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Loot Boxes are like Pokemon cards, you buy a pack, don't know what you're going to get, and then you can trade or sell them. Banning this is just preventing kids from developing a proper risk/reward instinct later in life.
You can not trade or sell the contents of lootboxes.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waOkwIpWxg [video][18m]
I think this is good, but also it will change things very little (parents will skip the age verification screen).
Which, frankly, is fine. Regulations like this are great to help guide parents, but ultimately it is the parent's responsibility to decide what is fine and not fine for their child. I wouldn't agree with a parent that gets their kid into loot boxes, but that's their choice. And if a parent is blindly skipping an age verification screen for their kid without figuring out why that age verification is there in the first…
Loot Boxes are like Pokemon cards, you buy a pack, don't know what you're going to get, and then you can trade or sell them. Banning this is just preventing kids from developing a proper risk/reward instinct later in life.
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With the rise of online storefronts and employees who just don't care I beg to differ.
Differ all you want. No child will bankrupt a family at a trading card game store. These are physical goods paid in bulk with provisioning and there are laws for returning them. Another point of contention is the randomness of packs. The way you play is: You save up to buy the entire set of boosters and already get almost all cards you need for competitive or fun play. The rest you need to trade for or buy individual…
Let the child use a separate debit card? Bank cards are personal and work as an authentication factor.
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What are "kids"? Age of majority is all over the place, there's no hard and fast rule for when adolescents become adults, every society on the planet has a different take on it. For example, you can get married at 16 in the UK, but can't drive until 17 (it's not a priority as we didn't build so many car-dependent hellscapes), and you can buy alcohol at 18 or be given it with a meal by your parents at younger ages, be…
> but not the same level of destructive activity as gambling for cash ... are you sure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_odds_betting_terminal
Buying Pokemon cards in the hope of getting a specific rare one is a pretty niche form of addiction. Compared to walking into a shop, putting in £100 and getting nothing back, then another £100, then another, in the hope of getting £500... it's a lot more accessible, and can easily wipe out your life savings.
Perhaps it's like arguing "which is more lethal, a gun or a screwdriver?", and you're arguing on a technicality that if you're really persistent then they're equally lethal as you can get the job done with a screwdriver, but you're overlooking how much easier the gun makes it.
By all means game developers deserve to make a living... However, if they're going to operate a casino, they should be treated and licensed as such.
Do they let 16 year olds gamble in casinos in Europe? Odd to ban it for kids but only some kids.
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Needing a secondary market to cash out is not the same as the vendor providing both the game of chance and the winnings. You can sell/trade MTG and Pokemon cards, but that doesn't make them "casinos"
Doesn't stop people from treating them as one, with all the corresponding issues. TBH I think a comparison with CCGs should make people question the CCG model itself, which tends to get far too easy a pass in most people's minds.