This is interesting, as someone who's never played a game with loot boxes or anything like them. Hmm--I guess MTG qualifies, but the secondary market is robust enough for it not to matter or for it to feel fun rather than forced. Howeverhttps://twitter.com/legalinspire/status/943166567348654081 …
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The real fun comes with bans on gambling or heavy regulation thereof Gambling bans originated as antiblasphemy measures per _Religion and the Decline of Magic_, and like antiprostitution statutes somehow survived the withering of blue laws generally
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Tbqh on reflection I don't see a compelling policy case for banning games with gambling. Woh dang your game requires massive repeat payments to play? And you don't enjoy this? There are other games my dude!
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Part of the problem is that these games are marketed to minors. To me that's the biggest issue.
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The other major issue is that the best argument for regulated gambling is that it makes the game transparent. The paytable is right there on the game when you play a slot machine. The same is not true of lootbox systems.
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My daughter collects these: https://www.blindboxes.com/product/yummy-breakfast-keychain-series-blind-box/ … You will note that even with these, the paytable is on the box.
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In my mind, it is a justifiable exercise of state regulatory power to say that if you're going to take people's money as a wager stake, you have to tell them the odds of winning.
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Incidentally, if you were to set a Nevada slot machine to the kind of payout % of your average video game lootbox system, you would go to prison. Those things make bar-back eight-liners look honest.
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HM I have a lot of feelings about laws restricting minors due to some commitments to Past Eigenrobot and I'm really mixed on that point, but mandating transparency seems like a no-brainer.
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