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

djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 hour ago

Killing a boss in WoW isn’t gambling because you don’t need to pay anything to do so. With CS, unless something has dramatically changed since I last played, when you get a box you need to typically buy a key to open it and get the item.

If you just got a random skin after a match, it would not be gambling. The value of the item received, or resellability of the item, doesn’t really matter here as much as whether or not there’s an entry fee.