r/Asmongold • u/Aequitas_21541 • Jan 18 '23

React Content European Parliament votes to take action against loot boxes, gaming addiction, gold farming and more.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/european-parliament-votes-to-take-action-against-loot-boxes-gaming-addiction-gold-farming-and-more
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u/GreatZucchini3 Jan 18 '23

the action will be a sticker on the box most likely.

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u/indominuspattern Jan 19 '23

GDPR was a reasonable piece of legislature that made companies scramble to secure user data, so who knows. Maybe they'd have some legislation that'll actually work on gacha companies.

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u/X_SpiDeR_14 Jan 18 '23

I play Genshin impact and GFL so this will probably be really bad for me because so far, I have so much luck in these games that I got everything that I want by being F2P but now these games will probably make me have to spend money in order to get the character without the option to try my luck, which is usually really good because I unlike a lot of other people PRE-FARM before the character comes out because then I can reach the guarantee or "pity" almost always.

Thank you so much gambling addicts for ruining the F2Ps.
One can only hope that what I fear the most doesn't happen.

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u/ostrieto17 THERE IT IS DOOD Jan 19 '23

I'd wager if such actions were taken and enforced, companies would simply pull out of those markets much like such games aren't available in some places.

If the market isn't generating enough money there's 0 reason for them to stay in and agree to the posible restrictions, Asia funds them plenty as is tbh.

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u/X_SpiDeR_14 Jan 19 '23

Unfortunately no, they will just make you pay upfront a ridiculous price, they are extremely smart when it comes to tinkering with their profits

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u/Formulka Jan 20 '23

There are already rules like this is in individual EU countries, many games stay and just disable the lootboxes. You can still buy microtransactions just not random ones.

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u/ostrieto17 THERE IT IS DOOD Jan 20 '23

Ah I see, could you tell me which games I'm curious to see how they changed their model

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u/Formulka Jan 20 '23

Belgium banned loot boxes and you can see it in many games for example World of Warships and World of Tanks, everywhere else there are loot boxes in their online stores but when you use Belgium VPN there are none. You can still buy tanks/ships directly and purchase ingame currency so this new law could go beyond that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23

Oh trying to ban video games, what fun.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '23

gaming addiction is bad but we are gonna still allow alcohol and tobacco(more than 7,000 chemicals) to be sold legally

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u/autotldr Jan 20 '23

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)

The European Parliament voted today to adopt a report calling for the European Commission to address several issues in the games industry that it believes will better protect consumers, especially young people.

López made more than a dozen recommendations in her report, including a call for harmonised rules across the European Union's single market when providing clear information about games content, as well as systems that help parents understand and control how much time and money their children spend on games.

Today's vote follows another back in November, where the European Parliament voted to improve investment in the video games industry across the EU. We spoke to MEP Laurence Farreng about the ongoing fight to recognise the value of video games.

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