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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by vogt on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:49PM (#33687339)
The gaming industry has moved away primarily because legislation has been getting passed in countries like Japan and China forbidding lootboxes in games. It's been a hot topic off and on in Congress and Parliaments around the world for a few years now and I assume game developers are (of course) skittish about it.

To your point about cosmetic-only though, that still exists. Rocket League, which I play regularly, gives out boxes you open and get a random cosmetic with varying degrees of rarity. You can get a net larger amount of these cosmetic boxes by paying for the Rocket Pass premium (something like $10 a season). But the loot boxes only ever contain skins, wheels, etc.

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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by fomine3 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:10PM (#33687479)
There's still no law for lootboxes in Japan (but have some regulation by industry) so many gacha games still being released. Discussion at congress is minor AFAIK. I suspect that China also haven't completely forbid lootboxes at least, since they also still operate such games. (But anyway China strictly manages releasing games)
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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by b4je7d7wb on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:25PM (#33687573)
Netherlands is perhaps the furthest in the process. I think at least lost ark is not available in steam for dutch users.
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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by l3uwin on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:15AM (#33689434)
You know you went too far when the dutch are looking at you thinking 'hmm that's too much gambling' from their boat casino

And they're correct lmao

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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by braymundo on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:23AM (#33690567)
Correct. Diablo Immortal was not even launched here because of this.
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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by p1necone on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:01PM (#33687420)
The Overwatch lootboxes were purely cosmetic too. The Call of Duty ones weren't. The new CoD battle pass isn't entirely cosmetic either, but the worst it does is give you faster access to weapons that you could have unlocked through regular gameplay for free.
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Re:Cigars, Booze, Money: How a Lobbying Blitz Made Sports Be... by AtlasBarfed on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:22PM (#33687920)
Why isn't it, and the atrocious conduct of pat to win games a bigger deal here? Chest china has more sense and integrity than our government
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