Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes

purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    implement age verification on games with loot boxes. watch sales crash. stop implementing loot box funded games.

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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  • purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, I didn’t think about that. That is kind of a nightmare scenario. I still stand by what I said. Now the question is, do I trust legislation to make a good decision that doesn’t fuck over everyone in the end? And if so, do I trust a multi-billion dollar company to not do some horrendous malicious compliance?

    … and I’m not going to answer these questions. :|

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Another scary thing is Palantir who’d be all for the push for verification with them positioning themselves to make money off of it, and wanting to be responsible for collecting data on everyone. They already turned out to be a partner of Discord through Persona.

      They’ve already pushed for government contracts even in Europe. And with how things look like with the US government how much confidence is there in the US government.

      I’m not sure government involvement will lead to the type of outcome people think it will.

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if they ask everyone for ID. My account is old enough to drink.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What shitty behavior? A new version of Counter Strike? Literally having a platform that sells games and isn’t beholden to shareholders? A platform that isn’t selling our data or purposely made to game more money out of people?

  You click buy, that’s on you. Have an addiction then go get some fucking help and stop blaming everyone else.

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