Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As long as parents don’t give a fuck, this won’t change much.

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Furthermore, this only theoretically protects kid, but fuck people with grambling addictions i guess…

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    • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

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    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      addictions i guess…

      Adults are generally on their own, and they should know that. Now I know 3 different gambling spots just here, and I could be betting on horses, football, sport, things, things that move. Drop a lot of money into the slot machine monster known as VLT, the one where there is no direct limit as to how much I can bet. It’s a damn maze but once you make it to the second layer you pass from the sport betting to the slot machine hellscape, entirey shrouded in darkness, and only lit up by these screens. These sounds are nauseating, to the core. If you, an adult, fall into that, nobody cares about you, really. Gaming addiction might be the same thing.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Kids won’t be able to play without stealing their parents ID or pointing a camera at a low res model in a web browser

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• mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.

  Since when is that something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Money

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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This won’t affect Germany I think. We use the cursed USK bullshit…

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Germany has enacted similar measures before the PEGI implemented theirs.

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AFAIK the USK only gives them a 12+ rating, not 16

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  wasnt the idea to completely ban loot boxes and real money gambling like that?

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• Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is nonsensical. All this is doing is taking agency away from parents.

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  • Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t see how that would be the case.

    PEGI is used as a way of informing buyers (parents) about the contents of the game.

    It doesn’t prohibit them from allowing their kids to play, say, an R-18 game. The agency’s still there. It’s not like a mandatory age verification where your kids are disallowed from using the service completely even when you yourself allow them to.

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    • Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fair enough, I may have misunderstood.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Does this include ever mob in an RPG that drops random loot? Like all of World of Warcraft?

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Paid random items”.

    I’ve played many RPGs. I don’t remember one making me pay for every random battle. No, using a random number gemerator in a game isn’t the same as lootboxes.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What about lootboxes you can optionally pay for, but the game constantly gives you free currency for it? Like, you can buy more currency, and one of the ways you can spend that currency is lootboxes, but you also get free currency that can be used on the same thing?

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good

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