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Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games

They won’t do it, and here’s why: AAA will lobby for the continuation because it will hurt their bottom line of that gets banned. They love to implement dark patterns galore, and modern games will certainly do that.

Don’t be surprised if this fails, as it will likely be more consumerism, considering the fact that the USD and bond bubble just burst recently.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Loot boxes and microtransactions made me hate playing videogames.

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- Feyd@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying
  
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  - Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah. I think part of it is just that I’ve grown out of them. But part of it is enshittification.
    
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    mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Your tastes may change and you might have changed as a person as you aged but there’s nothing to “grow out of”. Games aren’t inherently childish. Certain ones can be, but games as a whole aren’t
    
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- doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Luckily for you, there’s more games without any loot boxes or micro transactions than you can play in your lifetime.
  
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Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Some European countries have banned them already. Belgium and the Netherlands as an example.

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- SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are still loot boxes in Belgium, they just work differently. You get to see what is inside before you start the transaction, allowing a person to only open the ones with contents they want.
  
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- msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s good news, but will the EU make it law for the entirety of it? I’d say no, but this is for sure promising. Us Americans need to get clocked for our dark pattern usage.
  
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