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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 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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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They should sue Epic Games because Fortnite greatly popularized loot boxes and Microtransactions. Also other games which are the real culprit such as Overwatch, League of Legends, and more. Though granted Valve did make CSGO which was one of the first big games to popularize buying and selling video game skins. But of course lots of other games do it much worse like Gatcha games and mobile games.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can start with the OG loot boxes of Magic the Gathering amd Pokemon? So much gambling & its targeted at children.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The fun part is that a lot of trading cards have their roots in the early movements for cigarettes. Same idea for the most part, except it was typical for pinups instead of monsters or magic. You bought tobacco to get the cards, so tobacco became popular amongst kids. If you wanted to collect em all, you would buy more boxes of cigarettes, so imo it's even more of a parallel than just calling out TCGs

    The fact that the idea swapped to hooking kids on gambling is honestly a no brainer, especially since the cards were the things helping sell the cigs anyhow.

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