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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The fact that California decided to sue Valve for Counterstrike and not sue EA for FIFA is just blatant targeted harassment. Valve's right for pointing out that any precedent set here would make Pokemon cards and Baseball cards illegal, both of which are actually advertised directly to kids.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

valve has a way to transfer money in your steam wallet into something with real world value: hardware.

you can not trade pokemon cards with nintendo for game cartridges or money, that is the whole distinction, no secondary market required.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is that different from any promotion like "find the golden ticket and earn an iphone"?

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The "No purchase required" part. In all cases of promotions like these you, if read the fine print you can simply write to the company and they send you a ticket for free.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No. I mean when the cap of a bottle of coke has prices or find the golden cookie and win a trip to NY. Those have a purchase required, and you can't write to the company and get the to send you the price token for you ro exchange it for the price.

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 points 41 seconds ago

Yes even the "collect the cap" ones have to provide a free alternate method of entry.

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