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This is good and long overdue, hopefully we can come up with something effective unlike the regulations in China/Korea which are skirted by publishers gifting t
by lsmarigo 9y ago
This is good and long overdue, hopefully we can come up with something effective unlike the regulations in China/Korea which are skirted by publishers gifting the loot boxes with other purchases instead of outright selling them.
The amount of money at play here is no joke, Activision/Blizzard alone earns $13.4m daily revenue (2017) on just in-game microtransactions. They've even re-organized their financial results to downplay the dominance of microtransaction loot box revenue if you compare 2016 to 2017.
http://investor.activision.com/results.cfm http://investor.activision.com/results.cfm
Should be framed as an extension of existing laws regarding child gambling.