New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve

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GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 6 hours ago

New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 5 hours ago

No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It’s gambling. It’s advertised to children.

It doesn’t matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.

Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net · 5 hours ago

If we lived in a just world, all loot boxes and other pay-for-random-things would be outlawed completely. It is gambling and it is directed at kids, yet there’s zero oversight or regulation the way gambling is regulated everywhere else.