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Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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The loot box ban will go into effect in March.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Lootboxes as currently used in Overwatch 2 is fine. You simply get them for playing. And that's that.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That means they're not "sold"

Semantics make a difference

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