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Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve (help.steampowered.com)
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Official statement from Valve.

We shared with the NYAG that these types of boxes in our games are widely used, not just in video games but in the tangible world as well, where generations have grown up opening baseball card packs and blind boxes and bags, and then trading and selling the items they receive.

You're right! We should stop that too!

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

The TF2 loot crates were the worst, but you could get around them for crafting except for visuals. What's crazy to me is that people are getting mad over visuals in loot boxes and that the gambling is largely over that. I don't think you can put all the shit leading up to that to one company, yet bureaucrats persistently try to do it to avoid acknowledging their own dismal efforts to get their feet wet in implementing some basic legislation on the matter.

Before it used to be Asian MMOs that basically targeted people with addictive personalities with paid for RNG boosts that gave actual in-game advantages (and they will still exist, because they are not loot boxes, just dice rolls), now people are getting this invested over skins and 3D models. We need to address the core of the problem, because the same people falling for this bullshit are also the ones who fall for populist reactionary political bullshit pushing scammers onto our governments. Education and our social nets are clearly failing, and going after one of the better companies that's guilty of this is not going to do anything when the problem is literally coming from the highest tiers of government as they rush to get their friends and family invested in predatory ventures. It's sort of like living in Nazi Germany and thinking the most important thing to complain about is whether businesses forced to be sold are really getting their money's worth instead of being forced to sell to whomever can buy them up the soonest.