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Key principles on in-game virtual currencies | European Commission (commission.europa.eu)
submitted 1 week ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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Quoting someone from another site:

Some key things:

  1. The real world price must be displayed for the item, not just the currency (ie, an outfit should say $24 next to it, not just 2800 vbucks).

  2. Currencies must be exactly matchable to purchase amounts, so no 1000 point packages for 800 point items to leave 200 extra

It’s nice to see some government documents that genuinely understand how these currencies are being used in manipulative ways.

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[–] imecth@fedia.io -1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The gaming industry is gonna fight this every step of the way. There's gonna be lobbying, kicking and screaming; and no it's certainly not as simple as "follow the rules or get banned". First off because you can't just ban games by flicking your fingers, there's thousands of games and dozens of distributing platforms. Secondly because the goal isn't to remove them from the market but to get them to play ball.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean they play ball when they are disabled until they comply with the law, no?

Similar to the loot case law change (belgium/netherlands iirc). Or was that handled differently?

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you look at how the EU is handling the Digital Markets Act - it's gonna be fines.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

so lootboxes were never diabled?

Pretty sure I've heard users from these regions mention that they had their shops completely unavailable in certain games

But fines wouldnt be an issue here either to me, maybe Im missing something

[–] imecth@fedia.io -1 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure I've heard users from these regions mention that they had their shops completely unavailable in certain games

Those were local measures that were not handled by the European Union.