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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by synu on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:15AM (#31631166)
Isn’t that mission accomplished from the EU perspective, though? Whether they don’t care very much and left, or whether they care a lot and left, as long as the level of caring was sufficient that they were forced to take the gambling for kids stuff with them that seems like a win. The alternative is to not care at all and keep selling in the EU anyway even if it’s made illegal, which seems unlikely at the level of scale it’s happening today.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by Aerroon on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:30AM (#31631300)
Because I like playing some of these games. I don't want to be stuck with the 5 games that are officially EU approved. Asking for this kind of regulation is basically asking for legally mandated region-locks for online games. It's back to being a second class player in another region, where technically you're not allowed to play via VPN and you might get randomly banned.

Also, it's not about the children. Children don't make their own money - they only have money that parents give them. Even if these games banned children from playing them, a lot of the people complaining about it still wouldn't stop. The problem for them is that they can't make their friends stop playing these games, so they want the government to stop them instead.

I don't like when games monetize stuff like Diablo Immortal does. I hate it. But I'm certain that when legislation does arrive it'll be broad enough that other stuff gets caught up in it and the people advocating for it will just shrug their shoulders and go "lol i didn't care about games anyway".

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by synu on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:29AM (#31631859)
If it went like how nicotine and cigarettes stopped being marketed to kids, I’d be ok with that. Adults did complain that their right to smoke candy flavored cigarettes was being taken away, or that kids don’t have money for cigarettes anyway, but I think it was a net benefit. I do understand the point you’re making though and bad regulation certainly exists.
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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by eurasiantiger on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:11PM (#31634906)
Did it really stop, or did it just take another form?
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