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New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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The lawsuit aims to "stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws."

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[–] crazyduck@lemmy.zip 1 point 6 months ago

They changed the loot boxes in e.g. dota2 to always show what's in them, the argument being that you're no longer gambling then since you see what you buy. This of course conveniently ignores the fact that the gambling aspect just moved to the lootbox you buy after the one you see

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