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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 to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49748743

The loot box ban will go into effect in March.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I understood your point, I just don't agree. There's a fundamental difference in how it psychologically affects people, and your insistence that lootboxes aren't that bad kinda just lends credence to my point.

Let's not pretend either of us has any influence at all over what becomes law. Our stupid debate will certainly never affect a damn thing regardless. If I was writing laws, it'd be a very different place and general and I'm sure you wouldn't like most of my ideas. I can complain all I want, nobody is listening anyway.

Regardless, I've enjoyed the spirited debate and you're certainly entitled to your opinion!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Hah. I like the witch trial logic there. "If you like this thing it proves the thing is evil brainwashing because nobody would like it otherwise". May as well dunk them in water and see if they drown.

    The thing is, this sort of online panic has absolutely had an influence. The industry has moved away from lootboxes, even in cases where they make sense (see the Marvel Snap example) because they've become terrible PR, and the panic has led to multiple countries exploring new regulations or applying existing gambling regulations, whether that makes sense or not.

    So you don't have a lot of influence, but you definitely have some, and the unintended consequences of that influence lead to things like Brazil being on track to roll out invasive age checking procedures in gaming spaces without getting much pushback from the wider international gaming public because they're all too excited about the anti-loot box lip service they've added on the side.

    So maybe don't let yourself too off the hook. There was a slippery slope here and you are one of many gleefully going "weeee!" on the way down. Your aggressive stance here sure had more of an impact than all the "told you sos" I'm about to send if and when Steam starts requiring people provide some type of personal ID to log in.

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