StillAlive comments on 'People Enjoy Surprises' — Valve Is Trying to Dismiss New York's Counter-Strike Loot Box Lawsuit

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[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against the company, which claims loot boxes in its games such as Counter-Strike 2 promote illegal gambling and threaten to addict children.

Both CS and TF2 are rated M. Children shouldn't be playing them in the first place.🤷‍♂️

to deem loot boxes illegal gambling, because doing so would mean the likes of baseball cards, Happy Meal toys, and even Labubu blind boxes would be considered gambling, too.

You know what, do it. Make it illegal. Fuck MTG and Pokemon card collectors. 🥳🥳🥳

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, hockey and baseball cards used to be fine, then they became speculative assets.

Now, you have YouTube videos of kids opening packs and talking about how much they're worth.

It's fucking gambling. I did some work for that industry, 80% of sales were from addicts. I'm talking about people spending thousands a week on baseball/basketball/football cards. People openly talked about it in the industry as gambling. I've personally seen the numbers.

It's fucking gambling.

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