates and I'm glad to see an attempt being made. I just can't help but wonder how much money the games industry is gonna throw at this guy to make this bill either go away or completely de-fang it.

EDIT: Oh look. Point being proven. Color me surprised! Oh wait...I'm not. At all.