I don’t care if they exist, but you’d have to make it an 18 an over type of deal. I don’t really care how adults choose to blow their money, gambling included. You want to verify you’re over 18 so you can get loot boxes, you do you.
Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I love Valve, but I don’t think this one is going away and I don’t think it SHOULD go away. F2P games with RNG loot boxes are a scourge and I don’t play games that have them for that very reason.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It shouldn’t go away. It should extend to all of the big players using gambling and addictive conditioning in video games starting with EA and Microsoft.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But you don’t start 20 lawsuits for the same thing at the same time against everybody. You start with one case against one company, and if it rules in your favor, that sets stronger precedent to go after the others.
As for why Valve, I’m guessing it’s easier to demonstrate more specific examples of harm when you have a larger pool of consumers to draw from, and easier to get an American entity in an American courtroom.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Valve is also doing this themselves and supporting others in doing it. If it is so ruled serving Valve a cease and desist to stop their own illegal gambling and an injunction to not give it a platform is something completely else from suing any other company.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 day ago
It’s about targeting the ones you can legally target. I’m not going to get into it again but Valve does their lootboxes differently to almost every other big developer/publisher and that way of doing things has gotten them in trouble. Should all companies that in practice are gambling get into legal trouble? Yes. Should Valve get a pass because others get away scot-free? No. If 6 people rape someone but legally there’s evidence to convict one of them you don’t give that one person a free pass because the other 5 can’t be convicted.
In this case there’s one company, Valve, where you have some legal basis to get them in the court and there’s no legal basis for other companies even though they’re largely doing the same thing. You may not like it and might consider it unfair but that’s just how the legal system works.