Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

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• mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As long as parents don’t give a fuck, this won’t change much.

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Furthermore, this only theoretically protects kid, but fuck people with grambling addictions i guess…

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    • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kids won’t be able to play without stealing their parents ID or pointing a camera at a low res model in a web browser

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.

  Since when is that something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Does this include ever mob in an RPG that drops random loot? Like all of World of Warcraft?

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Good

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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This won’t affect Germany I think. We use the cursed USK bullshit…

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Germany has enacted similar measures before the PEGI implemented theirs.

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AFAIK the USK only gives them a 12+ rating, not 16

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wasnt the idea to completely ban loot boxes and real money gambling like that?

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